When is does NOT go to plan!

We always post news items of interest or our achievements – well this time it was, when it went wrong!

Honey the hawk (and she is) was working at a waste transfer station scaring Gulls that were trying to scavenge on the waste.

The Gulls have to be kept from the site due to the following reasons:

• Fouling  everything on site including machines and people.
• Disease transmission -after feeding on the rubbish they roost on reservoirs or playing fields etc
• Birdstrike risk – large flocks of gulls near an airfield are a danger

Last week she decided to go and sit on the top of the roof and find and old dead carcass to play with (probably carried thereby a gull or crow)

The only way to get her down was the kind staff at the waste station to take up her handler in a cherry picker so he could get close to her.

When they got up high she quite happily flew to the fist when called and enjoyed a ride down in the cherry picker!

Honey the hawk sitting on the roof.

Here she is at work

Note the Gulls are off…

Gulls Scared by hawk at dump

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