[TowerTalk] snakes and owls vs pigeons

[Jim Spears]

Rubber snakes and plastic owls work fine to fend off pigeons BUT after a
short time, if the object never moves or grabs a bird then the birds become
accustomed to it and ignore it.  

 

I worked for a time at a place that had an outdoor cafeteria seating area,
this in San Diego on top of Point Loma.  They had a lot of trouble with
scrub jays.  So they put out a bunch of rubber snakes.  For a few days you
would see the jays way back in the bushes but they finally decided that the
snakes were just decorative objects and returned to raiding unattended
plates.

 

Jim/N1NK

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