BE ADVISED - FOX ON THE RUNWAY!

Wildlife at airports is a huge issue, particularly with the threat of bird strikes. Some airfields maintain grass at a certain length/height to deter birds of prey ‘seeing’ small rodents and constantly cruising the grass areas. Scare tactics include setting-off air rocket ‘bombs’ or audio of birds in distress, played-out from Opps vehicles.
Dublin (Ireland) have issues with Hares, the aircraft usually ‘giving way’ to the wildlife as they cross the active runway. This is something they (the ground teams) seem to live with.

Airfields also have issues with small ‘flocking’ birds like the starlings at Heathrow. Heathrow also have regular visits from Birds of Prey including Kites and smaller Common Buzzard. We always see these birds during our show and it’s great to see them ‘hover’ above the grass areas.
To be honest, the birds seem to be ‘savvy’ to the aircraft: staying in the safe (grass) areas to the north of the Northern runway and flying in flocks back over the fence towards....MCDONALDS 😄
We’ve even seen Swans and Geese flying across and even down the runways, these birds are big enough to be picked-up by ATC radar to notify approaching air traffic.

But this is the first time we’ve clocked the fox LHR. Apparently there’s a family living in the infield LGW, which the ops teams leave alone as they control the mice, which in turn deters the birds of prey. So it’s a constant operation, with teams dedicated to the control of wildlife. But in general, it seems the teams prefer to work ‘with’ the wildlife rather than against it - after all, they were there first.

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