This is for the birds...

[joe_commander]

Hey Kermit:
Being a land lubber all my life, and an avid birder, I know that every bird on earth is terrified of Owls and Hawks (falcons etc). Try putting a decoy anywhere a few feet up above the roof.
joe

 

[Pat]

Why can't you see the top of the mast when sailing? Probably a stupid question....Pat

 

[Kermit]

Why can't you see the top of the mast when sailing? Probably a stupid question....Pat

Not a stupid question at all. I probably could see it but I don't want to have to strain my neck to look at it. (I had one on my H23 and hated it.) I use cassette tape on the shrouds at pretty-much eye level. Yes, I've read the reasons why it's not as accurate as awindex at the top of the mast. A strained neck just isn't worth it to me.

 

[little breeze]

I have heard a old CD from a string hanging scares the birds cheap trick

 

[PaulK]

Those coathangers may keep the birds off, but think what might happen in a lightning storm! The bird-scaring LED /ultrasonic thing may annoy the neighbors as much as the birds. Plastic spikes seem to work in our mooring field. We don't like the windage or look so we string monofilament which you can't see from the deck. It discourages cormorants for us. The ospreys don't seem to roost on masts around here.

 

[RoyS]

Once worked in a large two story industrial plant with a huge roof seagull problem. Someone determined that plastic owls mounted every twenty feet along the perimeter parapet wall should do the trick. I arrived in the parking lot about 9 AM to observe the contractor installing the fifth owl in the first row. Half a dozen seagulls were hiding behind fourth owl along the wall watching the installer fastening the next one twenty feet away. I got a good laugh. Sorry no picture.

 

[Justin_NSA]

 

[jibes138]

Haul a speaker up the mast and PLAY a CD of Bald Eagle calls on a never ending loop at full volume. You might attract a few bald eagles but get rid of everything else. I watched a blue heron eat a frog one day, he really worked at it to get the legs in the right direction to slide down that long neck.

 

[shemandr]

I watched a blue heron eat a frog one day, he really worked at it to get the legs in the right direction to slide down that long neck.

Kermit - move on. Nothing to see here.

 

[Kermit]

I watched a cormorant trying to swallow a catfish that was almost too big for him. I truly thought the catfish was gonna win. Especially once the spike passed the point of no return. The cormorant eventually got it all the way down.