This
delightful photogenic subject was left on a park bench near City
Hall. This isn’t the first time I’ve seen bags like this,
they’re all over. Does Plattsburgh City have a bagged dogshit
pickup service? Is that why someone feels entitled to leave such
items behind? Picking up after your dog doesn’t mean skipping over
proper disposal. Health hazard, anyone? Time to run a PSA or news
articles about the problem and jacking up the fines for lazy dog
owners.
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?
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
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.
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.
