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The Phoenix wailer is made by Phoenix Agritech here in Debert. We use
wailers at work from them as well. We have a wastewater treatment plant,
and take waters contaminated with oil and glycols which are biologically
treated at our plant to remove the contaminants. We ran into the problem of
cormorants getting into our ponds and being covered in oils, so we purchased
wailers to deter the cormorants and other birds from our ponds.
Maria Forman
Debert NS
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From: naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca [mailto:naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca]
On Behalf Of James W. Wolford
Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2011 7:51 PM
To: NatureNS
Cc: Randy Milton; Jim Wolford
Subject: [NatureNS] evening crows pre-roosting and roosting locales
Although the trees on Boot Island off ne. Grand Pre are rapidly being lost
to erosion of the seaward side (rate is being measured by CWS as they do
their surveys of colonial birds every other May?), long ago the crows
abandoned their long-time roost on Boot and many of them moved to downtown
Kentville and the area around Kentville Hospital (Valley Regional). The
town had a difficult job of dealing with them, and the numbers quoted were
often "40,000", which happens to be the maximum that Randy Milton counted on
Boot Island using good survey techniques (which, as far as I know, were
never used for the Kentville crows). Someone in Truro? had invented and
marketed the Phoenix Wailer, which was designed to play recorded calls of
whatever to scare away pest wildlife, such as various birds etc. from grapes
in vineyards now. The only trick was that the Wailer would result in the
crows changing their roost by a few or several blocks, so that the Wailer
would have to follow them around to continue to be effective. I well recall
the massive amounts of guano from the pre-roosting and roosting crows in
downtown Kentville near the movie theatre in those years.
After Kentville, I recall the crows seemed to use Coldbrook for several
years, but I think most recently many of them have been in Berwick (and
Aylesford too?).
Who can add to or correct what I have written?
Cheers from Jim in Wolfville
Begin forwarded message:
From: andy dean <aadean@ns.sympatico.ca>
Date: November 3, 2011 6:18:29 PM ADT
To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca
Subject: [NatureNS] Crows evening flight path
Reply-To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca
We may be outdated with our observations, but the Valley crows used to head
to Boot Island near Grand Pre to roost.
We live on the western edge of kentville and notice all the evening crows
now flying in a westerley (approx) direction.
Where do they roost these days? Anybody?
Andy and Lelia Dean
86 Baden Powell Drive
Kentville, N.S.
(902) 678-6243
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