Guernsey scares off the birds
30th June 1984, Page 22
30th June 1984
Page 22
Page 22, 30th June 1984
— Guernsey scares off the birds
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Starlings have been given the bird at St Peter Port bus station in Guernsey. Every morning the pavements have had to be washed after visits by thousands of migrants from, it is believed, Scandinavia and Eastern Europe.
They have apparently been persuaded to go elsewhere by a simple device called the Hummline. It is a polypropylene tape, sold in 500-metre reels by Neil Battersby, of Truro, which air currents cause to emit vibrations at a very low frequency. These create confusion and fear among our feathered friends, which push off smartly without leaving a forwarding address.
Hummline, I am assured, is succeeding where tape recordings of the starling's alarm calls, hanging tin foil and a model peregrine falcon have failed.