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carly:
--- Quote from: Kinderchick on March 24, 2011, 19:01 ---. The news report indicated that Manitoba Conservation suggested the only solution would be to shoot the birds. Too bad. :( But it doesn't sound as if there is anything else that can be done to preserve this historic site. :-\
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If Manitoba Conservation thinks the only answer is to kill something..then they need to drop the 'conservation' from their name.
It's a building...wood and materials..nothing of substance like an animal with a beating heart and a warm touch. No offense but memories are in the heart, the mind and the soul not enshrined in wood or brick or mortar. Pretty sure the guy in the sandals was opposed to buildings like that and in fact I"m certain there's some lengthy discussion about people missing his whole point by thinking that a building or a spire is what matters in life.
Kinderchick:
Heard about your church and the damage the Pileated Woodpeckers are doing to the spire on the CBC news while I was driving home from work today, sami. The news report indicated that Manitoba Conservation suggested the only solution would be to shoot the birds. Too bad. :( But it doesn't sound as if there is anything else that can be done to preserve this historic site. :-\
sami:
--- Quote from: photosbydennis on March 23, 2011, 19:49 ---Pileated Woodpeckers can be most destructive, this one was found a few years back just off Osborne near Morley and did mager damage to the tree at the back lane. They are about the size of a big crow if that helps.
http://www.pbase.com/photosbydennis/image/56218295
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Woody Woodpecker! And I really do believe they cause such damage just because they can! Not for lack of anywheres else to go - there are several acres of untouched bush behind the church for them to work on. Except that maybe they have and nobody has gone back there to check. Mourning doves and merlins are much nicer birds.
photosbydennis:
Pileated Woodpeckers can be most destructive, this one was found a few years back just off Osborne near Morley and did mager damage to the tree at the back lane. They are about the size of a big crow if that helps.
http://www.pbase.com/photosbydennis/image/56218295
Kinderchick:
--- Quote from: sami on March 22, 2011, 15:55 ---...these particular birds just took a fancy to the church. I doubt it had anything to do with their religious affiliation!
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LOL, Sami! ;)
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