PS - Not that anything can be done about this, but if you are going to file a lunatic complaint, at least you should know where and who to file it too.

Well there is SOMETHING that can be done

By Gary C on Thu, 10/04/2018 - 3:21pm.

You are right that it's not a Boston thing, but they could put up those prickly metal spike things that do a nice job of keeping birds off ledges and such.

SOMETHING will be done

By John Costello on Thu, 10/04/2018 - 3:23pm.

Gawd gonna make it rain.

I've seen plenty of pigeons

By anon on Thu, 10/04/2018 - 3:39pm.

I've seen plenty of pigeons walk right through those.

No, you should call...

By Lisfnord on Fri, 10/05/2018 - 8:32am.

A real estate agent. And move somewhere like Kansas that won't have gulls.

Simple...

By anon on Thu, 10/04/2018 - 3:37pm.

Paint the bridge white, whitewash, whatever

Or flip that around, we could

By baustin on Thu, 10/04/2018 - 4:39pm.

Or flip that around, we could also feed the gulls bridge-colored fish. . . I'm just trying to think outside the box. Not really working for me today.

A serious question

By Waquiot on Thu, 10/04/2018 - 3:41pm.

I know someone here will know.

Would the bird droppings actually damage the structures? Or is this an aesthetic issue?

Bird guano is acidic

By roadman on Thu, 10/04/2018 - 3:46pm.

So, if left for a long period of time, it could damage the structure.

However, I suspect the next round of rain will wash everything away before that happens.

Bird poop has a lot of ammonia and salt in it - particularly fish eating bird poop - which combines with rainwater to form compounds that can eat concrete and structural steel (including that inside the shakers).

This was a factor in the bridge collapse in Minnesota.

https://www.hawkeye.ca/pest-bird-pigeon/60-toronto-bird-control/pest-and...

Actually, although corrosion and paint failure

By roadman on Thu, 10/04/2018 - 4:29pm.

on the I-35W bridge that could be attributed to bird guano was detected on recovered portions of the structure after the collapse, the NTSB determined that neither the corrosion nor the paint loss were factors in the collapse. Rather, the collapse was attributed to failure to do proper load analysis before undertaking both the construction work underway at the time and prior construction work, the failure of MNDot to take adequate remedial action to address defeciencies - including bowing gusset plates - identified in a 2003 inspection report, and the placement of heavy construction materials on the bridge itself without proper analysis beforehand.

Thanks to both of you

By Waquiot on Fri, 10/05/2018 - 9:31am.

Steel if figured, but I was spacing on concrete corrosion.

Citizen complaint of the day: Damn dirty seagulls

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