Sandwell fishing policy- DELAYED

 

Just a brief but rather disappointing update on this matter which I last looked at back in October.

A consultation on fishing in Sandwell took place with a view to implementing a charges policy and clarity over which pools could and could not be fished. The outcome of that was discussed in the report which went to Scrutiny below.

Fishing Policy

Unfortunately, and because of local elections, the outcome of this going to cabinet for approval has been delayed until at least June. 😕 The forward plan sets this timetable, and it was also confirmed verbally by a senior officer in the council.

08a – Forward Plan

I can only say that we have seen 20+ years of a policy that was already there, but which for one reason or another has never really been implemented or enforced- and the lack of money made by the council confirms that. I suppose the impact of lost and discarded tackle won’t make that much difference to the birds in the next three months as they are well used to the scum who leave rubbish behind having engaged in a three day drug and drink induced stupor in a tent. Luckily there are those that care and do something about it. Only this week, the RSPCA were talking about the amount of call outs regards litter impacting wildlife, which in the case of birds is linked almost exclusively to this single activity, indeed a figure of 40% of the total litter call outs were angling litter.

RSPCA: Animal charity reports 13,000 calls about animals ‘trapped, mutilated, or killed’ by litter (msn.com)

I can only see the issues seen in the pictures below on a pool where fishing is not permitted in Sandwell continuing over the next few months.

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Trouble in Middle Earth- Bankrupt Birmingham’s bird flu hoax unravels

“The receivers are coming…” Spent millions on promoting this shit and ended up pissing it up the wall.

SO IT BEGINS…….

This post serves as an update on this incompetently run authority which I last reported on back in August. The scene in most of their shit run and “managed” parks is one of debris in every lake, dying trees rotting in the water and dead birds becoming infested with maggots which leads to outbreaks of botulism every year. It is a situation which mirrors the political imbeciles who run the show and their lacky unionised arseholes who somehow believe that “equality” means that an entire generation should pay the retirement packages of the civil servants who believe themselves to be more equal than others. Their greed has bankrupted this authority and they get what they deserve with the inevitable redundancies that will follow. The taxpayers of Birmingham do not deserve to have their council tax hiked. The 21% council tax hike recently announced and the dimming of the street lights may mean that those in the council house have to start “lighting little candles of their own.”

“Do not trust a hope, it has forsaken these lands.”

When bankruptcy of this Labour run authority was declared, their absolute joke of a new leader “Dot clot” Cotton was on holiday in New York celebrating his birthday. FFS!

Incidentally, it seems a necromancer is waiting in the wings to deliver a new sleepless malice, a witch king of fangmar forged in the fires of Mount Doom.

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After doing their job for them and retrieving multiple carcases from one lake, to “ease the load” of the hard pressed ranger service 😆 as well as life *rings that the agency guy employed there asked me to do, I was under the impression that this authority could manage the simple task of arranging delivery of these dead birds to the APHA for examination- to at least determine they had not died from the much publicised “avian flu”. 

*not just one ring, but many rings. They are precious, my love. 😆

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I put in an FOI request to the APHA , as I had previously with that site, as well as others asking for the following.

“Could you please confirm if you have carried put any post mortems on wildfowl from Brookvale Park Birmingham , West Midlands- approximate nat grid reference SP091911 and supply me with the preliminary, supplementary and final reports concerning recent bird deaths .
We have retrieved several birds from this site in the last two months, and allegedly Birmingham City Council forwarded some of them to you for examination. Most were found to be riddled with maggots, the site having fluctuating water levels, and tree debris littering the lake.
It is noted that none appear to have tested positive for avian flu according to your publication list.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk…
Can you CONFIRM that these birds died from avian botulism, and was this a “presumptive diagnosis” without carrying out a test for this summer related illness?
I believe these may have been submitted to the Shrewsbury laboratory since May.”

I had been watching the weekly APHA wild bird surveillance list of positive cases, noting the lack of new wildfowl positives not only in this area, but around the country. None had been confirmed in the Birmingham area after we had picked up the birds, thus suggesting that they had died from something else- like the botulism that we suspected which was based on previous findings and experiences where the conditions were the same for example.

The only bird from the City council area on the list was a peregrine falcon from January 2023. 

N. B NO WILDFOWL HAD TESTED POSITIVE ON THE APHA LIST FOR MANY MONTHS TO OVER A YEAR BY THIS POINT, AND THIS IS A FACT THAT IS OF HIGH IMPORTANCE TO THIS UPDATE.

I was therefore surprised by the terse response from the APHA refusing the request under highly spurious grounds. 

They bizarrely claimed that this was the information which belonged to The Shitty council

“APHA can neither confirm nor deny it holds the information that you have requested.”

I obviously challenged this crap given that they had never refused previous similar requests, including for the same site and should not do so in this case. I also smelt a rat in wondering if Birmingham had even bothered to send off the dead birds, but was told by a resident who had offered to contact the council that a named ranger from the council, Danny Squire HAD picked them up from where we left them. A mystery and riddle in the dark if you will.

On this point I also as I have previously written and voiced, my concerns about the way in which the APHA hierarchy, those at director level are calling the shots on this being a “wild bird” issue, and their agenda in painting the picture that way without scrutiny.

“It is further noted that you routinely publish specific avian flu data and yet omit any other data concerning bird deaths for context, so that members of the public can gauge the facts about this specific illness, which I believe is being grossly exaggerated by the APHA.
Clearly, you are denying that the birds from this park and city DID NOT die from avian flu as you have not published positive tests on your wild bird AI surveillance reports in the public domain.
I further note that individuals within the hierarchy of the APHA are connected to academic institutions which are receiving money from the public purse for “vaccine research” into this specific illness, and have furthermore appeared in many publications concerning links to human health, again overblown.
A public interest test needs to be applied in this case, as it appears that information for all deaths and causes is being omitted by the APHA in favour of publishing just AI deaths without context. For this reason and the refusal to supply relevant data sets for anything else, one may question the professional integrity of those in the APHA who are connected with research into a specific field they are looking to gain from.”

The APHA carried out an internal review which did provide clarity that they had used the wrong exemption, but crucially stated “APHA can confirm it has not carried out any postmortems on wildfowl from Brookvale Park Birmingham, West Midlands.”

This therefore meant that Birmingham City Council had questions to answer as to what they had done with the birds that we had spent a whole afternoon, and indeed, several days clearing this lake of dead birds to attempt to stop the suspected botulism outbreak.

I submitted another FOI request To Birmingham City council to draw them out as to what their story was.

It looks like that white tree has withered and died under the council’s stewardship. Will it ever flower if a King returns to the city?

The council offered this response. 

Response
“Could you please confirm the species and numbers of birds forwarded
for post mortem from Brookvale Park Birmingham , West Midlands approximate nat grid reference SP091911 and supply me with the
preliminary, supplementary and final reports concerning recent bird
deaths from the APHA- i.e. all those from May 2023.”

None of the birds recovered from Brookvale Park were fit for post-mortem (birds have to be fresh collected/free from putrefaction).

This is a complete pack of lies. The birds shown above, swans were freshly dead. The APHA receive submissions of skin and bone and sometimes unidentifiable species due to decomposition. The officers of this council therefore at the first stage lie about not submitting birds to the APHA. The APHA are those who are able to comment on autolysis, not Birmingham City Council, FFS!

“We have retrieved several birds from this site in the last three months,
and allegedly Birmingham City Council forwarded some of them to the
APHA for investigation.”

The bird carcases that were deposited into the front garden of a Council Tenant were not fit for testing as they were in an advanced state of putrefaction/liquefaction. As stated for tests to be carried out birds have to be fresh collected/free from putrefaction.

Another total lie. The fact that they as a council had failed to “fresh collect” the birds, some of which had obviously been there for weeks appears to have escaped their attention. 

“Most were found to be riddled with maggots, the site having fluctuating
water levels, and tree debris littering the lake. Previous confirmed
botulism episodes at this lake and clinical observations of birds support
the likely cause of botulism again- fuelled by the continued conditions at
this site.
It is noted that no birds in the BCC area appear to have tested positive for
avian flu according to the APHA publication list, up to week 40 (2nd-8th
October 2023).”

This is not true. A Peregrine Falcon tested positive for Avian Influenza in week four of 2023 as stated below.

In this regard I had made an error in the wording of the question, which I had asked as another question below. It is the case that no wildfowl had tested positive in 2023 for avian flu. The observations about birds on the site at Brookvale are 100% true, and were botulism symptoms. See video below.

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It is also worth noting that many of the ill birds we took off this lake and treated for botulism fully recovered after being given treatment for botulism. They would not have done so if they had been ill with avian flu. This was the same as had happened previously, when liar park manager John Porter, (now ex of the council) claimed that “there is nothing meaningful to be done.” 

“It is noted that none appear to have tested positive for avian flu
according to the APHA publication list , with only one bird, a peregrine
falcon in week 4 coming from Birmingham.
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/652543deaea2d0000d219a
d6/ai-findings-2023-wk40.csv/preview”

Birds were submitted for testing from Witton Lakes Grid Ref SP 088 923, 1
Swan (Cygnet) 1 Coot, 1 Tufted Duck and 4 Mallard Ducks from Witton Lakes
were collected and frozen for submission to APHA along with an adult male
Swan from Norman Chamberlain Pool, Grid Ref SP 156 883, APHA references
WSF-A9E6_FHH3-2EC4/WSF-X4K3-PYDJ-RE84. After 4 days APHA had not
arranged collection, advice received from the APHA/Defra call handlers on the week commencing 10 July 2023 that as Avian Influenza had been previously recorded in the locality that any bird deaths that did not have other obvious reasons (for example, dog attack) should be treated as Avian Influenza. Avian Influenza has been previously recorded at Brookvale Park/Witton Lakes in 2022.

 

Bird flu marshals an army from the North. Birmingham is weak. The City council’s ranger forces need to move.

This statement is a lie and the crux of the whole avian flu hoax being perpetuated. I queried this claim with the APHA and will look at their denial of this further below. The idea that ALL deaths unless something obvious is apparent  should be treated as this one single cause without any scientific evidence is utter bullshit. How would they know the cause was “obvious” when birds at Brookvale had been dead for weeks and were rotting without any attempt to retrieve them for evidence? 

It is like saying that because someone once died of AIDS in West Bromwich, that ALL subsequent deaths should be treated as AIDS deaths. NO BIRD DEATHS WERE PROVEN AVIAN FLU CASES IN MANY MONTHS AT THIS SITE OR IN BIRMINGHAM. THE SAME CAN BE SAID ABOUT THE CONNECTING BLACK COUNTRY BOROUGHS. 

Also why should one single bird of prey receive more attention than many dead wildfowl who could also have been the victim of wildlife crime? This is just another example of the hypocrisy that top table “conservation” organisations have for putting this one species ahead of others. 

“Can you CONFIRM therefore that these birds at Brookvale park died from
avian botulism, and was this a “presumptive diagnosis” without carrying
out a test for this summer related illness?

Please read previous answer, in addition a Cygnet at Witton Lakes less than
0.9km away from Brookvale Park was euthanised by the RSPCA within this
time frame displaying symptoms of Avian Influenza.

This is another major problem. The RSPCA have behaved disgracefully at times with “avian flu”, and a prime example of needle happy stress being used to solve a problem caused by the shite guidance that DEFRA and those promoting the bird flu hoax have given them. The adherence to authority and complicity with it is quite shocking, but not surprising given the multitude of 20th Century studies to obedience, conformity and authority. The symptoms of avian flu have been made so general by the APHA hierarchy as to include everything, as I have stated before.

These are not specific to avian flu, contradict each other, and are also seen in botulism, lead poisoning and many other avian illnesses/foul play caused by man. Many of these would be treated or looked for prior to this rubbish guidance being circulated, would not result in an instant death sentence after “rescue” and should be again.

I am aware that the RSPCA have killed birds that were not confirmed ill with bird flu, but were killed because they could not outrun their boat, as well as one swan in Smethwick that was killed that had been mating and was knackered, and yet this was taken as “avian flu” symptoms like those above no doubt without ANY evidence being confirmed or ANY previous incidents for months before that. 

The attempt here by the council to mention this is a desperate attempt to look credible, when in fact it demonstrates the opposite of the lie.  

“I believe these may have been submitted to the Shrewsbury laboratory
since May. Any names appearing on the reports of officers may be
redacted if you wish, but not the cause of death, as there is a strong
public interest to establish the real cause of death of these birds, rather
than false information and narratives about “avian flu” ,which clearly
these birds DID NOT have. The public should not be misled’.”

As Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza HPAI (H5N1) is a risk to human health this dictates our response.

The bullshit signs. Perhaps it’s time to “put aside the ranger” and grow a fucking backbone?

On receiving this, I immediately got back to the APHA to clarify their position, as well as starting a complaint about this via the BCC complaints procedure. Of the latter, they originally attempted to limit the complaint I had made over the phone, so corrected this with a full breakdown of my concerns.

The reply from BCC came from an individual who I have encountered before and who many have commented bares an uncanny resemblance to the fat hobbit, except without any valour, bravery or wisdom of Samwise Gamgee.

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It is not for the first time that false accusations have been made against me by officers of this council concerning birds, and yet incredibly here we are again over 20 years later with the same guy behind them. The response also contained many provable lies and untruths. Here are the main comments and my rebuttal. 

“No permission had been given to you to go on to Brookvale Pool and retrieve life rings or dead birds.  Incidentally you then decided to leave the bird carcases in the front garden of a council tenant who is not an employee of Birmingham’s Parks and as such the front garden constitutes a private residency.  By doing so you caused distress to the resident. I would politely ask that you refrain from either going on to the water at Brookvale or depositing dead birds in the garden of a council tenant.”

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This statement is a lie. The resident has confirmed that she was not caused distress, offered to have them on her lawn as she was in touch with the guy who worked on the site, unlike the office based creature responding to this complaint and I was asked if I could retrieve the life rings by the man working on this park. Foxes could have dragged dead bird parts around the whole site and off site when left as they were for over a week, inside her garden or out of it, thus spreading disease further afield anyway. We also put the blessed life rings in the garden, thus keeping them secret, and keeping them safe where they could be collected by the site operator, which is more than his lazy fucking rangers had done in months by the number that were counted! I think the fat one wants the rings for himself. 😮 

The same statement is made multiple times to questions and observations that I made about Birmingham City Council’s lack of action, and removal of dead birds, so the copy and paste must have been used.

“After seeking advice from APHA, the advice given was with Avian Influenza being prevalent across the UK during the Spring/Summer of 2023 if the pool has already tested positive for Avian Influenza or was within a 10km cordon sanitaire of a pool that had tested positive then subsequent bird deaths should be treated as Avian Influenza.

In previous years where the attributable cause of death has been Avian Botulism then we have treated bird deaths as such.”

I will return to this except to say that a •“cordon sanitaire” refers to a restricted area where “YOU SHALL NOT PASS!” How the fuck that relates to wild free flying birds that could travel miles and hop between pools over county and local authority borderlines is lost to my comprehension FFS! 

•NOUN
  1. a guarded line preventing anyone from leaving an area infected by a disease and thus spreading it:

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Birmingham City council utterly failed to enact the guidance of the APHA regards botulism in Brookvale and at many other parks in its ownership, over many years.

I summarise this issue in the PDF below

Brookvale Park and botulism

 

None of these measures were taken by BCC prior to any avian flu, or during the incidents of botulism, and now of course the dead birds being left in situ just increase the deaths being caused by the real cause of death which is botulism.

By way of example, members of the public raised concerns in the press at this time totally independent of anything we observed. The excuses at this time did not involve avian flu, but the outcome was the same.

Dead swans and rotting carcasses wash up at Brookvale Park in Erdington – Birmingham Live (birminghammail.co.uk)

  • “As an employer we have a statutory duty to ensure the safety and wellbeing of our employees under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974.  Where Staff are dealing with birds that have confirmed Avian Influenza or suspected Avian Influenza then staff must use the appropriate PPE when collecting dead birds, this includes FFP3 filtered respiratory protection, eye protection, disposable overalls and gloves, and where staff have handled confirmed cases of birds with Avian Influenza UKHSA undertake health monitoring and proscribe a course of Chemoprophylaxis for staff affected.”
  • The response makes much of the non existent human health issues of this farce, much lauded by those seeking to benefit from vaccine research and doomsday viruses. For lazy hobbits at BCC it is an excuse to do nothing whilst hiding behind “elf and safety”. They claim that if there is no human health risk there is no need to remove the birds, but also use the human health risk as a reason for not removing the birds- and thus in their totally puddled world creating an environmental situation where more will die from the failure to do anything. I would add that I have pulled dead birds from the lakes in Birmingham with my bare hands, and oh, what a surprise, no effects.
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“Shall I describe it to you?” Elf and safety gone mad!

  • The trees on the island at this park, a top source of the dead carcases, are dead and collapsed in the water, thus adding to the contamination with the fluctuating water levels. No comment from The council on this matter.

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“Nobody cares for the trees, (in Birmingham) anymore”

  • As we saw at the pools in Smethwick, when ill or contaminated birds flew to other nearby pools, they started the issues there and continued the life/death cycle of maggots being ingested by new hosts. The deaths at other nearby lakes, particularly Witton, I will look at further on in this post.

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  • They also claimed that a ward councillor whom has been quite helpful thus far, was briefed about the issue, though she confirmed to me that officers of the council had done no such thing. It later transpired, but without apology of confirming their original lie that she had now been briefed ,  but with what bullshit I wonder?
  • The council also appear unable to understand that the syphon in this park, over 130 years old does not work! It registers being below water level when bottles or debris gets stuck in the longest pipe, thus activating the system but not dropping it when clogged and therefore continuing to empty water well below the level it should. It does not cut off therefore as BCC think it does when it falls back below the water level- it keeps on emptying the pool, and therefore decreasing the levels to dangerous environmental levels where the birds can then ingest submerged contaminated materials. APHA guidance, of which this council have been shown countless times confirms fluctuating water levels to be a major cause of botulism outbreaks.

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    The outlet from the pool, the water level drop line clear. Does this look like it cut off when it fell below water, or just kept on going for many inches more as I have stated?

APHA response

BCC have clearly cherry picked parts of this to again look plausible, but Avian flu should not take precedence where there is no evidence it exists. That evidence in itself is being denied tested by the stance of BCC , and the spread of the disease or lack of it being confirmed or proven extinct. 

Removing and disposing of dead wild birds – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

230327_Mitigation_Strategy_for_Avian_Influenza_in_Wild_Birds_in_England_and_Wales

Mitigation strategy – AI in wild birds
The Mitigation Strategy first published in August 2022 was updated in March 2023 and provides guidance to conservation charities and land managers including local authorities on how to prepare and respond to suspected and confirmed findings of avian influenza in wild birds. 

I would note here that “suspected” and “confirmed” are two entirely different entities. The council cannot confirm, because they have failed to submit any  evidence of avian flu for testing and nor do they possess any in wildfowl in their managed area for over two years. The “suspicion” is therefore baseless on lack of recent cases.  

What the council have failed to quote from the document they pluck is the below from page 38, paragraph 25.5

The removal  is “recommended when dead wild birds are found:
• at residential premises, in particular when in areas which may be accessed by children or pets.
• in urban or suburban areas or rural access routes, for example on footpaths, with frequent human footfall.
in areas where the likelihood of significant exposure of carcasses to other wild birds (or other susceptible species) for example areas where carcasses can be easily scavenged, or carcasses are in key feeding, breeding and roosting areas.
This assessment will be site specific and should be made on the basis of an
assessment of the location and species of bird present.”

We therefore have here a situation where the council are content to leave birds dead in a roosting area, a feeding area and breeding area, on the island and in the water, where carcases will be scavenged and spread to other wild birds. 

I have since contacted the APHA THAT THEY MAKE CLEAR AND UNAMBIGUOUS COMMUNICATIONS WITH THIS COUNCIL IN WRITING, WHICH PRODUCES EVIDENCE, TELLING THEM NOT TO TREAT ALL DEATHS AS AVIAN FLU, TO SUBMIT CARCASSES FOR EXAMINATION, AND TREAT SUBSEQUENT DEATHS AT BROOKVALE PARK, AS PREVIOUSLY WITNESSED AS SUSPECTED BOTULISM.

On 18th January I noted two dead swans at Witton Lakes, just 400 metres from Brookvale as the crow flies. Birds flit between the two on a regular basis. The water from Witton flows into Brookvale via a badly managed brook, also surprise surprise, blocked by debris. At this point, the lakes were still frozen, but the birds reachable. I am aware that they had been there for at least 3-4 days but were still fully in tact.

By now, and having rang the utterly useless Defra helpline which attempts to not take any details that you wish to report, I contacted the APHA at Shrewsbury direct and a colleague of mine drove the two birds over there for post mortem. Obviously, BCC would have just left them there as they have throughout with their non existent bird flu bullshit.

Subsequently, BOTH BIRD WERE CONFIRMED TO HAVE TESTED NEGATIVE FOR AVIAN FLU. 

I TOLD YOU SO!!!!

This therefore confirms not “speculation or conjecture on my part” as fat hobbit puts it, but a true result, and not one defined to fit my hypothesis, unlike HIS.

This negative result has been relayed to them, and yet it appears they are still content to leave dead birds in the water, and thus  exacerbate by useless management the more plausible botulism hypothesis.

I am fully aware that the APHA/DEFRA do not test for botulism, and this is again a failing on their part and one which fits into the picture of false AI speculation vs true cause of death confirmed. There is no doubt that sewage spillages caused by scum water operators like Severn Trent are increasing, and causing more deaths, which is an inconvenient truth the regulators and their bent MP mates do not want to address. I find it astounding, that for all the millions spent by bent academic institutions, robbing and stealing from the public purse for vaccine research, that no botulism test is available in the UK from supposed top notch world leading scientists. LET US HAVE A REAL DEBATE ON HOW AVIAN FLU IS BEING EXAGERRATED AND MISDIAGNOSED BY THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY, AND DELIBERATELY POLICY LED THAT WAY BY CERTAIN CIVIL SERVANTS TO LINE THEIR OWN FUCKING POCKETS. 

We shall see what comes of the Local Government and Social Care ombudsman complaint I have now made against Birmingham City Council. I am used to this now, taking on liars and proving shit authorities wrong, and obnoxious bed wetting fucking wankers who think they know better to cover their own failed credentials.

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I have been advised by the APHA to report wild bird deaths at the following link, and would urge anyone else in the BCC area to not bother contacting this useless council.

Report dead wild birds – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

So once again I set forth on a quest to expose local authority lies and incompetence. By rights , I should not have to do this, but……

“It’s like in the great stories,
The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were, and sometimes you didn’t want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy?
How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad happened?
But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow.
Even darkness must pass.
A new day will come.
And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer.
Those were the stories that stayed with you.
That meant something.
Even if you were too small to understand why.
But I think, I do understand.
I know now.
Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back only they didn’t.
Because they were holding on to something. That there’s some good in this world. And it’s worth fighting for.”

 

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2024 goose calendar

 

A slightly belated Happy New Year to you.

Here’s a goose calendar to download or print off as you wish. These pictures are of birds seen around and about , very often single birds that are part of a Canada goose flock or join them for safety. The Canada’s don’t seem to mind, and even mate with some of them from a different species.

GOOSE CALENDAR 2024

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Wildlife without a home- The scrooge Sandwell Plan

 

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Green space in Sandwell has been under threat for years. The population density of people remains the highest in all the local Black country boroughs, and well above the national average- it isn’t fair and the regions politicians of all mainstream parties appear to like it that way. 

We have seen the destruction of Londonderry playing fields to make way for the bankrupt Birmingham Commonwealth Games, the threat of Lion Farm fields hanging in the balance for years, and more recent uprooting of wildlife from the Tipton Coneygree site, left abandoned in ruinous condition by a bunch of con-artists. All of these supported wildlife habitat and yet the demise will see it lost forever.

I’m not a fan of golf courses as they tend to be elitist and anti-wildlife by definition, but the Brandhall Golf course closure and subsequent building of houses on that site is another net loss of green space. This was opposed by a large number of people, but money talks with SMBC.

At Friar Park, the council have been in cahoots with environmental terrorist water company Severn Trent into bringing forward land that is also green space and has been for decades. Severn Trent as I have previously exposed have a track record of never remediating land in their ownership which they admittedly “landbank” and have made millions out of the same con– the con in that it is the taxpayer who appear to have to meet the remediation costs of this privately, but once publicly owned land.

Added to these sites, the destructive Midlands Metro has destroyed a re-wilded corridor between Dudley and Wednesbury all thanks to the Midlands Riddler chump- Andy chu chu four points man Street and his undemocratically unmandated “West Midlands Combined Authority”.

His  sinking it in the brown first agenda is an even bigger threat to local wildlife, though not his greenbelt mates in rural Worcestershire, Staffordshire and Warwickshire who get to land bank their shit agricultural land for another day. He seems to think it acceptable to fund clean up of contaminated private land that the polluter never paid for, and allowing conman scum to profit from the sale of such. Look into land banking Mr not so Quality Street and you will find a pattern of tax evasion in the Channel islands and beyond.

Labour controlled SMBC as we know have a terrible wildlife legacy. 😥

A recent Sandwell council tender invited parties into

“Monitoring and Closure of Badger Setts at Oldbury and Tipton Cemetery
BRIEF DESCRIPTION
There are currently several badger setts at both Oldbury Cemetery and Tipton Cemetery. Bereavement Services are looking to close all badger setts at Oldbury Cemetery and to undertake a period of monitoring of the badger setts at Tipton Cemetery. Outline of work is as follows; –
1) Apply for the relevant licences from Natural England for both Oldbury Cemetery and Tipton Cemetery.
2) To monitor and install the relevant fencing, badger gates and any other equipment required in order to close the sett(s) at Oldbury Cemetery
3) To monitor the current badger setts at Tipton Cemetery with a view to identify ‘high active’ areas within the cemetery, to undertake a soft fill of these setts, with a view to potential closure.”
So oppose culls politically but uproot badgers from their homes in Sandwell privately appears to be council policy. 
Now to the point of this post now the backstory has been explained.

A current consultation document the so called “The Sandwell Plan”, is even more brazen about the sale and destruction of green space and wildlife habitat. This plan for housing and land use allocations up to 2041 is a mandate for developer land banking and the destruction of remaining wildlife habitat.

Their big idea and the scam is to use so called “biodiversity credits” for uprooting and evicting wildlife from one area so long as developer scum plant some token trees somewhere else.

The wildlife protection garbage policy in the plan is easily defeated by using this scam and it is clear to see that definitions of “harm” , “benefits”, “minimised” and “mitigation” are not identified. It is a plan for allowing development therefore whatever designation has previously been granted, so long as the scum can tick some useless boxes.

“Where, exceptionally, the strategic benefits of a development clearly outweigh the importance of a local nature conservation site (Sites of Local Importance for Nature Conservation), species, habitat or geological feature, damage must be minimised. Any remaining impacts, including any reduction in area, must be fully mitigated. A mitigation strategy must accompany relevant planning applications. Compensation will only be accepted in exceptional circumstances.”

Even more alarming is that another policy, SNE2 cites “The Local Nature Recovery Network Strategy”,  and “The Black Country Local Nature Recovery Network Opportunity Map.” This is code for another meaningless tick box exercise where the planners pretend they care about protecting what is already there.

The idea that nature can be somehow “measured” by calculation is ludicrous, but perhaps a part of the current Government’s interest in the environment and how it can be exploited for developer gain.

Someone is Sandwell council appears to have put figures into their twat computer let’s call it and come up with a collection of shit sites that they claim can be used as fall back to allow the rape of others- particularly it seems in the Tipton/Tividale area.

Whoever came up with this crap- please fuck off and die now! All of these areas already exist- nothing is being created so let’s just drop the mass tree planting bullshit and concentrate on areas that have good potential like Rattlechain area and the canal network connected to Sheepwash Nature Reserve, which is threatened by development in this shit plan. 

“Menzies open space” does not exist and appears to be a newly created area that the former demolished school, now in private ownership did not want. Apart from the ugly fencing which has closed off much of the once open area, this site includes the heavily polluted Millpool- contaminated by the so called “clean up” of a brownfield site that housed the WH Quays. This operator made bitumen products and the  site was heavily polluted with said material in the soils. The conman outfit Mar City Developments came along- a company run by two Irish nationals- The Ryans who appear to make a very nasty habit of going into liquidation only to re-emerge as a new phoenix entity with basically the same initials of Margaret Anne Ryan.  The millpool via The Groveland Brook took the impact of the “remediation” environmental fraud and was “marred” by the bituminous crap that got flushed out from that process, and I will be looking at that story in the new year, as I have quite a bit to say on that. Safe to say that SMBC and the EA cared nothing for the evidence that was put to them at the time, the contaminated birds that had to be rescued, and let the con-artists do what they liked on site to create housing. So much for environmental protection policy there!

The cracker has always been basically a pikey horse parking area. Tividale park a drug dealing chicken shop Mecca. Where was the strategy in choice of these sites?! Is this the extent of Sandwell Council’s ambition for wildlife?

Please object to the ideas in This plan. You have just one week until December 18th to register your objections, and the best way to do this is to create an account at the link below and comment on the speech bubble oportunites. Unfortunately however it appears that whatever the scale of public opposition, SMBC will ignore you and create habitat for developers to soil with their shovels. Expect a hard hat wearing wanker on your doorsteps for a photo opportunity where once wildlife thrived. 😥

“Draft Regulation 18 Sandwell Local Plan”

 

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Sandwell Council Fishing consultation- the catch is in the enforcement

I’ll keep this one brief. This is your opportunity to tell the policy makers what you think of angling in Sandwell. Personally I don’t think much of it at all, except it consumes a great deal of my time, caused by some lazy fucking bastards who do not care. The issue is with free fishing which needs to be stopped. 

Please do fill out the form below before 24th November.

 

Consultation on the draft Fishing Policy – Sandwell Council – Citizen Space

I have completed a submission to Relevant officers and Cabinet members at Sandwell council. You can read this below.

Sandwell fishing policy 2023 swanwatch response

WE CANNOT CONTINUE TO HAVE THIS ONE ACTIVITY CAUSING EVIDENTIAL HARM TO WILDLIFE AND THE ENVIRONMENT. THE COUNCIL MUST ACT TO ENFORCE ITS OWN POLICY, THAT UP UNTIL NOW IT HAS FAILED TO DO. 

 

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Angling for a change in direction

For some 25+ years now I have been raising and attempting to get the powers that be at Sandwell council to enforce and manage this recklessly practiced activity on Sandwell’s council owned pools.

When trying to campaign you go through all of the motions of writing letters, emails, presenting visual evidence and more of late posting these via social media. But in all of that time, the only thing that has struck me is that councillors in this borough and their officers could not give a shit about the wildlife affected, whatever they claim to be, whatever they claim to be “animal lovers”. Because if they were all of that, they would pass and enforce policy wouldn’t they- based on the irrefutable evidence based information that I have systematically set out?

In 2002, I set about conducting a survey of the council’s pools regards fishing issues, “An assessment of Sandwell Council’s fisheries management and its effects on wildlife and the environment” and quantifying the problem of discarded line and tackle, and the consequence of wild birds becoming injured through this. This was to be a 60 page report. My thanks to Darryl for scanning this for inclusion in this post.

Sandwell council fishing report

If you don’t want to read the entire thing, then the executive summary will suffice.

A number of recommendations were produced. We collected large amounts of tackle and fishing line from many sites across the borough and combined this with rescue statistics of birds that were injured as a direct result of angling activity- i.e that which could not be refuted.  As a matter of course, all of our rescue statistics were sent to The National Swan Convention ( an umbrella group for rescue organisations),  who collated figures for the Environment agency study and campaigning. The conclusions drawn from our report were

  • 1633 yards of fishing line was collected in just 9 months from Sandwell sites, with 1007 yards of it from Victoria Park Tipton alone!
  • multiple instances of illegal sized lead shot were collected as well as barbed and treble hooks which were supposedly “banned” on Sandwell’s pools
  • 36 birds had tackle related injuries, 14 of them pigeons
  • Little regulation and enforcement by Sandwell council with free fishing and alcohol consumption being rife
  • Fishing on non designated pools was occurring threatening wildfowl that shouldn’t have been

Above all it was noted that free fishing was a serious issue related to anti- social behaviour and litter issues and that this was a problem across Sandwell- because the council did not charge and allowed free unregulated fishing.

I further after many years of emails to numerous councillors and officers put in FOI requests which clearly evidentially prove that the council makes nothing from the policy which they enacted.

More recently, a “lockdown litter” campaign was introduced, and yet there was a meaningless response from Sandwell council at this time, with clearly very little interest in engaging with this issue. IS THIS BECAUSE OF PAST ISSUES WHERE THEIR GOOSE CULL WAS EXPOSED AND THEIR OFFICERS EXPOSED AS LIARS? IF THIS IS THE CASE, THEN IT IS CLEAR THAT POLICY AND ITS DIRECTION IS NOT BASED ON EVIDENCE, BUT ON PERSONAL PREJUDICES AGAINST THOSE WHO WITNESS INJUSTICES THAT THE POLITICAL CLASS ARE NEVER GOING TO ACKNOWLEDGE. 

WE CONTINUE TO BE LET DOWN WITH FALSE TIMESCALES, PROCRASTINATION AND UNANSWERED EMAILS FROM SENIOR OFFICERS ABOUT THIS SUBJECT. IF THERE ARE ANY LEADERS IN SANDWELL COUNCIL, IT IS TIME THAT THEY REVEALED THEMSELVES NOW TO BREAK THIS CYCLE OF LETHARGY ON THIS ISSUE. 

After 21 years in 2023, it is the same old story, in the same old places.

West Smethwick Park

Sheepwash Nature Reserve

Victoria Park Tipton

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Avian flu origins #2. Bernard Matthew’s deathly drummers

INVESTIGATION AND OPINION

THE UGLY , REALLY UGLY WORLD OF BERNARD MATTHEWS AND CO 

Irish Independent February 2007

I have previously outlined how “avian flu” (H5N1), entered this country by the trade in importing birds into the UK by pathetic individuals. A second case occurred just a few months later in a whooper swan in April 2006,- a wild bird, but where had it been?

There was later speculation that this bird had in fact never arrived in the UK at all, but had washed onto the coast, being badly decomposed with a strain similar to birds found in Germany. You can see from that article that we get the same bunch of “experts” banging on about “potential” to infect humans. Well it never happened did it! 

The third recorded case of avian flu in the UK occurred at the Suffolk premises of this Turkey twat in January 2007. A number of points arise from reports about this at that time.

Irish Independent

 

  • The Matthews factory had close links with Saga Foods in Hungary. This was a subsidiary of his company. This site had had an outbreak of H5N1 the month previous.
  • There had been reports of the animal husbandry at the Suffolk plant being rubbish and hygiene standards also poor. Access for wild birds (gulls) was reported feeding from the uncovered remains of turkeys- IE A TRANSMISSION SOURCE and route FROM FACTORY FARMED BIRDS TO WILD BIRDS, AND NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND.  
  • The firm delayed reporting the outbreak to DEFRA by a couple of days after the first dead and ill birds were found.
  • They attempted to deny links with the filthy Eastern Euro premises by blaming wild birds. The issue was a PR disaster for Matthews and his company, and he was not wheeled out to face the media, as its head and well known face until the press had started to ask questions about the denials. Even then, his apologies were pithy and insincere. 
  • It would later emerge that it was the same strain of avian flu as at the Hungary plant, meaning that it was almost certain that this was the source of the outbreak arriving in the UK- IE THE POULTRY INDUSTRY VIA BERNARD MATTHEWS HAD BROUGHT AVIAN FLU INTO THE UK FROM ONE OF THEIR ALLIED COMPANIES IN HUNGARY WHOSE HYGIENE STANDARDS WERE ALSO SHITE. 
  • Confidence in the sector and in this company in particular nosedived and there was a massive drop in sales of turkeys and loss of a reported £77 million.
  • British exports of poultry were banned.
  • The Blair Government’s incompetence of handling the situation mirrored their earlier failures of foot and mouth in 2001.
  • Some 160,000 turkeys were slaughtered- the same mass culling as had happened with foot and mouth- despite claims that if you cooked the food it would not harm you. Would anyone really buy that shit ?
  • Once again as now, the same “experts” reported doom and gloom in 2007

Same old chestnut project fear-  never happens but they spend the rest of their academic lives using public money to try to make it happen.

The 9th February 20th Irish Independent confirmed the link to Hungary. 

The 17th February 2007 Irish Independent speculated that the plant boss could face charges. Defra ruled out the wild bird theory in a report and said the most likely source was from Hungary. This country of course attempted to deny that, but no one really believes that do they? 

The most astute comment from the Liberal Democrat MP, is the essence of the issue, and that which I will reflect in this post.

“Allowing wild birds to feed on raw poultry meat left in the open is highly irresponsible. The impression is of organisations still in denial about the seriousness of events at its plant.”

It is this large scale farming which creates large scale illness and disease, not just in birds but in every other farmed animal. We have had dozens of scares and supermarket recalls, all involving meat and dairy products over the last thirty years in the UK. The industry is not safe and neither are their products and yet no politician of any party will address this issue. 

It should come as no surprise that birds packed into cages or sheds eating one another’s shit and then their body parts shrink wrapped in plastic to be eaten as convenience for some pathetic “cook” die suffering for another “animal” to then consume and ultimately become death themselves. 

There is nothing nutritious about the Matthews “turkey twizzler” or “chicken drummer” except they offer a pauper’s meal where the boss of the death camp gets fat feeding like a leech off their affordable ease of purchase. Supermarkets too are part of this problem. 

Matthews may as well have pulled down his trousers and pants, assumed dog scooting carpet arse wiping position,(legs aloft up to shoulders), and invited customers to stick their twizzlers in his arsehole for a turkey dip; literally they were eating his shit anyway! 

Intensive farming mutates illness in factory farms, not in the wild, and yet this industry always promotes the fantasy that their premises comply with laws and that it is some unseen invisible outside threat of wild birds that cause their losses. 

It should come as no surprise about the type of person that would work in this sector and with this company, and those like them who probably arrive in the UK on a boat with little language but are dead from the neck up. A year before two BM workers were filmed playing bat and ball with turkeys at his plant at Felthorpe near Norwich. Once again the source  I use is The Irish Independent of 8th September 2006. 

The Hillside animal sanctuary who captured the footage, and not of course any Government agency in their failed jobs, alleged that they had been targeted by this company with trackers and surveillance themselves. 

The most despicable part of the 2007 story is that these poultry killing cunts were granted £600,000 compensation by New labour for losses. So what then is the point of fining them for poor health and safety practices when this is the reward? What is the point of the Foods Standards Agency, The APHA and all the rest of their .GOV ilk? It seems very much the case that these fines pay the wages of these increasingly bone idle work from home snivel service workers. Perhaps they don’t like being cooped up in a warm office environment eh?

But this is not the end of the story. A 2009 outbreak at more of Matthews Treblinkas was not alleged to be of the highly pathogenic form, and yet none the less Bird Flu Bernard made the news for the wrong reasons. A year later, the helmsman got stuffed himself at the age of 80, and good fucking riddance to that!

The ghastly Boparan chicken empire appears to have consumed the bones of Bernard and is now a part of that Asian cuisine source. 

 In 2022 up to the present then, more evidence that the 2007 lessons had not been learnt, and that a pathway exists from this sector to contaminate and infect wild birds through their shite animal caged death camps. 

It is also the case last year that the HSE dealt with two cases where BM workers were badly injured by unsafe working practices, as though the source of meat through the metal grinders is jumping from bird to human transmission almost. 

“Colin Frewin was left permanently paralysed and spent six months in hospital following an incident at the company’s Suffolk manufacturing plant.

Mr Frewin suffered multiple serious injuries, including a pierced left lung, several broken ribs, four fractured vertebrae and a spinal bleed. He was put in an induced coma for three weeks and is now classed as a T6 paraplegic and has been diagnosed with autonomic dysreflexia (AD).”

The problem with all of this is that those in the Government agencies calling the shots are complicit and support this economy of death and disease. They are apologists and not enforcers- they are also consumers with a penchant for farming themselves. Their bias is therefore clouding their judgement. 

The whole focus of the unfolding recent avian flu farce has been centred around the economic interests of the poultry production industry, but more so on the “public health” façade spearheaded by the UK Health Security Agency, UKHSA. This body were formerly just known as “The Health Protection Agency” and before that “Public Health England”, but the new name suggests a more authoritarian approach, which is likely all a part of the plan.

A recent video has shown what the  industry they are protecting lies about and how it is a risk to public health from organisations like KFC and the pound shop Ghetto “innit” chicken box establishments , which probably use mice if they run out, not that the retards who consume such meals would even notice the difference. I tend to find that those who eat fried chicken have low intelligence and are not worthy of much to society as a whole. This is a must watch. Embrace it and reason that there is a serious problem. 

BREAKING: KFC & Niko Omilana EXPOSED in Shocking Scandal!! – YouTube

This then sets the standard of what Middlemiss, Brown and the shit stains at the Animal Plant and Health Agency, another part of the problem, are trying to “protect”, by the lie and false claim that it is wild migratory birds that cause disease and death amongst captive birds that are dying by the bucket load in close containment , from er, disease and suffering. They are nothing more than the servants and shills of this maximizing space for profit sadistic industry. I also question those “scientists” from Hungary working on avian flu today who may well know more than we do about the origins of the Matthews 2007 import to the UK. 

If as a consumer you are happy to continue eating such birds from an industry which does not care and is not safe then you do so at your own risk, but also a risk to wild birds in the future. 

 

 

 

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Bankrupt Birmingham’s botulism resurfaces

Birmingham City Council fail again. 

Once again due to pathetic environmental management of its inner city parks, birds are dying on a lake “managed” by an authority which does not care about their fate.

I have set out a long history post about Brookvale Park in Erdington and the issues that were occurring there due to certain procedures not being followed- principally the fluctuating water levels which can see the water levels drop by a foot to expose silt and brick material where botulism thrives in hot/wet conditions.

A summary PDF of the issues can be read HERE-and please do take the time to read this before reading on……

Last month I noticed some dead birds and ill ones at this lake, in conjunction with the same dramatic emptying of the water due to the ancient siphon that lets out water not working properly. THIS STRUCTURE AS BCC STATE DATES FROM 1880 FFS! 

This is a repeat occurrence, and the system is not fit for purpose, at least without the manpower of regularly clearing the area of debris, which is just not happening at present.

In 2020, the following statement was made by Joe Hayden of BCC in relation to this, and we were provided with the attached diagram and picture for explanation.

Brookvale syphon overflow details (1)

“The Siphon at Brookvale Park

Please find further details attached for the syphon arrangements at Brookvale Park.

There is a letter box weir and eight syphon pipes in this location. When water level rises in the pool and covers the shorter top water level pipes, the system is primed and the water will be automatically sucked until the water drops below the level of the slightly longer syphons, at which point the connection is broken, and the water level will start to rise again in the pool. By eye, the longer pipes appear to be about 150mm – 200mm longer than the shorter ones, and so this will be the maximum variance in water levels caused by siphon operation. The system has been effective since built (circa 1880) and as designed, with any major changes likely to affect marginal planting and the various inflows further upstream in the system.

Birmingham City Council do not manually regulate the water levels, as this historic arrangement has been in place for many years and it would take sizeable time and investment to amend the water level management arrangement. Any changes would likely have adverse impacts on upstream water levels, freely discharging outfalls and would increase flood risk elsewhere.”

When bottles or other obstructions- (of course there was no plastic in Victorian England when the park was created), the siphon goes on emptying water due to thinking that the siphon pipes are still above water, which they are not. The council cannot grasp this concept and do not provide any clearance of this to stop this from happening on a daily basis. 

In connection to this there are large amounts of dead wood in the lake and the trees on the islands have collapsed, again perfect breeding ground for botulism in hot weather and fluctuating water levels. This has also been mentioned before, but the debris remains there.

branches of trees on the islands are now touching the water- adding an “energy source” to the thriving botulism

Added to this, some contractors appear to have been doing some tree works around the edge of the lake, and have chucked the debris in the lake!

Just plain stupid!

It’s been there for years

I would once again draw the reader of this blog post to the APHA guidance about dealing with issues surrounding botulism outbreaks on areas of water. THIS INFORMATION WAS REPEATEDLY SENT TO BCC OFFICERS BY THE APHA, THE RSPCA AND MYSELF, AND TOTALLY IGNORED , PARTICULARLY BY ONE INDIVIDUAL WHO NOW APPARENTLY THANKFULLY NO LONGER IS EMPLOYED BY THE COUNCIL, BUT IT IS QUESTIONED AS TO WHETHER HE STILL LIVES IN A PARK HOUSE BASED IN SUTTON PARK WHERE SUCH ISSUES DO NOT OCCUR? 

Birmingham City Council did none of these in 2019 and continue to do none of these in 2023- which is why the problem recurs.

The council have failed to remove dead birds from the island or lake itself- WE HAVE, and thus they would be still there to continue the cycle of infected maggots being ingested. Carcases on the island were riddled with fresh maggots, which is how this illness spreads.

See the video below taken on the island which shows this process.

Video (facebook.com)

A dead swan left in the water, would still have been there if we hadn’t removed it

 

We have gone above what the third sector should have to do. Every bird found alive so far, bar two have recovered after botulism treatment with charcoal. Indeed the APHA PDF confirms at page 2 concerning situations like this-

“Treatment regimes, including careful oral administration of warm water to flush toxin from the gastro-intestinal tract in early cases, and nursing can be effective.”

This has nothing to do with avian flu, indeed, the only case recorded in wild birds on the APHA website in the BCC area in 2023 so far was a peregrine falcon in week 4. Let’s cut the wide eyed crap about what is killing these birds and not hide behind bullshit. Let us also remember that this is not really “avian ” botulism, but a symptomatic effect caused by manmade issues- notably of course in Smethwick due to Severn Trent Water’s sewage pollution. It is noted that STW were digging up the road in George Road near to this lake a few weeks ago, the second time within the last year. Maybe unconnected, but I don’t believe in coincidences anymore- not with that company.

We understand that someone from BCC collected birds retrieved by ourselves on one Sunday, some 48 hours later , in which time post mortem predation by a fox had occurred on a bagged up swan. This is not good enough, and the council are not fulfilling their responsibilities.

We even retrieved 15 FIFTEEN, life rings from the pool, which are bloody useless anyway quite frankly on an area of water that size.

We are aware that this council being badly run politically and by officers who appear incapable of acting prudently with public money is near bankruptcy. This article also reveals that public sector workers were allowed “task and finish”, including it states those in parks maintenance, and that BCC’s debt mountain may be being paid off by those outside this bone idle sector for decades.

In the strongest terms  we can only say that things must improve with the management and debris clearance of this lake.

The remaining birds need to be protected and things MUST improve at this site.

1 The weir/siphon need to be checked daily and cleared of debris regularly- particularly in hot/wet weather when levels fluctuate.

  1. The debris in the lake and trees must be removed. BCC cannot give the excuse of “we would disturb the silt” if we did. The pool is dying and so are the trees. Are the city council content to leave it in this state, knowing full well that it is contributing to the deaths of wildfowl on the lake?

3 There IS “something meaningful to be done”- unlike the rubbish that a previous park manager for this area was misinforming elected members about with botulism. Birds can and do recover, and they need to be removed as soon as possible.

4 A boat needs to be based on site, and regular checks made on areas to remove dead birds. This is not the job of the RSPCA and the third sector. The council spent and wasted enough money on the CG22 and yet in our experience have the worst managed pools in the West Midlands, an observation made by others. For example Shock as dead geese found in filthy lake at Small Heath Park | I Am Birmingham

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Avian flu origins #1- Bird slavers importing death

INVESTIGATION AND OPINION

 

H5N1 in the highly pathogenic avian variety first visited the UK in 2005, and wild birds did NOT bring it here. It came from imported birds from Taiwan and South America at a privately owned “quarantine facility” in Essex, Pegasus Birds Ltd.

There is a considerable back story to this establishment and its criminal owner BRETT HAMMOND which I will look at in this post. It is a story of tax evasion, a network where smuggling birds from the wild in foreign countries causes unimaginable suffering to the few that even survive the journey and a threat to already persecuted species when they were sold as fake “captive bred” birds in the UK. The issue was notably dealt with in The Cook report exposing the network where the pre bird flu Hammond makes an appearance. 

Collections such as this are created by people with extreme personal vanity and narcissism , and as with zoos, they offer absolutely NOTHING to these animals except caged suffering. The “conservation” fraud is for the personal gain of individuals and “charities” who hide under the banner of “conservation” or “education”. None of the breeding programmes in these collections result in releases back into the wild of animals or birds in their natural countries of origin of these endangered species , as presumably some Neanderthal Chief Chirpa would kill them like they have for decades or some big white game hunting prick would instead. No, these animals and birds are pimped for money, with the offspring forever moved around establishments to continue the fraud of “conservation” and breeding programmes.

They should not be in this country and do not belong here, and the collections usually die off through being kept in unnatural close proximity, such as those penguins at Dudley Zoo in the link above. It is like the poem by Shamus Heaney, blackberry-picking where greed and avarice only results in a crop dying off.

“Each year I hoped they’d keep, knew they would not.”

If you contribute to this through the gates as a punter, or “adopt” anything YOU ARE VERY MUCH A PART OF THIS CYCLE OF SUFFERING AND THE FRAUD IT ENTAILS. 

The 2005 doomed “avian flu” birds came to the UK, not by their migration flight, but by cargo plane, no doubt a flight assisted by some greasy slant eyed sloth and Pedro chihuahua fuckers who would be involved in people smuggling if they could get away with that too. They and their trade and all the gophers involved in it are nothing but pathetic backward retarded scum, and they are worse than human slave masters.

The following report was carried out by DEFRA, via the then Veterinary Laboratories Agency a then fairly new Quango set up after the disastrous MAFF foot and mouth debacle. What is astonishing is that Hammond’s dodgy  establishment was actually adjacent to the traced source of the foot and mouth outbreak of 2001! What a fucking backward animal disease bearing shithole Essex must be as well as being the stomping ground of wannabe gangsters with Turkey teeth! 

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The report showed that mesias, a type of Asian finch imported from Taiwan , were the most likely source of the infection, which then transmitted to a parrot from Surinam, originally thought to be the “bird zero”. What we see hear is the start of the problem. Imported birds that would never have come into contact with one another in nature arriving in a country that they would never naturally visit. Hammond brought disease and death to his fake “quarantine” centre. He brought avian flu into the UK. 

Additionally, in death the birds were also mixed up with some never even tested. This also rings alarm bells with what I have said before about the amateur methodology of the department scientists and their acumen.

In my dealings with the VLA at around the same time as this, I found them to be an extremely thick organisation in terms of identifying the obvious chemical poisoning pollution at Rattlechain lagoon, and you can read that story HERE. 

The worst part of the tale in Essex was that those that had even survived the flight were automatically put to death, even those that never had anything wrong with them. NOT ALL THE BIRDS HAD AI. This is another major criticism of DEFRA to this day and their sledgehammer mentality of murder everything to cover over their failed surveillance and scrutiny of why cunts like Hammond were even able to operate in some wooden shed hovel in a field. 

The following report is taken from The Irish Independent of 16th November 2005, and discusses the findings of the DEFRA report and issues I have raised above.

The most telling point in the report is that the real origin of the strain originated in China.

“13. Subsequent laboratory examinations revealed that the isolate was H5N1 and not a strain that the Avian Virology Unit at VLA Weybridge have isolated previously. The strain most closely resembles an isolate from wild ducks in China earlier in 2005.

Though these are classed as “wild ducks”, the farming practices of this shithole overpopulated country are once again the origins of animal disease running rampant. The curiosity of scientists to store and experiment with such viruses in laboratories around the world then also offer an alarming opportunity for escape via more unnatural means. Perhaps the lack of any crack down on this trade by the authorities is all part of the plan to allow such pathways to exist so that the vaccine profitability is more plausible.

“MR BIRD FLU” HAS FORM FOR ANIMAL CRUELTY. 

When news of the phoney “quarantine” centre flew out, it was not long before at least some due diligent journalists began to look at the owner of Pegasus Birds. We also see the utter hoax of the “conservation” bollocks spoken of previously.

‘Mr Bird Flu’ is convicted fraudster | Daily Mail Online

The daily Mail piece stated

“Mr Hammond, who has refused to answer questions about the case, trades in rare and wild birds for collectors and zoos, but in 1997 was sentenced to 18 months jail – later reduced to 12 months on appeal – for VAT fraud.

His ramshackle premises, in West Horndon, Essex, are next door to the Orchard Farm – not connected to his company – where foot and mouth disease was first spotted in 2001.

It is understood that the divorced trader, who lives in a luxury home in Upminster, Essex, had kept the parrot in quarantine at a separate site, where it was infected by a bird imported from Taiwan.”

“It also emerged Mr Hammond was confronted in 1992 by TV reporter Roger Cook, who was investigating allegations of bird cruelty and illegal importing in the trade. Mr Hammond walked away from the camera without answering questions about fellow traders.”

The crooked Hammond was indeed jailed when coming up before the beak, as other sources prove. The 10th October 1996 Dunmow Observer revealed how the budgie smuggler was not alone in the crime and accomplice Eric Foster had also been charged. Oddly, they had been remanded, so must have been considered a “flight risk” if you’ll excuse the pun. No records were kept of sales, though obviously, many birds died before even being sold. 

Once again with this I would ask, why was the taxman more interested in this aspect than the animal cruelty? Where the fuck were the RSPCA or police wildlife crime officers from Essex?

The following year, The favourite paper of this fraudster reported his sentencing on 20th February 1997. Both got 18 months , though this was later reduced as reported. 

What an absolutely gob smacking pack of lies from his solicitor.

Not only was this crook a danger to birds, but so were the individuals who called themselves his clients. The Sunday World paper exposed another Irish dealer Richard O’Brien, (not of Rocky Horror Show fame), in a special report who had bought birds from Hammond and was also a bird smuggler.

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Another Guardian article is interesting in revealing how much money some firms would make from a round of DERFA culls of Avian Flu took hold, as with Foot and Mouth.

Defra plans mass cull of poultry if avian flu hits UK | Health | The Guardian

It also states the backstory to Hammond

“Brett Hammond, 43, is at the centre of the first H5NI virus case in Britain. Yesterday his firm, Pegasus Birds Ltd, in Horndon, Essex, one of the UK’s biggest wild bird importers and retailers, hired extra security to patrol its aviaries. The firm has been watched by the RSPCA for several years. In the past Mr Hammond was jailed for not paying £650,000 of VAT. He has declined to comment since a parrot died in quarantine at his firm.”

It is incredible that the RSPCA were just “watching” as so many birds died. They too have blood on the hands from their failure to act to stop this vile trade in death. 

“PITY POLLY”- THE COOK REPORT. 

Roger Cook is a journalist to be admired, and not one of those propagandists who reprint the lies of corporations and politicians. His 1992 documentary exposed how rare and exotic birds at the centre of the later avian flu outbreak were being smuggled into the country after being caught in the wild. Please do watch the youtube video below.

Images and main points of the programme.

An African savage boasts to camera how it catches wild toucans using a dead hung Toucan as a decoy fixed to a branch

Cook meets Phil Dobinson, a man who on his linked in profile today claims that he grew up in Zambia and Zimbabwe, posing as a responsible bird dealer where caged birds can cost thousands of pounds. You can tell with the facial distorted expression tells when this lying piece of crap tells a falsehood or is talking out of his arse, and Cook would have been astute to this, as would anyone with NVC familiarity.

Phil Dobinson of the smuggling bird front “safari select”

Dobinson claims that rain forests are being destroyed which threatens the birds, yet his direct involvement and dealers like him are the real cause of birds being stolen and becoming extinct.

Cook then visits Guyana, a primitive South American jungle country and meets a retard who likes catching macaws using decoy macaws to sell as well as damaging them.

The scum renders birds flightless by damaging and clipping their wings. Someone should cut off its dick

 

A consignment of caged stolen birds from the wild arrives in the UK

Some 170 of these birds were bought by Dobinson to be housed in a “quarantine facility”- Pegasus birds owned by Hammond. It is claimed that this site is “ministry approved”, and yet on a visit to this place, it is revealed that many are dying due to an unnamed “highly infectious disease”. 

The close proximity of these wild birds would not happen in nature, but the quarantine and shipment is entirely responsible for their demise. All 170 birds it is stated died or were put down by Ministry vets. 

Andy Jones of RSPB investigations states that almost a third of imported birds to the UK die in transit.

The Cook report receives a tip off from an ex copper revealed to be David Neville.

The Zimbabwe front bird laundering connection

Dobinson was laundering birds using Zimbabwean Danny Swart whose set up was a wild bird captive breeding front for Dobinson’s business.

Goffin’s cockatoos aka Tanimbar corella    are only found on remote Indonesian islands. Cook traced  shipments  from Singapore to Zimbabwe to Swart who then exported to Dobinson. The false narrative is that the birds were captive bred- they were stolen from the wild. 

Someone in a dodgy bird business in Singapore lets slip what Dobinson is doing

The Cook team buy a cockatoo in poor condition, with the age also being a lie. It is deemed to be a wild bird.

Swart is confronted in Zimbawe about the stolen laundered birds and Dobinson’s sham operation. He says very little.

Dobinson then confronted by Cook at his Safari company sham.

Dobinson tells ridiculous lies and it is revealed that he is a repeat criminal who has 13 convictions including cruelty to birds and selling them without correct paperwork- ie laundering them.

Ex Copper David Neville spills the beans about his former associates dodgy illegal business.

I have to say I find Neville’s involvement with this a little strange. Having done some research the article below from two years earlier connects the two individuals at this point in time.

How odd that a bookkeeper would be required for this tax evading business.

21st September 1989 Newspaper: Dorking and Leatherhead Advertiser

Not only were there “thefts”  but also “accidents” where even more birds died. The Horley and Gatwick Mirror of 1st February 1990 revealed how a storm had caused carnage. The advertisement on the right is quite ironic, and I have included it here.

I find Nevilles distancing from Dobinson unconvincing. He must have known the crook that Dobinson was, or could have found out. Why the fuck would he have wanted anything to do with him in the first place in business let alone suddenly have grown a conscience?

Cook then reveals all the amazon parrots died in Hammonds fake quarantine business fraud operation that launders feathered cargo stolen from the wild.

Hammond the “conservation” fraudster is collared by Roger Cook about the death of several birds. 

A scum accomplice in wildlife crime has nothing to declare- like his taxes. Hundreds of bird deaths are down to him and his activities. 

I have researched Hammond further going back to his fake bird dealings as early as 1989, where he was apparently looking for a golden eagle that had escaped him. The origin of this bird is questionable, and I would also state that this type of bird should not in my opinion be captively allowed as some type of ornamental  sideshow doing tricks or to return to a human arm. I have low regard for falconry in general, as many of the individuals behind it have a trouser problem and use their plastic birds illegally in wildlife crime or for their own personal gratification and low self esteem. I have seen this; I have reported it to relevant authorities. Cook did another great investigation into this trade in birds going the other way, usually to tea towel heads in the far east with stolen peregrine falcons which you can see HERE. 

What this shows early on is that Hammond was a shite animal husbandry Walter Mitty character who knew nothing about bird welfare needs. The lavish lifestyle of this twat would continue to grow as he traded in the feathered slaves that he imported to Essex.

31st May 1989 Daily Mirror

As well as Golden Eagles, we see that this man had for some time been importing birds that had no place to be in this country, except the old excuse of “conservation”. As I mentioned earlier, Toucans and how they were trapped using dead decoy birds and their wings cruelly cut would make an appearance of course in The Cook report.

If you were a zoo or or private collector supplied by Hammond or Dobinson, you are fucking scum, and are a part of the trade in wildlife crime from which they profited.

20/1/1989 Brentwood Evening Gazette HAMMOND IS A LIAR

What we then see is the cover trail of covering up bird deaths, due largely to the import of them into the country. A number of “thefts” were reported by Pegasus. In one report I saw, Hammond claimed to be using micro chipping of birds to prevent “crime”- of them being “stolen” from his crim business. I’m not sure how a wildlife thief can get burgled? Was it an insurance fiddle or was his business that unlucky, sorry, I mean were the birds that had been stolen from the wild unlucky as they were the only ones who actually suffered any form of loss?

Always with these characters there is talk of “stock” and the value of money and nothing else. The 13th January 1989 Brentwood Gazette makes the astonishing claim that “bird burgling is big business according to Brett Hammond. ” A wildlife thief stealing from a wildlife thief is not a crime- it is the same practice. 

A similar story the following year in 16th March edition of the same paper.

Perhaps these reports alerted the authorities into the dodgy dealings going on at Pegasus, though not it appears crucially the animal welfare concerns.

Incredibly, even though apparently on the radar of the RSPCA- (what the fuck were they actually doing?) his spell behind the bars he so deserved did not end his dealings in the trade. It is incredible, and shoddy journalism and editorial by the Brentwood Gazette, that they failed to even mention his past form and that he had served less than half his term for tax crime.

11th December 1997

Today in 2023, it appears that Hammond is no longer directly involved with bird smuggling and has attempted to reinvent himself as a respectable antiques dealer. One can only hope that none of his exhibits are , erm, stuffed parrots, or come from hawking, and he won’t be appearing on the Antiques rogue, (sorry for the Freudian) Road show anytime soon.

Dobinson has relocated to Zimbabwe, and its just a pity that Mugabe didn’t catch and bag him with a noose on safari. 😆

The most telling thing about the Cook investigation and the cancer that still lingers today is that bunch of bureaucratic, undoubtedly woke as fuck suit wearing political globe trotters known as CITES .

This organisation is a waste of fucking space and does more to fuel the trade in illegal bird and animal smuggling than it does to stop it.

The more endangered a species becomes or is classified as being such by them, the more lucrative the value in profits that will be made in selling them.

As with the UK authorities, these office based plankton are no doubt all signed up to the globalist one health bollocks looking for zoonotic opportunities to produce vaccines. One wonders to what extent secret esoteric societies of academia are joined in the criminal trade in animal and birds- probably the kingpin slave masters at the very top of the tree. 

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The cost of feeding crisis

There is no doubt at the moment that supermarkets are ripping off the public by their overnight price hikes in food. This is not just limited to human food, but animal food as well, and for those that feed wildlife and birds like myself it means making some tough choices.

Even the “budget” stores like Aldi and Lidl have raised prices which are extortionate and items like 1kg bags of porridge oats to which I regularly feed the birds went up by 14p without explanation (70p to now 84p). Six pence also went on a loaf of bread.

Young geese are able to feed on grass from almost the word go, so long as they can get out of the water to feed. Cygnets however are more difficult to cater for, with their parents attempting to retrieve submerged food where there is often none at all. This is certainly true of many of the Victorian parks in Sandwell.

Unfortunately, too much emphasis was put into Green flag status parks by this council in the last 20 years. Some parks such as West Smethwick have undergone “restoration” schemes that have destroyed the greenery that was there, as well as the cowboy contractors who carried out the work and damaged the aeration cables which have still not been fixed after a year out of action. Why the council have not sued this company I do not know, but if they ever get another lottery grant, (and that body must now be somewhat weary), it can only be hoped that they will block Casey from applying any tender, because they are the very worst shoddy shit. 

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An absolutely rotten “restoration” of the main lake

For cygnets in such parks where they cannot gain access to grass, I would suggest finding a source of willow tree leaves, which usually grow by water, but are often out of reach for the parent birds to pick. This early spring food source is a natural food of choice for swans. 

Don’t pick leaves that are overhanging or within reach that the adult birds could reach, but ones which are not in their reach. Strip downwards along the length of the stem and then remove any stems to leave just the leaves.

It is then best to grind up the leaves and throw them towards the adults, who will probably pick them up and drop them again to show the cygnets that it is food to eat. They may also start paddling their legs in the water to bring up weed. 

Another good cheap food source are small peas, which are just 28p at present in Aldi and I have found that these are well liked. Either put these on the side, or throw them in one at a time, and they will dunk for them. 

Of course, we will continue to be on the case of our local council and hope that they will plant more natural food in their pools, especially where works have left a clear vacuum of available survival for our birds. 

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