Summary
(However, resident birds are not normally the problem from a BASH standpoint, migratory birds are.) Check with your base Air Force Wildlife Management personnel who can tell you when the optimum time for cannon activation is based on your base's problem migratory birds, time of year, changes to migratory patterns, proximities of large bodies of water, etc.
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Proposed Bash Program
You know you really love the U.S. Air Force when you find yourself driving out to the base sewage lagoons at o'dark thirty to turn on the "bird scare" cannons as your buds, who are on the flying schedule, start turning over their motors for another day "slipping the surly bonds." When I served as the Chief of Flight Safety for a fighter base over 10 years ago, I came to view the Bird Avoidance Strike Hazard (BASH) program as a war on birds. My former colleagues from the bas...
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