Dell Road Trees

[Jock Strap]

Do you not think there is a possible hidden agenda too for some within the Coucil?

Fell the trees in Kirkland and you have a top site for housing development.

[EMDEE]

If any of these trees do get felled it won't be something for the residents of Dell Road to "crow" about.

[ionnsaigh]

Try using a dummy bird of prey. Sit it on the tree - the rooks the people and the trees - have all certain rights, these rights don't have to be antagonistic. just a thought.

[Trapper]

I'd like to point out I'm not in favour of felling the trees, just thought I should put in what the real problems with the rooks were.

[Beachcomber]

I doubt a dummy raptor would do much to deter Rooks from nesting in the trees.

Being Corvids they're very intelligent birds and would soon put paid to a plastic Peregrine.

[spangles]

I'd like to point out I'm not in favour of felling the trees, just thought I should put in what the real problems with the rooks were.

As you can likely guess neither do I want to see them removed. In built up areas rooks are a "nusiance". Not sure what the answer is. As beachcomber says they are highly intelligent but I'm sure if the humans want rid of them they will come up with something the rooks have no defence against

"Mon the Rooks"!!

S

[EMDEE]

I can give an example of a problem caused by birds nesting from my own experience. This was not rooks but crows, their cousins.

If you are eating your dinner at the moment, read no further.

A good number of years ago we had a gas fire. In the spring, along came a pair of crows and decided that the unused chimney pot would be an excellent place to build a nest. We were not aware that this had happened until the nest was established.

Some months later, in the summer, we had a plague of bluebottles in the house, and eventually noticed some of them appeared to be emerging from the flap below the gas fire.

As the gas fire needed to come out to investigate this we called the Gas Board.

When the fire came out, the maggot-riddled rotten carcase of one of the adult crows was lying in the fireplace. It must have fallen down the chimney and got stuck.

As I said, hope nobody was eating their dinner.

(I am still against cutting down trees.)

[ionnsaigh]

Aye so am a

[spangles]

I think I'll move to here.....not

http://www.rooks.org.uk/

S

[petewick]

Actually this has been an ongoing problem for years and it's not about birds sh*tting on cars.

The real problems are the constant clogging up of the guttering and downpipes of the buildings in Dell road due to the Sh*t and nesting materials that the rooks seem to love dropping on the roofs of the houses. This has lead to a fair amount of damage to some houses due to flooding. I also know of one person who had to put up the rain cover on her childs buggy when leaving the house cos the rooks had sh*t on her baby! That is a horrible experience and possibly the risk to pedestrians they were on about.

And anyway they weren't there before the buildings most of which habe been there for over a hundred years!

Thank feck cows don't fly!!!!!

[Jock Strap]

Slightly surprised that Councillor Kelly's letter in the courier today suggesting that the diseased trees should be removed and bird-scaring measures could be deployed to remove the birds from its location once and for all.

It is good to see an update from one of our Councillors appear in the Courier and provides, for once, an update to the people on their views. (perhaps another thread?)

However, is it representative of the electorate of South Kintyre or a personal view or that of Dell Road residents?

Strikes me that if the council were to introduce such suggested measures then the people of Kilkerran could ask for the same measures to be introduced??

[spangles]

bird-scaring measures could be deployed to remove the birds from its location once and all.

Och I suppose he had to say something. Wonder if he reads this forum?

Mr Kelly where do you think the rooks will go when you scare them out of their home.

S

[Hello]

Not to my neck of the woods I hope