On 6/26/2016 8:56 PM, T wrote:
On 06/26/2016 04:35 PM, George Shirley wrote:
Yesterday the fake owl and the flashing, jingling tape came in. I'm
getting ready to put enough sand in the hollow owl that it won't blow.
Plus instruction said to move the owl every two or three days as birds
will find out it isn't a predator. We shall see.

Oh you know what, if they get use to the fake owl, they might
not run from a real one and become what's for lunch. Try
to attract real ones. Maybe there is some kind of nest/bird house
they like.
We had real owls in the woods nearby and then the woods became a very
large subdivision. Common owls live around here but are mostly nocturnal
critters. Haven't seen any hawks but lots of buzzards due to the amount
of road kill around here. Barn owls like nice little houses but haven't
seen any of those. I really haven't seen any owls at all around here.

Birds, supposedly, are afraid of owls unless they don't move every day
or two. I'm planning on moving the fake owl every day, this is a very
small property with a big house on it so it should work. I'm rigging
platforms to sit the fake owl on in various places. In addition I will
be hanging out the shiny tape that makes weird noises in the wind, of
which we generally get plenty. Our home fronts on a two mile long street
that runs north and south and that's mostly how the wind blows. Behind
the house is a natural gas pipeline runs the same directions. With all
the house having six foot board fences we get two wind tunnels.