[TowerTalk] Birds and towers

[Doug Ferrell KD4MOJ]

Be thankful that you don't have a family of Vultures that made the tower their home. Working a tower around vulture dung is not fun.

...DOUG
KD4MOJ

On Sun Jan 24 14:56 , "Lux, Jim"  sent:

>On 1/24/21 11:13 AM, Andre VanWyk via TowerTalk wrote:
>> I just completed installing two large Luso towers for a client and about to
>> start construction on mine so will have the same issue. The problem is
>> birds.  I am wondering if there is anything besides decoy owls that might be
>> worth trying to keep them from sitting and attempting to nest on these
>> towers. These towers are big and has lots of components that are full of
>> bird poop. Components are powder coated and it looks pretty bad. Any
>> suggestions (besides birdshot!) or thoughts on this subject would be
>> appreciated. The decoy owls seemed to have worked for a couple of weeks but
>> now seems useless.
>
>The birds are smart and will quickly learn to ignore anything that 
>doesn't move.
>
>You might check with the companies that sell stuff for vineyards and 
>orchards...
>
>rotating things driven by the wind seem to work (you see them on top of 
>billboards - a couple long rods on a pivot).  They might also work 
>oriented vertically.
>
>bird spikes (plastic things that make it hard to perch) - these work 
>great and they're cheap, plastic, and UV tolerant, but kind of ugly (but 
>probably not an issue on a tower application)
>
>Rotating pinwheel things driven by the wind, or the vertical rotors.
>
>The ribbons of shiny mylar sometimes work.
>
>
>They also make owls (and other scarecrows) with a clockwork mechanism 
>that rotates them periodically (solar powered, even!).
>
>Netting
>
>Noise makers - Around here, they play the sound of hawks screeching, to 
>keep the birds away from corn and veggie crops, I don't know how well 
>they work, but it screeches about every 1/2 hr to hour, semirandomly.  I 
>suspect it is highly "species" dependent.
>
>
>
>
>_______________________________________________
>
>
>
>_______________________________________________
>TowerTalk mailing list
>TowerTalk at contesting.com
>http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/towertalk