FILM
Kinemastik International Short Film Festival
The 18th edition of the short film festival is taking place between today and Sunday, July 31, at the M
Green Gozo, Eco Gozo, Beautiful Gozo: a reality or simply more ‘green washing’?
The truth is probably somewhere in the middle. Gozo is indeed still
Updated 2.40pm with police reaction below.
Bird callers “went silent” after uniformed police called out to investigate them in Gozo last Sunday turned up in a patrol car, the man who reported them claimed.
As a result, the bird callers got away with it, said Mark Sciberras, who captured their piercing sounds on video as he was out enjoying the Gozitan countryside.
He was walking through Għadira ta’ San Raflu, a protected rare freshwater pool, when he heard the callers, spread out in several hides, and reported them to the police.
Two officers got to the spot straightaway but their arrival – in a patrol car – prompted the callers “to fall silent”, Sciberras said.