Keeping birds off boats. How?

[Frosty]

Bird spiders???

[longliner45]

I was in south America,yes there are spiders that eat birds!

[Vega]

Originally Posted by Dave 65

We have a real problem with ducks and geese on our docks. We tied cds to a string and placed them around the dock. Not a single bird has come back.

take a look:

http://www.martleyelectronics.co.uk/...epeller_ribbon

[Toot]

Originally Posted by Vega

Why the hell would they want to call the gulls instead of sending them away? Unless they can emit a distress gull call that made all the gulls run away.

Well, maybe you can buy that solar-power source and secretly mount it on to somebody else's boat way over on the other side of the marina!

Boy, what a practical joke that would be!!!

[KnottyBuoyz]

Originally Posted by Toot

Well, maybe you can buy that solar-power source and secretly mount it on to somebody else's boat way over on the other side of the marina!

Boy, what a practical joke that would be!!!

I did something similar with a stray cat. Put a can of sardines under my neighbors (who hates cats) porch. Every stray in the neighborhood now makes their nightly stops (and deposits) on her porch much to the distress of her two dogs!!! *lol* Almost backfired when the family of racoons moved into her deck box! hehehe

Evil, but I luv it. But you know? There's no birds in her yard anymore either!

Rick

[Raggi_Thor]

http://www.sveisenett.no/produkter/t...20roterende%22

You see?
It's a gas bottle, a burner and a timer!

Sorry, no burner, it's just a big bang...

[Poida]

Hanging CDs, amkes me think of those gadgets that you send morse code by, a shiney disc with a hole in the middle so you can line it up with aircraft or other boats. Now imagine twenty CDs all flashing in the sun. But, with all those people coming to rescue you, they might scare off all the birds.

[Raggi_Thor]

What about the large "rotors" blowing in the wind?
I don't know what they are called but they are quite common here.

[Poida]

They're bloody helicopters Raggi

[Raggi_Thor]

yea, wind driven

[hansp77]

Ok,
I just spent the day scrubbing bird crap off my boat.

I was simply amazed at the different substances that were coating my deck. Black, white, grey, chalky, gritty, chunky, sticky runny etc...
luckily it was just warm enough to swim, so every time I would start to gag or shudder, I would just jump in the water (to jump out about 1.5 seconds later).
Unfortunately the deck is painted with that granular grip paint, which seems to have formed both a chemical and physical bond to the crap.

Weired stuff has been happening, in some spots the bird mess has actually peeled and flaked off paint, down to the primer.

The most annoying thing today- the recent high winds, having decimated the tarp that was over the boom, had also undone my boom cover so that there is now bird crap all over my main sail.

Makes me very unhappy.
I have covered it up (properly now) and shall try to deal with it later.

This stuff is so hard to get rid of.

Aside from getting rid of the birds- (next time I go out I am going to try to net the whole boat)
any magic remedies of getting rid of the crap?

Much obliged.

Hans.

[Hotel Lima]

I was a part of the disecting team on the Mig-25, It's radar is powerfull enough to kill rabbits on the side of the runways.

[Smoothride]

Hotel Lima;

Victor Belyenko's Mig 25? In Japan?

Cheers,

SR

[longliner45]

hans in the fall of the year the birds eat berrys,,high in acid , that why it goes to the primer,,

[Smoothride]

Longliner;


Why do you know that???? So if I ate a bunch of berries and crapped/peed on my car, the paint would come off? Fascinating! Boy, you could get back at enemies by eating lots of fruit/berries, then relieve yourself on their cars.

I saw a boat in the marina the other day that had a bunch of strips of some kind of paper/material that rustled in the wind hanging off every imaginable vertical surface/ standing rigging etc...

I believe I've seen plastic owls mounted on them too. Liveaboards with dogs are probably safe (I wonder if my little Bichon would do the trick, they might just caw/peep/cackle/squawk at him ).

What the hell is wrong with me, it's 4:20am on a Saturday and I'm writing to no one on a forum, because no one esle is awake. I'm going back to sleep. See y'all.

SR