243. Clinging to Life
Cliff Swallows building a nest on the bare face of the hotel walls were clinging to the bricks and masonery.
The hotel manager looked sullen. I explained I was happy to get a Life Bird Photograph, but he wanted to know how to get rid of the birds : )). Animal control and an exterminator had explained to him that the nesting birds were protected and can't be removed without a permit.
The manager has a problem. As I walked around the large hotel, I stopped counting at about three hundred nests in the early stages of construction. More new birds seem to arrive each day, he said. A massive colony was in its beginning stages,one that has singled out this hotel (none of the adjacent hotels seemed affected.). He "coulda/shoulda" been proactive, before the birds started their nest-building. I explained he might be able to get a permit for at least some of the areas like around the main entrance, claiming health concerns, and that after the summer many of the birds may leave giving him a chance to "start over."
Life bird photograph #243
243. Clinging to Life
Cliff Swallows building a nest on the bare face of the hotel walls were clinging to the bricks and masonery.
The hotel manager looked sullen. I explained I was happy to get a Life Bird Photograph, but he wanted to know how to get rid of the birds : )). Animal control and an exterminator had explained to him that the nesting birds were protected and can't be removed without a permit.
The manager has a problem. As I walked around the large hotel, I stopped counting at about three hundred nests in the early stages of construction. More new birds seem to arrive each day, he said. A massive colony was in its beginning stages,one that has singled out this hotel (none of the adjacent hotels seemed affected.). He "coulda/shoulda" been proactive, before the birds started their nest-building. I explained he might be able to get a permit for at least some of the areas like around the main entrance, claiming health concerns, and that after the summer many of the birds may leave giving him a chance to "start over."
Life bird photograph #243