Situation repeated after further showers in the pm when a few thousand more gulls came for a bath in the newly formed lake...
It's almost as if there is no collective intelligence to foresee this kind of thing, certainly rain isn't a huge issue in the ME, but birds have always been an issue near costal airports.
As ever the path to increased returns comes at the expense of having robust and definable contingencies in place, in most regions you would find a bird scare team.
Isn't falconry a national pastime in the UAE? It makes you wonder
