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| california tumbles into the sea |
...flying rats. shit everywhere. Will an owl scarecrow keep them away? | ||
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I used to use one, had limited but some success. I resorted to hunting with a pellet gun every morning, that worked pretty well. Also cleaning out their nests if accessible helps quite a bit. -c1steve | |||
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| california tumbles into the sea |
got a nest taken care of couple years ago, with spikes in the front in perch areas. now it's the back porch (no nests thankfully). | |||
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No. I’ve seen them fake owls with pigeon crap all over. I had pigeon problem. I had someone install spiky strips where they tend to roost. At a doctors building, they had a box that emitted predator sounds. It works but expensive outlay. "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946. | |||
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| california tumbles into the sea |
There's predator action around... a couple houses down I saw a Peregrine falcon on top of a grackle, proned out - neck turned and seemingly still alive. Slowed down and when I'm right next to them I see the falcon fly off, look down expecting to see the grackle and it's gone also. | |||
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f2. The pigeons are a PITA here as you have learned. You could do like someone in for the rodeo (making an assumption) last week and trap them and put little cowboy hats on their heads. The PETA activist they had on the local news says they mate for life so the hats could make them unattractive enough to interrupt the breeding cycle. :-) | |||
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| I can't tell if I'm tired, or just lazy  |
A scarecrow might work briefly, but the pidgeons soon learn that it is not a threat to them and ignore it. Living in the country as I do, snipeing them with a pellet gun or .22 isn't a problem but for you folks living in a city I can see where a solution can be quite problematic. _____________________________ "The problems we face today exist because the people who work for a living are outnumbered by those who vote for a living." "Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" Benjamin Franklin | |||
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They do not work, pop a cap in a couple of their asses and the word will spread | |||
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This. Be sure to leave the carcasses where they fall. This works great for Crows as well. Jim ________________________ "If you can't be a good example, then you'll have to be a horrible warning" -Catherine Aird | |||
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My experience too ! | |||
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Crows and pigeons are smart, unlike humans who often do not learn from experience. Canadian geese are also very smart. The only method to get them to move on from the Horicon Marsh area is to have low flying helicopters buzz them. The booming cannons to scare them worked for a day and then they learned. When the geese leave the protected marsh area they take off from the middle so that they gain proper height to keep them out of range from the hunters outside the marsh. | |||
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| california tumbles into the sea |
My former neighbor's son shot pigeons and grackles next door. Once, one fell on my side and he rang the doorbell and I fetched it for him lol. So what's a good budget break action iron sight pellet gun? .177 or .22? | |||
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Had doves crapping on our gazebo so I mounted one of those owls on the peak of the roof. Doves paid no attention to it at all. | |||
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I heard some where that they would work on my garden pest. I bought two of the bobble headed ones ,they kept the birds off the wobbly heads ,birds don't like roost that wobble. | |||
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Only the strong survive |
I have read that the owls with flapping wings work some what: https://www.tractorsupply.com/...-_-Product-_-1284503 41 | |||
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I used a very accurate pellet gun, with a scope. Killed about 100 of them. However being a pump gun where the barrel was the lever, the pivot eventually loosened. As the scope was mounted on the receiver, the gun would not hold zero after a while. If it was affordable, I would buy a side cocker and mount a scope. However air rifle scopes are often built differently to handle the changed recoil pulse. Possibly with modern air rifles this is not necessary, but I do not know. -c1steve | |||
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Caveat - not bashing officers. "Hate the game not the player". I've thought of this as well but I've been concerned that doing this could result in a very unwelcome visit from LVMPD if a nosy neighbor took exception. I'd at least take this into consideration. | |||
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I have one but I haven't had to use it at my current house. I used to have a big tree that hung over the driveway where I parked and they pooped on my car a lot. I got the decoy and hung it with a wire from the top so it moved in the breeze. It worked great for me. armadill0 | |||
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We have them on the edges of the roofs, on two buildings, around the parking area at our church. There are usually pigeons and sometimes other birds setting around, often next to them. * * * * * * * High capacity is not an acceptable substitute for good marksmanship. | |||
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| california tumbles into the sea |
Good point. For some reason the last two days they haven't come around... knock on wood. | |||
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