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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.
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.
