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Ground - Leader 3. Good morning. Happy New Year!

Leader 3 - Ground. Good morning. Happy New Year!

And you can occupy Foxtrot.

Occupying Foxtrot. Leader 3. Thank you.

January 1st, already

and 6:29.

Just chased a fox off to the West.

We have another guest sitting here.

Let’s try to drive closer.

I’ll show you what it is.

Come on, fly away.

Scarecrow 5. No birds and animals on runway. Proceed via Foxtrot.

Proceeding via Foxtrot. Scarecrow 5.

In the mornings I feel you do everything on autopilot.

You know you’re half awake.

You haven’t had any coffee

and the first time you drive on the runway

and ask for permission, it is a little surreal.

I have dreamed many times that I have driven onto the runway without permission.

It’s the moment of the greatest responsibility.

You can’t drive there without asking permission.

Well...

Did you see? They are really angry.

They were swearing. - Really swearing.

They’re in a bad mood this morning.

They stepped out of the nest with their left foot.

1,7m

We screwed these spikes on these fences too.

Buzzards and falcons would sit there.

Now, there’s far fewer of them.

5. - 5?

10, 2.80...

Master - Scarecrow.

Air Baltic experienced a bird strike after lift off from the runway.

Yes, I think I saw it.

I think the bird hit the jet stream.

He was completely blown apart by stream.

I saw how the Air Baltic plane took off.

Ah, no - just half of it.

It’s not hit by jet stream?!

You can hang it on your hat.

Good morning! There’s grass burning to the South from Lima.

Between Lima and Kilo.

Thanks.

Give me pressure!

Fire 2 - 42.

Give us normal pressure!

Riga Tower - Air Baltic 111. Ready for departure.

Air Baltic 111. Line up runway 1.8 and wait.

Bird scaring in progress. - Line up and wait, Roger.

Riga Tower - Scarecrow 5.

Request to use flare gun.

Scarecrow 5 - Tower. Approved.

Approved use of flare gun.

Leader 1. Request use flare gun for bird scaring.

Leader 1 - Tower. Approved.

Approved. Leader 1.

Air Baltic 9811.

Flare guns will be used to scare the birds away.

Roger.

Scarecrow 5. Before that Finnair, do you also want to enter?

Yes, yes.

Yes, some 30 seconds before Finnair we’ll see if they are crossing the runway or not.

Understood.

So, they are not crossing there.

We need to look here.

Well, Baltic, take off!

Come on, come on.

There’s a hare running. - Oh so it is.

Where is it here?

I just drove past the Hotel.

He’s here between the Hotel and the camera that stands in the meadow.

Got it. Many thanks. And hello by the way.

Where’s ‘Good morning’?

I’m running with a hare to the 4th apron.

Maybe you could somehow block him off on the Foxtrot path by DHL.

He’s running along the fence and I want to get him to run out through the gate.

I can be there in 2 minutes.

Go left, go left!

No, don’t run there. Yes, yes!

Poor thing. I feel really sorry for him. He’s exhausted.

We have already run from the bomber to this end twice.

Good luck. Call me if you need to.

A farewell greeting.

There, he’s gone.

It worked!

I didn’t believe it myself.

You need a shovel here.

I could hit one at least, I’m starting to get sick of this.

This one is not lucky. Well, I don’t know.

No, the whole wing is in a mess.

She’s still alive.

Hold on.

Listen, we have a seagull by Stage 19 that is stuck in the barbed wire.

I’ll try to get it out somehow in case the alarm goes off.

There’s no way we can do it with that net.

No. it’ll get stuck in the wire. I’ll try with the other end.

Won’t this come off? - Fixed it on.

If you take it with your gloves, I’ll soon get it out.

You can’t reach it? Just don’t tear it down.

She keeps getting caught.

It’s not broken.

We could put it somewhere on the other side of the fence.

Don’t peck at your wing! What are you doing?

She’s okay. Just her leg a little, and wings are a bit damaged.

But there’s nothing else wrong with her. She’s still quite lively.

Her other leg is fine.

Evelina, when you finish inspecting the runway, call me.

We’ll meet somewhere. I have something interesting to tell you about a beaver.

Okay, agreed.

Hi!

Do you want to know where the beaver is living?

Well?

The beaver has made a dam for us.

Quite fresh. The level is at least half a meter higher.

Riga Ground - Fire 4. Foxtrot vacated to fire station. One unit.

Fire 4. Foxtrot vacated.

Aldis will have done a big job.

Messed up the beaver’s life.

Or made it more interesting. I don’t know.

Approved to occupy Foxtrot. Proceed to Alpha.

Test. Can you pass a Year 2 test on the natural sciences?

I’m scared to even try.

If a white hare is white in winter, then what colour is he in summer?

Well he’s not really white like he is in the winter.

In winter, he is white, but in the summer he's kind of grey,

but he’s not a grey hare. He’s not as grey as the grey hare.

He’s more brown. He’s still kind of brown, kind of grey.

He’s not brown, or a brownish grey.

The options are white or grey.

There’s one dead bird lying here.

By 302. Understood. Thanks, Valdemars. Don’t touch it.

Riga ground - Scarecrow 5. Foxtrot vacated to apron. Thank you.

Foxtrot vacated.

It’s a monster, not a bird lying there.

A goldfinch.

What? - Goldfinch. - Goldfinch? - Yes.

A goldfinch. I was thinking those are also goldfinches. Yes, a goldfinch.

Another is the same size but one is bigger.

The bigger one could be a starling. We’ll have a look right away.

Depends on the morning.

I think the record is 15 or 16 birds.

What’s that? There’s something else, isn’t there?

Latvia’s smallest bird. A goldcrest.

He’s warming up. He wants to get warm.

We caught him by the terminal.

He was out for a walk.

He was frozen. He’s warming up,

but who are you?

Some kind of flycatcher, aren’t you?

Well, let’s let him out. - Wait, I’ll photograph him.

Well, take the photo.

Well, fly out.

Drive him out.

Good bye! He’s flown away..

After 10 minutes. Thanks.

Yes, I’m already on my way to the Postman.

Good 5.1.2

Yes 5.1.2

But the coffee gets cold.

There is the captain.

He’s taking a photo under the wing.

Let’s go and have a peep.

Hello. I am about the bird strike.

Yeah, we had a...

A wing!

It's here.

So the flaps were down.

It's in between here and ten miles.

Somewhere. - Maybe, yeah.

OK, I also write the report,

but I'll make a picture.

So, let’s take a photograph of it.

The image isn't big.

But you can see well enough.

A bird has been found. Its remains are not on the runway.

Good morning. - Good morning. Alcohol check.

Blow.

Thanks.

Pass number.

Signature.

Well then, let’s go?

No, I don’t especially want to do anything.

If someone could simply pay me to do nothing,

that would be good.

But I wouldn’t want anyone to pay me to go fishing,

There wouldn’t be any taste to it.

I wouldn’t like fishing anymore, most likely.

But, I would probably not like doing nothing if I were getting paid for it.

Do you need to get on the runway? - Yes.

Whether she caught something or not, we don’t know.

But she has tried to dig for something.

Well, in and out again in one place.

She got out here afterwards.

Redtail.

These are fresh prints.

Ah, look where the mouse has dived in!

It dives in and runs out. Nice!

I don’t even know, maybe he is still here.

He’s been here.

He’s not here now.

Although he’s been here at some point in the last few days.

Because this paw-print wasn’t here.

Well at least I didn’t notice it yesterday.

I don’t know. There is no hare.

A plastic bird.

I think it’s made of rubber.

It's definitely from those who walk dogs outside.

Look, there are dog hairs on it. I think it’s simply been thrown over.

Central. This is a bird and animal control specialist.

Listen, you have a sign 25 here by Plot 25, which has been torn out.

Should I pick it up so that it doesn’t blow away?

He doesn’t want to leave. He thinks there’s water.

He wants to sit. He’s already tired.

Are you ready to jump out and catch him by the neck?

Here are some gloves. Just with our bare hands?

You can do it with your hands.

To the other side.

Now he’s flying higher now he’s rested, or been in training.

Scarecrow 5, Where is the swan?

Will now be gone.

Riga Tower - Scarecrow 5. Critical area vacated. Swan scared away.

Ground - Scarecrow 5.

Informing you that a hare has once again run onto the runway.

He’s now on runway by November.

Scarecrow 5.

Air Baltic. For your information,

there is a rabbit on the runway somewhere between EKO and November.

Copy.

Look!

Yeah, some kind of hawk. A falcon.

Go on, take the hare!

No, he won’t take him. He’s just chasing him.

You won’t get him like that. - I almost got him.

Then you have to throw it over him. - I’m about to.

Fuck!

Got him!

There you go. Great job, Aldis!

Fox, fox, little fox.

Okay.

Opposite Quebec.

Ground - Scarecrow 5. Good evening.

Scarecrow 5 - Ground. Good evening.

Scarecrow 5. I am currently at Quebec,

and I am looking at a fox in the hundred-meter zone, opposite Quebec.

How are we with traffic?

If you go now, we can give you 4 or 5 minutes before the next landing.

Yes, that could be enough time, so request cross foxtrot to green area.

Scarecrow 5. Approved cross Foxtrot to green area.

What are you going to do?

This one’s a real sportswomen.

She’s going to run where she wants.

You can’t get her anywhere at all.

She’ll run around the car and that’s it.

Tower - Scarecrow 5. Runway vacated via November.

Will you run over? Will you jump over?

Hurrah! Bravo!

Let's report to the Tower.

Ground - Scarecrow 5.

Scarecrow 5 - Ground. Yes, we saw it jump over the fence.

Oh, how sharp-eyed you are. Exactly, thank you.

Thank you.

I went for a swim

in the Mergupe.

That’s why I didn’t get anywhere for a day. I was drying the uniform, washing it.

What were you in Mergupe for?

I wanted to sneak up on a trout, smart guy.

And? - And I swam!

Damned swimmer! - Fool!

I got home. My wife said she hadn’t seen me so wet for 8 or 9 years.

Well, okay, I could get caught up somewhere and fall in,

but when you do it, well, I have no more questions.

There was ice, and in the middle a little snow.

I thought.. I didn't go right to the middle.

What can you do?

Aldis, Aldis...

Aldis. - Eriks.

Eriks? - We haven’t seen each other for ages.

And when did you start working here?

I've been here since 2pm.

Let’s go. - I’ve just been.

Have you? As you want.

I have no colleagues. None!

Hey, have you signed up for English courses? - What?

Have you signed up for English?

I would like to ask Aldis to read to me from second exercise,

where there was the Present Perfect. Will you be able do it?

Yes.

Has your English teacher every asked you to do you homework online?

Yes, only not ‘every’, but ‘ever’.

Yes, ‘ever’.

Has your English teacher ever asked you to do your homework online?

Yes, ‘do your homework..’ - ...homework online.

Then there is really no reason for you to be on these courses!

No, no, no!

OK.

One more question.

The weather is (simple, awful, rich, close) today.

Let’s stay inside.

I think ‘awful’.

The weather is awful today.

Awful weather. I don’t think this kind of weather was forecast.

When the coltsfoots at the northern end come out,

then vimba starts to bite.

Today, I saw 5 or 6 flowers.

That’s just the start.

When there are at least 15 out, then you can go fishing.

I hope he smells it. I’ll put all of it down.

The ants will carry all of it right away.

You know if we find that cat, then he’ll have something to eat.

Yes.

All of it’s been eaten. There’s nothing left.

You want to take him? - Yes.

I’ll open it up. If he lets you.

From this end.

I wouldn’t pick him up like that.

He doesn’t peck so hard.

Well, try.

His poor tail.

What kind of magpie has no tail?

Come here.

I don’t want to pick him up.

He probably knows that things will only get worse for him.

It won’t be worse. I’ll handle him gently.

I will force him.

Ah finally!

Hi!

We’ll need to go for food again.

We’ll put it in afterwards, later in the evening..

Are you going to catch more magpies?

No, not especially.

I’ll give you Karlis’s cup.

But is there sugar? - There is sugar.

That’s good. - But I don’t have this kind of coffee.

You’ll have to pinch some from Mareks or from Evelina.

Because I sometimes drink instant.

No.

I don’t drink ground coffee.

After I got back from Germany, I came down with a bad case of gastritis.

That’s not so bad. I had gastritis, then an ulcer. It went away.

Give me the sugar. - Here you are.

Yes, Andris. Can you go?

Yes, I’ll do it now. Yeah, Aigars, I’ll put the cones out.

Okay, thanks, Aldis. - Okay, fine.

Put cones out at both ends.

Okay, thanks. On my way.

The coffee, we’ll drink later.

Close it diagonally. At more of an angle.

Perfect.

Don’t carry them so far, Eriks!

We’re just blocking the road off.

You could put one a little further out,

but we’re just blocking the lane, look where the service road is.

There are, there are.

There are worms.

Lots - Lots, yeah

Now, I’m worried about those white birds of ours.

But let’s drive around the circuit slowly,

and have that coffee a little quicker.

At times like these, I don’t like to sit in the office and drink coffee.

Not when you know that there are worms on the runway.

Each one takes his side of the runway.

Behind the lights near the green zone. Which side will you take?

Doesn’t matter. The right hand side. - Well it’s either east or west.

West is that side, it’s the left side. - Okay.

East is the right side.

We turn the brushes so that when we’re driving,

they sweep towards the green area.

You’ll see the worms there.

I'll request it from the end.

It's a glide path there. There I’ll ask for one more.

We drive to the very end.

The one who is driving on the eastern side...

Let’s say, me, yeah.

Yeah, you drive in and turn to the holding area,

but don’t drive past the holding point.

It’s just me, and I can’t, damn it, see quickly.

Holding. That’s with the red lights are across.

Yes, but not from that side.

There are yellow lines there.

You turn inside for 2 or 3 meters and, okay I will drive behind you more.

You go on that side.

Okay, let’s drive. Listen to the walkie-talkie!

Scarecrow 5. Good morning!

Scarecrow 5. On Deicing South. Request occupy Foxtrot proceed to holding point Alpha.

My intention work on runway 3 units.

He went to have a coffee.

Something like that.

Scarecrow 5. Will you enter the 100 meter zone?

My intention is to drive along both sides of the runway

to clear off the worms to reduce the number of seagulls during the day,

and that will take no more than 10 minutes.

But, I’ll also need to take a Glide path 3.6. I’ll request for it there.

The tractors will just go along the edges of the runway

and clean off the worms with brushes.

Understood. Scarecrow 5 approved to occupy Foxtrot 3 units.

Approved by Foxtrot 3 units proceed to the holding point Alpha.

Scarecrow 5. Thanks.

Are they listening or not? - I don’t know.

Where’s that one going? - Don’t drive to that side! Drive behind me!

Who’s that driving there? Don’t drive to that side.

The eastern side is the right-hand side. The left-hand side is the western side.

The left tractor needs to follow me, in the middle for the moment.

The right one can start sweeping.

Good god above!

I just said that the left side is the West. What was he listening with?

The left tractor that’s standing there can start driving on the runway.

Just here where I am. No nearer or further and also drive by lights.

Everyone, drive at a good speed. There is no need to drive slowly.

Get the brushes down and go.

You drive on the left side and I’ll go and have a look at the right-hand side.

The brushes down and set up to sweep to the green zone. Go!

Drive faster! You just have to sweep the worms away.

They have freed it for just one minute.

If we can’t do anything, lift the brushes and drive out of the 100-meter zone.

What did you find?

Something really shiny. I don’t know what it is.

A slow worm.

A nice big one.

Wait.

Put him in.

He’s been swept in.

We’ll let him out somewhere here. So he can try to live.

See where it’s easier to park.

Crawl away.

Go on.

A lark is twittering.

This is one of those calm mornings.

Yes, nothing is happening.

There aren’t even any starlings. There were 6 or 7 of them, and that’s all.

And 6 or 7 seagulls, maybe 8. I wasn’t counting. Probably 8.

Ground - Scarecrow 5. For your information,

from Charlie to Alpha, there are no bird remains on the runway.

Understood, from Charlie to Alpha no bird remains.

Can you tell me the number of the plane that reported the bird strike?

Air Baltic 6 Golf 1

Once more, please.

Air Baltic 6 code Golf 1

Thank you.

Dispatcher. For the bird.

Can you help find Baltic 6 Golf 1.

He took off this morning some 15 or 20 minutes ago.

Baltic 6 Golf 1, that is London Gatwick, from Gate 308.

Once more, please. I am interested in the registration number.

Ground - Leader 1. Good morning!

Leader 1 - Ground. Good morning!

Leader 1. My position on Quebec request occupy Foxtrot

and proceed to holding point Charlie.

Leader 1 proceed via Foxtrot.

Proceeding to Charlie via Foxtrot. Leader 1.

Dispatcher. - Yes.

That is London Gatwick.

Okay, everyone’s calling here.

Fine. Clear, Write down, maybe, on paper the flight number. Then I’ll find it.

The flight number is BT 651. But I’ll write it all down for you.

Thanks.

Hi. - Yes.

What do you want to do?

An unconfirmed collision. You still haven’t found anything, right?

Yes, but he made a statement that he had hit that bird.

Maybe that bird is hanging from his front wipers.

Tower said that there was a bird strike,

but it doesn’t matter.

We can wait for him to return and check.

Damn it. I have to get this out somehow.

Okay you still have seagulls at the end of the runway?

They are flying next to the runway.

Okay, in that case we not risking, we want to taxi off.

Scarecrow 5 - Leader 1. Approved to occupy the runway for bird scaring.

Karlis, I’m not going to do anything more on the south side.

The runway there is clear.

Nothing left to do but shoot flare guns.

Because if we’ll move them, it’ll only be worse.

We’ll see.

Clear for take off.

Every minute a Boeing uses 50 litres of fuel.

Come on guys, roll.

At the moment it’s okay.

It’s not so bad here.

Okay it’s fine.

So 110, 120,

130, 140,

150,

and so on.

I suppose there are 300 or 400 all together in the whole airport.

Look, there are quite a lot here.

Yes, 400 definitely. At least 400.

Well about 100 in each place.

Then 400, 500. I don’t know.

I wasn’t able to count.

Mareks has a sharp eye. He looked yesterday.

They were charging about like crazy over the runway,

and the worst thing is that they caused more collisions.

If they just eat, and don’t fly so much over the runway,

then there are no collisions. They just eat.

Yesterday, though, they were looking for bigger, juicier beetles.

Maybe ones with blonde hair and painted eyebrows.

Here there are more of those like this.

Smaller, bigger, with slightly different colouring.

Yesterday, there were quite a few of them as well, and there are still a lot.

Look, they’re mating.

Okay, sit on the ground.

Right he has been told to line up.

Load it. When Mareks shoots, you load too.

Shut it, and pull back the hammer.

Now? - Yes and now we shoot.

My god, I am scared. I’ll hit the tractor.

No, no, no, Like that, there. It’s enough if they see it from the side.

Like this? - Yeah.

And to the green zone right away.

To the runway, yeah? - Yes.

Now? - Yeah. Shoot!

It didn’t shoot! Damn! Okay, take it out, take it out.

Here.

But that button isn’t here!

Won’t I hit Mareks? - No, shoot in the air!

Wow, what do we have here?

I could shoot the fourth, but I don't want to.

They go that way.

Not yet, not yet.

We’re just waiting: not yet, not yet.

I feel like I’m herding cows.

But we are shepherds.

We shepherd them where it’s most convenient for us.

Mareks already shot his second one. Why couldn’t he wait? Why? Why?

Why? Why so quickly? Why?

Tell me why?

It’s even more difficult for me to work with someone else.

But seriously, why? Look, they're gone there.

It was stupid. He should have waited for a minute.

Boss, one minute and they would have gone behind the cannon,

which is when we should have shot. Before you shoot, boss, wait a minute.

You have driven them back to this end.

Then you wouldn’t have anything to do, would you?

Does it look like I don’t have anything to do?

I’ll tell him to go home.

I said ‘good morning’.

You really thought so. - Yeah, yeah.

You have taken out the glass. - Yes.

Ah, it’s so the wind blows through better. So you won’t be smoking passively.

Did I not say ‘Good morning’? What are you saying?

I said it when I called. Come on, I am not so impolite.

When you’re angry, then you don’t? - When I’m angry?

Well not angry so much as on edge. - When I’m annoyed, then yes.

Then you are angry.

Today they are crossing a lot here.

Yes, they really want to cross over. Maybe we should let them eat.

We were chasing them yesterday.

One will be taking off in 10 minutes.

A real swarm, my god!

Birds and animals calling.

We have a little problem near the new heliport.

Some bees have settled on one of the signs.

We should get rid of the swarm by flushing them off with water.

They aren’t the Belorussian ones. The Belorussian ones sting.

These don’t sting.

No Russians, either? They don’t have the letter Z on them.

If you see the queen, take her out.

You know what the problem is?

We ought to open it up because 100% they have got inside.

There’ll be honey, I reckon, in two weeks.

Hopefully, we’ll get these screws off.

There’s nothing really much there.

Hang on, underneath that? - They were probably there, weren’t they?

Yeah, they were. But under this, there’s nothing?

They are in that block.

How would it be to blow over it...

The smell remained. - Yes.

Out! Out!

Okay, let’s get hold of him.

There you are.

Get hold of him and put him outside.

There you are.

While there are no cars, run over the road.

Mareks!

I’m listening.

Do you want to catch a hare?

Where did you see it?

He‘s right by the gate 511 between Foxtrot in the green zone, by the EKO sign.

Got it. Thanks.

Hello.

Hi. - Hi.

Am I calling the right person? - Probably.

It depends who you are calling. I don’t know.

Scarecrows. Then yes, you are calling the right person. What’s up?

Right inside the territory?

And then he ran out to the apron?

On the apron. Understood.

Straight to the employee car park...

Yeah, got it. I understood, yes.

Somewhere there. I understood, yes.

Good, thank you, bye.

Well that’s a different hare,

so we have one more.

And now? What are you going to do?

We think now what we need to do.

The mother ran away.

You can get one?

You can catch one. - Oh wow, where?

Right here. The mother ran away. Escaped.

She ran away? - Yeah.

May I take a photo? - Of course.

You poor little thing!

So, we’ve arrived.

We’ll let the cuties out right away.

Right, one here and the other here.

The third one is here. There he is waiting patiently inside.

A newborn, probably.

Let’s let him out with the others.

Run, and don’t come back!

Didn’t quite make it in time. - Are you looking for the hare?

He made off from here a few minutes ago.

Yes exactly. Somewhere in the NATO square.

I’m almost there now. I am about to look for him, thanks.

He is just in front of the window by the office.

Isn’t he on the grass by us? I don’t see him.

Yeah.

Yes, dispatcher!

He’s sitting right near us behind the black VIP cars.

Yeah.

On the right from where you are. Look, he’s sitting pretty.

Yeah, I see. Thanks.

Aldis?

Damn it, everyone has to let me know.

Yeah, yeah, you need the hare, right?

Have you caught it? - Not yet.