Wedgies and Peregrines to control Cockies?

["Dave Torr" <>]

Was a segment on the ABC news last night - there was one Wedgie and one
Peregrine - both trained with hood etc. Seems they will be placed on the
roof (presumably tethered) to scare the cockies away. Which raises all sorts
of ethical issues about keeping raptors in that manner.......

On 15/02/2008, Peter Shute <> wrote:
>
>  wrote on Thursday, 14 February 2008
> 11:30 PM:
>
>
> > Therefore trying to stop (by lethal methods) the cockies from helping
> > us is a doubly destructive act.
>
>
> I think the raptors will be caged - their presence is supposed to scare
> the birds away.  I have no problem with the cockies removing all 70,000
> bulbs though.
>
>
> Peter Shute
>
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