2nd Email To Sean Brind regarding Bird Droppings...

In response to your comments regarding 'free slew' and also regarding the measures Sean Brind has agreed to set up with the council, I emailed Sean again:

Hi Sean,

I understand one of our members has contacted the council regarding the crane positioning/bird droppings and they have forwarded on the response from the council to us. The councils reponse is published on the blog: www.cityislandleeds.blogspot.com.

In it, it is mentioned that the council have discussed with yourself, putting in decoy devices to dissuade the birds from roosting on the cranes in the first place – so thanks for proactively helping. If you could keep us up to date with what you have done, we can relay this to the others via email and the blog.

Also in response to the bird droppings and the cranes needing to be in ‘free slew’, we received several (some might say, cynical) queries on this, namely, if the cranes are left to face in to the prevailing wind,

1. Why do they never face the same way as one another?

2. Can they not be fixed in place if only light winds are forecast?

3. Why do none of the cranes across the whole skyline of Leeds seem to face in a uniform direction of the wind?

4. Why are both cranes always facing the same way the next morning as they were the previous night?

For full comments, see the blog.

Cheers Sean, and thanks again,
CIRG