Bird Scarer

[Ollie]

Originally Posted by Meta menardi

I am so sorry. I shall never make personal remarks again.

Please don't worry about it, I aren't offended at all. Would take more than a remark like that to bother me.
Roger

[witham]

Another problem we have in our area is fireworks, we are in an area that has many trees and there's a large country house type hotel which at weekends cater for weddings, assorted parties etc which now can't seem to be complete without a mahusive firework display quite late into the evening, I often wonder what the birds think as they must be at roost. I went to a garden plant display/sale one there Sunday morning and overheard some people, who were guests at the hotel following just such a party, moaning about the dawn chorus waking them up and I couldn't resist saying 'it's their payback time, they (the birds) were woken up by the noise last night so they're just returning the favour', and I quickly moved on

[stripee]

Ha. I least we don't get many fireworks. But the bird scarer is still banging away, and at night he has got machinery on that sounds like a helicopter! But they are extending themselves right over the opposite hill as a family, a new house has just been put up in a field, and the hedges have all been taken out long ago. There are 3 or 4 farms in this area that think they own the place, and this is one of them, so there is little to be done However, I looked at the NFU code of practice for audible bird scarers and this farmer isn't following any of them. 1. It shouldn't be fired more than 4 times an hour, his is still every 10 mins and before that about every 5/7 mins. 2. Not on Sundays, ha ha all over Christmas, New Year and every single day! 3. Liaise with neighbours - no. I just wonder why it needs to be on for so long, and the birds will want to nest soon. But I don't really want to be the one to go down the Council Environmental noise route, rather someone else did it.

[witham]

A farmer near us puts an old van or car at the side of one of his fields which he moves about every so often, I don't know if it does any good, perhaps making the birds think there must be a nasty human about who might shoot them, he's done it for a few years now so it must be a bit of a deterrent.

[stripee]

hello witham, thank you for your reply. I'm sure there are other ways to scare birds. But anyway today I spoke to the council and agreed that this farmer will get sent a copy of the NFU bird scarer code!

[Meta menardi]

Originally Posted by stripee

hello witham, thank you for your reply. I'm sure there are other ways to scare birds. But anyway today I spoke to the council and agreed that this farmer will get sent a copy of the NFU bird scarer code!

That sounds like an excellent solution, the community through the council gives him advice from his own group. That is joined up thinking and working,no real conflicts, just peer pressure.