[TowerTalk] Canada geese
Bill
bmarx at bellsouth.net
Sat Feb 17 19:49:38 EST 2018
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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