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[Mike K.]

Phew. That means the seagull nest was successfully moved. Via BC Housing:

 

JUNE 2025: While demolition of the buildings is underway, work has slowed due to the discovery of a seagull nest which we must ensure is not impacted. We are working with a biologist on this issue. This may have impacts on construction start. We will keep neighbours notified.

 

[HarrisonGreene]

Will those seagulls be allowed to move back in once the tower is complete?

[Mike K.]

Correct.

 

More info tonight at 11.

[Victoria Watcher]

We truly are an insane society.

Today in BC tens of thousands of birds died.

We don’t have a seagull shortage downtown. We were not addling the eggs just recently? Which is essentially seagull abortion, which I guess the left is all for.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 23 September 2025 - 07:19 AM.

[Citified.ca]

'Seagull nest-delayed' 20-storey BC Housing tower ready for construction start in 900-block of Pandora

https://victoria.cit...-block-pandora/

[amor de cosmos]

that's nothing:
 

As the composer, Carter Burwell, who is responsible for just about every single Coen brothers score, once explained: “I’ll do a high violin note that will echo the mosquito we had in the previous scene.” This orchestrated buzz of mosquito is used in the soundtrack at various moments before being drowned out by something more sonically seismic to match the fact that onscreen, the trivial issue of the mosquito has been trumped by a bigger problem for Fink.

Naturally, all of this was scripted well in advance by the meticulous screenplay crafters that the Coen brothers prove to be, but somehow a copy wormed its way to the “ASPCA or some animal thing,” Joel Coen told Jim Emerson. Adding: “They’d gotten hold of a copy of the script and wanted to know how we were going to treat the mosquitoes. I’m not kidding. It’s true.”

While the mistreatment of any animal is obviously condemnable, and by no means has such behaviour been a rarity in the history of cinema, it is slightly worrying that the forces in charge of protecting animals would believe that the Coen brothers would go so far to source a live insect and train it to bite of John Turturro. Although the film certainly doesn’t do anything for their public image, going to the difficulty of maiming a live one is probably beyond the skill of the Coen brothers, let alone the morality of it.

https://faroutmagazi...ent-mosquitoes/

[Victoria Watcher]

 

'Seagull nest-delayed' 20-storey BC Housing tower ready for construction start in 900-block of Pandora

https://victoria.cit...-block-pandora/

 

 

 

What's the difference, in terms of nuisance animals, between a seagull and a rat?

 

Or a rat or a squirrel /chipmunk?

 

 

We are an insane society.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 23 September 2025 - 11:20 AM.

[Doctor Detroit]

Two or three years ago, my strata council (of which I'm a member) received a written message from, presumably, a nearby building. The unisgned note was taped to the inside of a window in our entryway, and waxed quite wroth in a whiny, faux-concerned way about our alleged failure to remove out-of-date seagull nests from our roof.

The note explained that the gulls *always* return to last year's nest if it's still around. I suppose that's true, at least some of the time, but unless you're doing careful gull observation like the people who can distinguish individual orcas at a glance, it seems a hard argument to prove in a specific instance. There's a LOT of buyer competition in the gull-domicile market, and Darwin suggests the smart ones plop down wherever the hell they can.

In addition to which, the previous fall, we'd replaced our aged BUR roof with a nice new one, so not only were any old-nest remnants gone, most evidence of prior avian indwelling had been removed, with the remnants entombed by subsurfacing and torch-on roofing.

[One of the roofing guys did tell me that they've "always managed" to clear away debris before it could ever be a nest. And he would know.]

[Mike K.]

Construction is now officially underway.

[Fairbanks]

So we don't have a problem ripping down people's tents or shelters repeatedly but for filthy seagulls we wait?

[Victoria Watcher]

So we don't have a problem ripping down people's tents or shelters repeatedly but for filthy seagulls we wait?

 

I don't think we tear down tents very often.

[bumbleberry]

Seagulls are protected under the federal migratory birds act and if BCH had started building they would have incurred significant fines and the wrath of environmentalists everywhere. It is a moot point at this stage anyway. The birds hatched and construction is now fully underway.

[aastra]

 

 

What's the difference, in terms of nuisance animals, between a seagull and a rat?

 

It's a fair question, but I'm pretty sure the biologists have access to field guides which can help them tell the difference.