Country DRY CLEANING SAKE DAY DRV SERVICE HILLS SHOPPING CENTRE SECTION June Page Event likely to be annual Group happy with Show Although it had less lhan Tour months to plan and organize he show Georgetown Anglers Hunters Association is quite pleased with how Us first annual Sports turned out this weekend We 1 has as much time as we would like to hud for the planning but I m disappointed said Ass vicepresident I guess the one thing we wis to start planning a lot There were some ex hihilt rs who t because they did have enough notice Some exhibitors start planning for shows a year in advance he said the club decided upon holding the exhibition almost the spur of the moment He the reasoning or holding such a show was to see if it would indeed bit off the ground He said the he talked to during the three day show held he Arena quite receptive to the I talked to some of those exhibitors in the show and they disappointed he said The crowds were not that big but I hey were steady I ike I said I wasn t disappointed The Association will hold a meeting his week and the Sportsman Exhibition Is likely be the main subject discuss sold he ex peels the show to become on annual affair Georgetown Anders and Hunters Association member Jan Hosier equipped with a fancy ha I yearold Ryan it Turkey si pair of wild turkey By DAN RALPH Herald Sports lily lys had a deep love and respect for birds so is no surprise he has developed those aspects into a professional car The Glen Williams res dent operates Enl erprises which is a specializing In air port bird control owns birds of prey he uses at airports to scare off species like ring billed gulls and thus ensure safer runways ensuring safer airports He got involved in the project id 1970 after reading in a newspaper Toronto international Airport mow Lester Pearson was having problems with numbers of Snowy Owls Having arrived from Germany three Wakmann and a friend went lo see if they could catch a glimpse of the owl as they arc quite rare in We fishing Wood had the weekend show In wild getting close to a bull like this one would be quite difficult Vet when the a has been mounted touching it means gelling a chair for en yearold Aaron McLaughlin one and quite he said All of a sudden a member of he molnlcn ante crew up and shot the very bird we were watching That when we thought we had better do something so we got a license to trap and re move the birds We would band and release those we caught at Wolf I blind near Klnston From that point on has his level of involve ment with birds to the stage where he is at today He owns several falcons and other birds of prey and uses them lo keep airports free of Increasing numbers of birds He has birds CFB Trenton as well as Tor Before birds were in Trenton planes lost between 10 and engines a year Since 1979 only one plan engine has been lost birds don necessarily kill all ihe other birds In the area he said If my birds has say a rint billed gull and is still olive I re- leaso it It leaves the area quite quickly and his i way of telling other birds not to go into the iren he said In Tor re killing less gulls than would be kill by the planes If kit to reproduce indiserlmininily gulls and other birds can cause a dangerous to incoming planes They invariably can get in plane cog res which could result in i In addition to falcons Watermann uses owls golden eagles de pending on the situation example if Snowy Owls pidgeons and star lings are musing prob lems the presence of eagle will soon diminish the numbers in the spec Natural Resources lit of reviving the birds of prey papula I ions in He said their itlcmpts arc no very good ones They re letting pere grine faleons raised on quail go in downtown Toronto and Algonquin Park If a bird has been on quail it Is going to look for quail Where is there quail in Online- Besides there ire a lot of Goshawks in Algonquin Park and to them a peregrine is a welcomed breakfast Why don they re lease their birds in the Niagara Escarpment That s where Ihe last falcons were known to have bred he said Also letting them go on the Toronto Waterfront would be better loo be muse of the gull there Having been involved with birds for much of his life Watermann does hove some amazing stories about the I had one falcon at Toronto and a bald eagle tried to attack it The Peregrine held an to the eagle with its talons unlit help arrived didn believe it until I actually saw it The eagle now Is at the Mountsbert Wild life Centre proudly displays one fukons he has working for him the birds lo fend off other birds around airport BRAND NEW SAVE BE SURE YOURE DRIVING SAFELY DISC BRAKE PADS PRICE EXAMPLE AND TRUCKS RETAIL yourprice1500 SAVES1500 THIS WEEK ONLYI HALF PRICE DISC BRAKE PADS WITH ANV BRAKE OVERHAUL MENTION THIS YOUR QU SERVICE CENTRE