Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 06:25:05 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Mike Callahan Subject: Re: Conowingo Dam Noisemakers MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Larry, If any one talks to the Dam operator, suggest they hire a falconer to take care of the pigeon problem. This control option will be a bit more selective in what it chases away. Naturally, Mike Callahan On Thu, 24 Feb 2000 17:06:19 -0500 "1220@ras3" writes: > Greetings: > > Members of the Harford Bird Club have received unverified > information that the operator of Conowingo has plans to install or > is installing noisemaking cannons to "scare away" certain > birds such as pigeons, crows, etc away from the buildings at > the dam. Obviously scaring one kind of bird will end up scaring > many birds. Apparently the droppings from the birds have damaged > or destroyed roofing on the buildings. The source of this > information is apparently a newspaper reporter in the Lancaster, PA > area. > > I sent out an APB to several members of the Harford Chapter to > see if anyone here has heard of this and have received no response. > > Has anyone associated with MDOsprey received any information that > would confirm or deny the "noisemakers." If so would you please > reply directly to me or if the above information is correct would > you please make a general post to MDOsprey. > > If this does end up being a fact, then MOS and other > organizations should attempt to do something about it. > > Thanks > Larry Fry > Pylesville, Harford County > jlfry@netfox.net > > ======================================================================To > leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com > with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey > ======================================================================= ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================