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On Sun, 31 May 2015 12:34:32 +0200, Angela Dean
wrote: Brooklyn1;1014122 Wrote: Gus Overton wrote:- Anyone have ideas on how to keep birds off a deck? I had the deck recently stained and repaired and almost every day there are 2-3 bird poop on the top railings. Mourning doves seem to be the worst about doing this... And the other day, I noticed one of the top top posts was gnawed a bit. Which the squirrel has done in the past. Anyone else have these problems, and what do you do? I wash off the bird poop since that can't be good for the wood, and is unsightly.- Bird poop won't harm a wood deck, and easily washes away, rain/hose... unsightly, don't look. I personally think that part of the beauty of having a deck or a balcony is the birds that come and perch there. As many have said, simply hose it down from time to time I enjoy birds on my deck, they are gorgeous... I never even think negatively about critters pooping, it's all free fertilizer. I think those who complain about critters pooping would be much happier spending their life in a concrete prison cell, hoping they don't need to wait long to die. |
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birds on deck, and squirrel
Once upon a time on usenet songbird wrote:
Dan Espen wrote: ... The purpose of the mono-filament would be to get in the way of the perfect perch that a railing provides. The birds can't perch on it or the railing. i dunno how well it would work, but it was an idea. probably would need to be replaced once in a while, but still cheaper than other options. another thing to do could be to put dowels out from the railing to give them a perch where they could poop into the grass away from the deck. more work and expense than fishing line but at least then you can still see them. we have a few species that try to perch above my patio door, which i discourage by pounding on the wall to startle them away. sometimes they try to build a nest up there too. i have chunks of wood to put up there when that happens and they go away. dunno why the builder didn't fill in that space to begin with. a flat sill like that is just asking for bird nesting. i don't want to discourage the birds completely as some of them come around and check the eves for hornets/ wasps or spiders and they are fun to watch as they perch on the roof and look around. I used plain old string similarly tied tightly just above the top rail of my black / boysenberry framing to stop birds perching there and it worked a charm. Mind you that is thin timber - maybe with railings the birds might still have room to perch to one side of the line? -- Shaun. "Humans will have advanced a long, long, way when religious belief has a cozy little classification in the DSM*." David Melville (in r.a.s.f1) (*Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) |
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birds on deck, and squirrel
On 5/28/2015 9:32 AM, Gus Overton wrote:
Hello, Anyone have ideas on how to keep birds off a deck? I had the deck recently stained and repaired and almost every day there are 2-3 bird poop on the top railings. Mourning doves seem to be the worst about doing this... And the other day, I noticed one of the top top posts was gnawed a bit. Which the squirrel has done in the past. Anyone else have these problems, and what do you do? I wash off the bird poop since that can't be good for the wood, and is unsightly. A wire or nylon fishing line running along and above the railing will probably keep them from perching there - string it about 2" above. I have also seen grids of about 4-6" squares made from nylon fishing line to keep birds out. A flower box might be a good alternative; I have seen doves nesting in flower boxes (and on the light outside my front door ) ). |
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birds on deck, and squirrel
Brooklyn1 wrote:
Gus Overton wrote: Hello, Anyone have ideas on how to keep birds off a deck? Pussy! I had the deck recently stained and repaired and almost every day there are 2-3 bird poop on the top railings. Mourning doves seem to be the worst about doing this... And the other day, I noticed one of the top posts was gnawed a bit. Which the squirrel has done in the past. Anyone else have these problems, and what do you do? I wash off the bird poop since that can't be good for the wood, and is unsightly. No birds, no sqirrels... guaranteed! http://i59.tinypic.com/2q3tzr5.jpg http://i62.tinypic.com/1zpislz.jpg http://i62.tinypic.com/htih5c.jpg No moles, no voles, not even a mouse: http://i58.tinypic.com/29vbclw.jpg No more birds in my barn pooping on my tractor: http://i62.tinypic.com/e8s7l5.jpg http://i57.tinypic.com/30dbdl4.jpg Now if only there was a solution to the cat poop in the spinach. |
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