It’s going to be VERY loud in downtown Orillia today.
The Downtown Orillia Management Board (DMB) has been granted an exemption to the municipal noise bylaw to employ a bird scaring noise cannon to frighten off pesky seagulls.
The cannon would be shot off “not more than” once every two hours between 7 a.m. and 8 p.m. to deter seagulls from nesting in the downtown area.
The board says, “Preventing the seagulls from nesting downtown is not only good for business by preventing mess and damage to buildings, it is also safer for the baby seagulls who often do not survive falling off of the two- to four-storey buildings while attempting to learn to fly.”