A local church had a problem with pigeons. After the roof was replaced the
roofers put several large owls. On the peak of the roof after about a month the
pigeons were seating on top of the owls.
Paul
W3PLP
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> On Feb 17, 2018, at 7:49 PM, Bill <bmarx@bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
> Try the plastic snakes on your boom too, to scare birds. It works...
>
> Ill take temporary relief over nothing at all.
> Bill
>
>
>> On 2/17/2018 1:21 PM, Patrick Greenlee wrote:
>>
>> Bill, The boating community often recommends plastic snakes to keep birds
>> from roosting and pooping all over your boat. With over 30 years of boating
>> experience in the San Diego California region I witnessed lots of folks
>> using plastic snakes. You can tell the new guys at the yacht club by their
>> new plastic snakes. Over time the birds get used to the snakes and totally
>> ignore them.
>>
>> I know of no long term success with plastic snakes. Experienced boaters I
>> have known agreed that collectively we had never seen a long term success
>> using plastic snakes. Phony owls are also touted but they too lose
>> effectiveness fairly rapidly. I've seen birds perched on the owls head
>> pooping on it.
>>
>> Geese and other birds have hearing that extends higher in freq than normal
>> humans. I say normal because in my mid 20's my left ear went to 21,500 Hz
>> and my right ear went to about 20,500 Hz. I could hear bats feeding,
>> ultrasonic alarms, etc. Now I wear $6000 hearing aids from the VA thanks to
>> small arms fire and other loud noises.
>>
>> Something that works and doesn't lose efficacy from birds getting used to it
>> is ultrasonics used intermittently more or less randomly unless used with IR
>> motion detector or other detection apparatus. I have used ultrasonics very
>> successfully to keep away various pests including birds. Places with large
>> flocks of geese have nice lawns "goose greased" so badly you can't walk
>> through without getting your shoes messed up. I have recommended ultrasonics
>> to lakefront home owners who had great success with repelling their Canada
>> geese. The geese soon learned to avoid that lawn and stay on his neighbors
>> lawns farther from the transducers. Word spread and some of his neighbors
>> went ultrasound also with great success. Only a few houses stayed
>> unprotected, a couple were only used a week or two a year, did not add
>> ultrasound (that I am aware of) but were partially protected by neighbors
>> with ultrasound.
>>
>> Geese have pretty good ultrasonic hearing. To them bursts of high levels of
>> ultrasound is what having a steam whistle go off in our ear is like. Some
>> ultrasound pest repellent gear has selectable freq bands so you can avoid
>> bugging cats and dogs or include cats and dogs and they will avoid the area
>> too.
>>
>> Decades back the lab where I worked had an oceanographic tower anchored to
>> the bottom of the ocean just off the coast from San Diego. Seagulls used it
>> for a big bird perch and pooped all over everything on it. Seagulls were
>> captured and "lightly tortured" within limits of animal cruelty
>> organizations and their distress cries were recorded. These were played
>> back at random intervals and worked pretty good but over time lost
>> effectiveness. You don't get used to pain from powerful ultrasound, it
>> always hurts if you can hear it.
>>
>> Patrick NJ5G
>>
>>> On 2/16/2018 5:03 PM, Bill wrote:
>>> Try some plastic snakes....
>>> Bill W2CQ
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> On 2/15/2018 9:42 PM, Patrick Greenlee wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Since this not
>>>>>> where squirrels are out, and the ground hogs appear to still be
>>>>>> hibernating I think the
>>>>>> culprit is a goose. The coax looks more like it is pulled apart than
>>>>>> cut.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Has anyone had a similar occurrence?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>> Around here (south central Oklahoma) the gophers are bad about chewing up
>>>> direct burial cables. Need to use conduit. They don't seem to chew up PVC
>>>> pipe/conduit. A notable exception is the direct bury phone lines with
>>>> which I have never had a problem.
>>>>
>>>> Many folks don't appreciate the gooses bite. They can bite quite hard and
>>>> have a raspy insides to their mouths. They bite down hard and then twist
>>>> their heads. Pretty vicious.
>>>>
>>>> Patrick
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