A Newfoundland woman says her 70–year–old mother is facing a $5,000 fine for feeding pigeons in her backyard in downtown St. John’s.
Jessica Rendell said the City of St. John’s charged her mother, Susan Rendell, for violating a municipal bylaw forbidding people from feeding wildlife on residential property. She said her mother has been feeding the pigeons in her backyard for more than a decade, putting food out for them on her roof or letting them eat from her hands in her garden.
The City of St. John’s wants her mother to stop feeding the birds, but her mother is not sure if she can, she said….