A quiet New Year's Eve was announced in Tata. The cooperation and the common will brought success, and sixty civilians also protected the wild geese of Tata from the stampede on New Year's Eve.
As is known, more than ten thousand wild geese were chased away by fireworks and firecrackers from the Old Lake in Tata on New Year's Eve last year. This happened despite the fact that since 2018 the municipality has restricted the use of pyrotechnic devices. This was precisely the reason why the Száz Völgy Nature Conservation Association organized a program called Quiet New Year's Eve for the last day of the year, reports lelepo.hu.
Facebook post of the Hungarian Ornithological Association, a lot of organization, persistent street patrols and extensive cooperation have borne fruit. The vast majority (about 80 percent) of the thousands of waterfowl resting on the Öreg lake in Tata stayed on the lake's water.
The number of wild geese spending the night on the lake increased because new flocks arrived at the Old Lake during the night.
Tata "tested" well this year on New Year's Eve, as most of the city was calm and quiet, but only from further away, on the borders of the exclusion zone, and in the neighboring settlements, the sound of fireworks could be heard. While the usual firework war started early in the evening in the surrounding settlements, in Tata in the hours before midnight only a few illegal firecrackers and fireworks could be heard.
With the extensive participation of the Száz Völgy Nature Conservation Association, the Hungarian Ornithological and Nature Conservation Association, the Danube-Ipoly National Park Directorate, the Által-ér Association, the police, civil guards and pre-registered volunteers
patrolling began already in the afternoon in the vicinity of Öreg-tó, and from the evening the service was extended to the entire area of the city.
Thanks to the intense presence and organization, it was possible to make people intending to set off fireworks leave many places. The patrols caught people using fireworks in the act in several places and warned them that they were trying in a prohibited place.
The "Quiet Walk for Wild Geese", which was initiated for the first time this year, proved to be very popular, more than 60 people took part in this program late at night on the shore of Öreg Lake. The organizers offered them scones and champagne, and during the pleasant walk, the specialist ensured that the participants were enriched with interesting information about the wild geese and other waterfowl wintering on the lake.
Photo: Facebook / MME – Hungarian Ornithological Association
