Labor Day Decoration For City Hall

 

The Dirty Diaper Looks Bad On The Sidewalk...

 

So let's kick it over on the lawn.

What If?

For argument's sake let's pretend health officials determine the corona virus can be transmitted by crow shit.  Would that motivate Plattsburgh City to attack the problem at the source, i.e., driving away the crows?

Sisyphean

PLATTSBURGH CITY, NY -- 3/5/20

Yesterday city workers sprayed and wiped down this Trinity Park bench to remove crow shit. But as usual the crows returned last night and sat in the tree above, crapping all over the clean slate. The other benches were wiped down but they are also accumulating crow shit. Attacking the symptom but not the cause. There are ways to deal with the crows: http://writog.blogspot.com/2020/02/crow-crap_6.html

Scrub Time

PLATTSBURGH CITY, NY -- 3/4/20

I feel sorry for these two men stuck with cleaning off the crow shit splattered all over the benches in Trinity Park. This only attacks the symptom, not the cause. There are measures that can be taken to control the crow problem. Until those measures are taken city employees will be called out again to scrub down the latest carpet-bombings.

Let's Crow About Downtown

Someone told me I should leave "the poor crows alone."  I will if you will sit on this bench for fifteen minutes.

Crow Crap

They're back.

PLATTSBURGH CITY, NY -- 2/6/20

(C) 2020 Luke T. Bush

One night a taxi driver was sitting in his vehicle, waiting for his next call when something hit his roof. Silence. Then something else hit his roof. Again and again.

Nocturnal squirrels dropping nuts on his vehicle? No. It was a mob of crows perched in the tree above him, carpet-bombing with their crap as usual.

Last winter I reported on the problem, long stretches of sidewalks covered with the disgusting droppings. It was as bad as the chronic dogshit problem.

But like with dogshit Plattsburgh City has failed to address crows defecating on downtown. Of course the city has passed bans on fracking, plastic straws, and public smoking in wide open areas which all take precedence over animal scat.

Auburn, NY has earned the unenviable sobriquet Crow City. Crows have plagued the city for years but at least it takes action. In the evening exploding firecrackers drive away the pests.

There are options to deal with the crow problem. Just Google the keywords "crow deterrent" and a plethora of answers will pop up on the screen.

Maybe the city will cry "No money." Well there are some free options available, The video below can be downloaded, using hawk calls to drive off the black vexations.

Or how about a crow in distress recording? When a raucous gathering disturbed my sleep early in the morning I played the recording linked below with a boombox in an open window. Good riddance. No mobs have returned, just one solitary crow, so this seems to work.

https://archive.inside.iastate.edu/2009/1203/crowcall.mp3

I could go on but I'm not paid to do research for the city. There's no excuse to allowing another winter of splattered Corvus crap to adorn the city.