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Are The Birds Crapping All Over Your Boat??

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Created by Zzzzzz > 9 months ago, 11 Sep 2018
Zzzzzz
513 posts
11 Sep 2018 6:41PM
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Is the $80 scare the hell out the shags owl making friends with all its feathered friends? And having a party at your expense leaving a very smelly pile of crap all over your boat?
Well last night I watched as a cheap solar light , the one with a senser kept coming on every so often from the waves on a mates yacht while he was away.
When he got back I asked him if he knew if it kept the birds away when it came on, apparently it does it scares them off thought it wasn't a bad idea.

Bananabender
QLD, 1600 posts
11 Sep 2018 8:56PM
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Nope, never .
This channel marker with sea eagle nest ( currently two chicks) is at entrance to the canal my boat is in and they fish in the canals . Only birds that come near are Swallows in season and plovers.


2bish
TAS, 819 posts
12 Sep 2018 4:27PM
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We're trying something new that is working. We have an old motor boat mooring minder right next door to us on the swing moorings. It has a nice flat top cabin that is a perfect home for the cormorants and Pacific gulls. It took them a year to find our boat, but they have started to hang out on the Bimini frame and pulpit. We put a row of those boat pegs on the spots that birds like to land and it puts them off. It's doing the trick, no poo over the past month or so.

Sorry couldn't rotate the image... (is that possible in this forum?)



DAMA
QLD, 239 posts
12 Sep 2018 6:52PM
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Had some issues with swallows one year, found those little windmills for kids birthday do a good job of keeping birds away.. as long as the wind is blowing


2bish
TAS, 819 posts
12 Sep 2018 7:43PM
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DAMA said..
Had some issues with swallows one year, found those little windmills for kids birthday do a good job of keeping birds away.. as long as the wind is blowing



Good idea, fun and colorful too!

DAMA
QLD, 239 posts
12 Sep 2018 8:26PM
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2bish said..

DAMA said..
Had some issues with swallows one year, found those little windmills for kids birthday do a good job of keeping birds away.. as long as the wind is blowing



Good idea, fun and colorful too!


They make a bit of noise and they also vibrate along the lifelines .

TKNick
NSW, 123 posts
12 Sep 2018 9:54PM
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Get one of these to move on board for a few weeks. Not had to clean bird poo off in 3 years. Perhaps birds have a long memory



2bish
TAS, 819 posts
12 Sep 2018 10:14PM
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TKNick said..
Get one of these to move on board for a few weeks. Not had to clean bird poo off in 3 years. Perhaps birds have a long memory




Ok ok! Snakes trump pegs and spinny wheels...

cisco
QLD, 12346 posts
12 Sep 2018 11:40PM
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DAMA said..

2bish said..


DAMA said..
Had some issues with swallows one year, found those little windmills for kids birthday do a good job of keeping birds away.. as long as the wind is blowing




Good idea, fun and colorful too!



They make a bit of noise and they also vibrate along the lifelines .


I am sold!!!

boty
QLD, 685 posts
13 Sep 2018 7:57AM
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TKNick said..
Get one of these to move on board for a few weeks. Not had to clean bird poo off in 3 years. Perhaps birds have a long memory




and he looks cute as well.We let a 10 footer i got off a mates farm go in the shed to keep the possums down worked a treat



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