AA7BG Matt Trott wrote:
>
> I know this MUST have come up before, but.......
>
> How do you all keep the pesky birds from whitewashing towers/antennas? I've
> been having flocks of at least a hundred perching on guylines, antennas, and
> the top plate of the tower. The guano was about an inch thick in a matter of
> weeks!
>
> I put up a plastic crow and that helped for a while. A friend put a plastic
> owl on his and it worked great for a month or so, but he looked out the
> window at his tower last week and there was a bird perched on the top of the
> owl!!
>
> Any other ideas? We don't get enough rain to rinse it all off.
>
> Sign me,
>
> Really Tworked in Montana
>
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ARMED GUARD WITH LOTS OF #8 SHOTGUN SHELLS, YOU MAY TRY GETTING
YOU A GOOD SIZE DOG AND PUTTING HIS HOUSE RIGHT UNDER THE TOWER,
OTHERWISE, NOT MUCH YOU CAN DO.....DAN
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