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« Reply #15 on: September 23, 2018, 23:18:55 »

... and is utterly frustrating to get fixed between the major bus operator, landlord and contract cleaning crew.

Well, it is a sh*t job!
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« Reply #16 on: September 23, 2018, 23:21:26 »

Wild guess for 3.

Bath Bus Station?

Yes, exactly ...

Wikipedia tells me.
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The new Bath Bus Station opened on Sunday 7 June 2009, at a cost of £14 million

The pigeon ingress is utterly frustrating.  In recent months the destination boards above the bays have been fixed and the birds can now only congregate of the emergency roof access ladder, so the problem is now concentrated in this area ... and is utterly frustrating to get fixed between the major bus operator, landlord and contract cleaning crew.

I think I mentioned elsewhere that certain parts of the 'new' Reading are looking the same.....  Tongue
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« Reply #17 on: September 23, 2018, 23:23:38 »

Time to get the birds of prey in.
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« Reply #18 on: September 23, 2018, 23:27:00 »

Time to get the birds of prey in.

Has been discussed!   Not sure of outcome of said discussion!
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« Reply #19 on: September 24, 2018, 02:07:48 »

It works in Bristol's Millennium Square, the two birds of prey kites flying over the @Bristol, sorry the renamed @Bristol building, now We The Curious.
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« Reply #20 on: September 24, 2018, 07:48:45 »

We have real Red Kites and Buzzards flying over all the time here and we still have pigeons!
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« Reply #21 on: September 24, 2018, 08:09:22 »

Send for Tom Lehrer !

https://youtu.be/yhuMLpdnOjY
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« Reply #22 on: September 24, 2018, 08:47:20 »

It works in Bristol's Millennium Square, the two birds of prey kites flying over the @Bristol, sorry the renamed @Bristol building, now We The Curious.

Works at Paddington too

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« Reply #23 on: September 24, 2018, 09:42:31 »

...but it doesn't work in Teignmouth

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« Reply #24 on: September 24, 2018, 10:27:25 »

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Re kites and buzzards don't you need Perigine Falcons to catch pigeons. The ICE 3s of the bird world
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« Reply #25 on: September 24, 2018, 10:44:18 »

Sparrowhawk will take out a pigeon given the chance.
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« Reply #26 on: September 24, 2018, 11:00:45 »

...but it doesn't work in Teignmouth




But that decoy looks like its fixed to a fixed pole, the kites in Bristol are free flying kites and there of two of them in close proximity to each other.
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« Reply #27 on: September 24, 2018, 11:11:41 »

0 Ireland

Correct ... but can anyone be a bit more specific?
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« Reply #28 on: September 24, 2018, 12:05:03 »

That clock looks like DART green to me, so somewhere in the Dublin area? Although wasn't aware that DART has 10 car trains.
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« Reply #29 on: September 24, 2018, 12:40:37 »

0 = Dublin Heuston through platform
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