I've had good luck with large rubber snakes. I have one coiled around the
upper part of my tower just above the rotor placement, and another coiled
around the SteppIR boom. I've used owls, and usually mounted them on a pole
thru the bottom hole so they wobbled and turned in the wind. Found the
mocking birds one day swooping at them until they pecked their eyes out, and
switched to the rubber snakes. Seems to work very well. Even the Ospreys
stay away. They also are hung so the wind moves them.
YMMV,
Jon Hamlet, W4ZW
Casey Key Island, Florida
"A little piece of paradise in the Gulf of Mexico"
> -----Original Message-----
> From: towertalk-bounces@contesting.com
> [mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Marc
> Wullaert ON4MA
> Sent: Friday, December 22, 2006 12:23 PM
> To: 'N6KI Dennis Vernacchia'; towertalk@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Help! Lots of Birds on Tower Problem !
>
> Dennis
> i'm using a owl for then years now.It is placed on the boom
> of my 40m beam on top above my tribander beam.
> It is never on the same place and the owl is mounted on a
> system from a bikers wheel.
> He is turning on his one at his mountingplate.
>
> Before at my other qth in the city I placed the owl on my
> tower.No help because the owl stay alsways on the same
> place.People got poop on there cars.O i never forget the
> japanese tourist came over to take a picture.
>
> This summer I took down the antennas for maintanance and
> checked the owl.No colors anymore so I painted him like a snow-owl.
>
> still no birds on my tower...sometimes i have crow's flying
> around the owl and they make sense to attack him but few
> turns around and they are gone.
>
> Marc on4ma
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <rdhinkle@sbcglobal.net>
> To: "'N6KI Dennis Vernacchia'" <n6ki_73@sbcglobal.net>;
> <towertalk@contesting.com>
> Sent: Friday, December 22, 2006 3:35 PM
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Help! Lots of Birds on Tower Problem !
>
>
> >
> >
> > Hi Dennis... I'm a wildlife biologist and ham... If the
> birds you see
> > on
> the
> > tower have short tails and gold-flecks against a black feather coat,
> they're
> > probably starlings. If their tails are longer, they're either
> > blackbirds
> or
> > grackles. My guess would be starlings.
> >
> > The plastic owls only work if they're moved every few days
> (the other
> birds
> > notice that the owl hasn't been moving, and after a few
> careful tests
> > to see, learn that it's not a threat.) Noisemakers like carbide
> > cannons or whistler shells are often employed to frighten
> them away,
> > and some commercial animal control firms may have them and
> can obtain
> > the perhaps necessary permits for the temporary "shots"
> from your local government.
> (If
> > you're out in the country, with no neighbors too close, there are
> > other simpler, less expensive options...). There's a wrap that is
> > sometimes placed along ledges, etc. and could be wrapped around the
> > cross braces of your tower, but I'd think there are too
> many braces to cover economically.
> > There's also a commercial mix called "Tanglefoot" that makes a
> > temporarily sticky surface that frightens birds once
> they're landed on
> > it, and it
> would
> > probably be the next best option after the noisemakers.
> Check wildlife
> > supply places like Ben Meadows or Forestry Suppliers for
> supplies and
> > information. They both have web sites, give 'em a Google.
> >
> > Starlings tend to return to the same "safe roosts" year after year,
> > and they've probably decided that your tower now is one!
> You just have
> > to make it somehow convince them that it's "unsafe" instead.
> >
> > For what it's worth from the nature trivia end of things, there's a
> > very strict order by which they arrange themselves on
> towers or tree
> > roosts,
> with
> > the older and more dominant birds at the top, and the younger less
> dominant
> > birds arranged downward according to their status. The upshot, of
> > course,
> is
> > that the boss birds don't get wetted by those above them. If you're
> > the youngest bird, everybody above you messes on you. Kind
> of like the
> business
> > world these days...
> >
> > Let me know how it turns out ! Cheers....Bob
> >
> >
> > Bob Hinkle, KK8ZZ
> > Solon, Ohio 44139
> > Grid: EN91gj
> >
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