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Cabbie's plea to Swansea city centre visitors: 'Don't feed birds'

Thursday, October 06, 2011

Taxi drivers in Swansea are in a flap after claiming people feeding pigeons and seagulls are turning their rank into a scene from Hitchcock's The Birds.

Fed up Colin Bevan claims the people feeding the feathered foes are causing them to flock to the taxi pick-up point next to St Mary's Church in the city centre.

In scenes reminiscent of the Alfred Hitchcock-directed 1963 horror film, taxi drivers said pigeons and seagulls regularly pooped on their cars and gathered in such numbers they scared the public.

Mr Bevan said: "As soon as people start feeding all these birds flock to the floor.

"We are on to them all the time because when they feed them they are right by the side of the taxi rank and the birds do their business all over our cabs. You have to wash it off or else it will damage the paint work."

Mr Bevan said the number of birds was scaring people in the busy city centre street.

"We get a lot of people who are intimidated by this large frenzied flock of birds," he said.

Mr Bevan said he caught one man creating a feeding frenzy next to the rank as a woman passerby screamed out for him to stop, on film.

"I have filmed it and one poor woman was screaming at him to stop but he was just laughing at her."

Mr Bevan said he and his fellow taxi drivers were at a loss over what to do to make the situation better.

He said: "I have spoken to the council about it and they say that there is no rule that stops people from feeding pigeons and seagulls.

"They are becoming so familiar with people feeding them that they are attacking people walking past who happen to be eating food."

A spokesman for Swansea Council said: "We don't have huge problems in the city centre with seagulls.

"However, when people in the city centre feed birds such as seagulls or pigeons this can make matters worse.

"We would urge city centre visitors to avoid feeding birds if they can."

This is not the first time seagulls have had bad press in the city.

This summer people complained about seagulls pooping on them and ruining their clothes.

And Simon Griffiths said he was so fed up with seabirds in the beer garden of his Cross Keys pub that he was going to bring in a falconer to dispatch natural justice.

He said at the time: "We have a big problem with seagulls coming down into our beer garden, looking for scraps of food, not to mention the mess they leave behind on the pavement and cars."

Source; http://www.thisissouthwales.co.uk/Cabbi ... story.html

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Brummie Cabbie.

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Bring your cat out to work then.

Let the cats roam the rank!!!

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Brummie Cabbie.

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FFs It is a seaport City and a knowledgeable councillor states that they do not have a problem Oh the lies they tell

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YAWN'S

It's nature, why human's think they have rights over the world of nature is beyond me, if someone looks upon our winged friends as pests then they have something wrong with them imo.

I do not think that you would see it in the same light when they seem to sh!t twice their body weight over your cab, if it hits the windscreen it sure can go a long way.............P.S do not turn on your wipers

PPS. rats with wings, as pretty as they are.

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Have they never heard of Pidgeon pie they should be glad of large numbers of the vermin mear their rank free meat !

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lack of modern legislation is the iceberg sinking the titanic of the transport sector

A nice Sparrow Hawk or a Goss Hawk will clear them in no time. I'll take a trip to Swansea and clear them but I come at a price.

Here's some Pictures of my Sparrow Hawk, she's in her 2nd season and as you can see she's good at her job at such a young age.

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They carp on my car too, I just look at it that they are birds and they do that sort of thing, Seagull got me on the shoulder one time, been eating berries by the look of things, you just gotta live and let live imo.

Pigeons and Seagulls are classed as vermin and carry a host of police with them..

1. Histoplasmosis is a respiratory disease that may be fatal. It results from a fungus growing in dried Pigeon droppings.

2. Candidiasis is a yeast or fungus infection spread by pigeons. The disease affects the skin, the mouth, the respiratory system, the intestines and the urogenital tract, especially the vagina. It is a growing problem for women, causing itching, pain and discharge.

3. Cryptococcosis is caused by yeast found in the intestinal tract of pigeons. The illness often begins as a pulmonary disease and may later affect the central nervous system. Since attics, cupolas, ledges, schools, offices, warehouses, mills, barns, park buildings, signs, etc. are typical roosting and nesting sites, the fungus is apt to found in these areas.

4. Salmonellosis often occurs as "food poisoning" and can be traced to pigeons. The disease bacteria are found in Pigeon droppings; dust from droppings can be sucked through ventilators and air conditioners, contaminating food and cooking surfaces in restaurants, homes and food processing plants.


I don't call them nature I call them police.

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Believe me, don't get Mercury X2

Anything that flys and sh1ts is vermin as far as Im concerned...Hours spent cleaning cars just to have some manky arsed herring gull crapping its caustic waste all over it really gets my birse up.

Damn birds should be culled in towns...

Then just around this time of year ya get all the elderberry eating Country Birds Crapping what looks like Blackcurrent yoghurt all over the car as well.......and on the Wifes Smalls...well..reasonably small, as well.

Who said Natures Wonderful??