Exclusive- Breaking News
- 13 March 2009 17:5917282What building in Dover now boasts to have 9 yes nine Owls perched on its various rooftops?
As of today the White Cliff Experience building has 9 carved owls on its roof top in an attempt to prevent Gulls from nesting there.
Onlookers have been taking photographs thinking the owls were real.
News and pictures will probably be splashed all over next weeks edition of the local rags.
You heard it here first here from DF's very own twitcher.
C'mon you snappers submit an approriate pic to accompany this groud breaking news.
Marek
I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter) - 13 March 2009 21:3917299We have plastic owls on the roof of the building where I work. They don't do a thing, in fact the gulls nest up beside them as a windbreak. Why owls anyway? Are the Gulls supposed to feel intellectually inferior or just confused about the time of the day?
Mad! - 13 March 2009 22:2517302i have seen the fake owls be very effective in keeping pigeons away.
i have my doubts that sea gulls will be so intimidated though. - 13 March 2009 22:4117305Seagulls obviously read more than pigeons!
- 13 March 2009 22:5317308they pick up the skill quite easily, the oppportunity to read from discarded litter in my area, is like a 7 day a week college.
i am just waiting for the first one to engage me in conversation about the money supply from the bank of england. - 14 March 2009 00:0317318Howard, I had such an interesting dialogue the other day with just such a seagull, regarding the exchange rate and the european monetary policy. they are so very well read...................
- 14 March 2009 00:1517319Err I thought the gulld were white and greyish.I have to see a red one.
Marek
I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter) - 14 March 2009 00:1817323marek
do try to concentrate on getting your library books back on time, rather than discussing our feathered friends!! - 14 March 2009 03:2217335That's really funny. Love it. Plastic Scare-Owls. Brilliant. Stick that up your art installations, Folkestone!
More of the same please. Dover's funny. Dovorians are funny. We should make more of this. Humour is the key to regeneration, not po-faced politburo-cracy. - 14 March 2009 10:4817354
- 14 March 2009 14:2117361I worked at the White Cliffs Experience for a few months before it closed.
On rare occasions, we needed to venture out onto the roof to check on air conditioning condensers and stuff.
We kept an umbrella handy by the ladder to the roof in order to fend off attacks by irate seagulls defending their young.
Plastic Scare-Owls had not been invented in those days. - 14 March 2009 14:5317362This cheeky fellow popped in to see me last time I was in Dover!
- 14 March 2009 18:3617370Effective eh ?
Been nice knowing you :) - 14 March 2009 18:4817374it does seem the same principle as giving a cat a clockwork mouse to play with.
the cat just gives it a disdainful look then goes on the hunt for a real one to murder. - 14 March 2009 19:3217377I know I shouldn't laugh
great photo Paul! - 15 March 2009 08:5717390When i worked up the immigration removal centre, we were plagued with sea gulls and pigeons and were looking for ways to get rid of them.A local bird lover suggested putting artificial owls on the roof of one of the units.Rather than scare them off we seemed to get more.
