Pigeon deaths on Chanterlands Avenue railway bridge

John Fareham and John Abbott are working to resolve problems with pigeons being caught in the anti-pigeon netting on the Chanterlands Avenue railway bridge and dying there. We have received reports, and seen the evidence for ourselves, that pigeons have been finding their way in and, on being unable to find their way out, have become caught on the netting and died there. This is contrary to what we were after when we had the netting installed; the object of the exercise was originally to bar their path on to the beams where they were gathering, not to trap them. We have made representations on this matter at Wyke Area Committee but met with a less than ideally helpful response from my successor as Chairman. This is not, however, the end of the matter and we will take the matter up again with the officers until a satisfactory resolution has been found. To our way of thinking, the problem may well lie with the manner in which the anti-pigeon netting was installed in the first place; it should have been possible to fit the nets in such a way that the birds could not get round them, but this would appear not to have been done.