[TowerTalk] snakes and owls vs pigeons
Jim Spears
n1nk at cox.net
Sat Mar 17 12:27:32 PDT 2012
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
X AB6R
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