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Heron Problem
We live within easy flight distance from the bay here in Pensacola. So we
had our visits from a Great Blue Heron. We were able to scare him away several times. I covered the pond with screen. It looked terrible. So one day I am at WalMart and in the garden dept found this 12" replica of a Barn Owl. ($8.00 and change) Someone had said Herons will not come near Owls ? Well it seems to have solved our problem. Every once in awhile I see him (or Her) flying over at about 500' or so, but it keeps going. They do have very good eye sight. I move the Owl around every couple of days. But the Heron does not return. ... Solved a problem for us hope it helps someone .. Bill Pensacola, FL |
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Bill Kerrell wrote:
We live within easy flight distance from the bay here in Pensacola. So we had our visits from a Great Blue Heron. We were able to scare him away several times. I covered the pond with screen. It looked terrible. So one day I am at WalMart and in the garden dept found this 12" replica of a Barn Owl. ($8.00 and change) Someone had said Herons will not come near Owls ? Well it seems to have solved our problem. Every once in awhile I see him (or Her) flying over at about 500' or so, but it keeps going. They do have very good eye sight. I move the Owl around every couple of days. I expect the moving is important. My friend sails for the Canadian Coast Guard 28 days at a time, and came home once to find Gulls had pooped all over his brand new truck - parked on the wharf for 28 days. So he put a plastic owl in the back, and came back next time to find they'd pooped all over the owl. I've seen the same at our harbour ferry terminal, where the pigeons have left the fake owls the same white color as everything else. Owls seem to work sometimes, but it's important to move them because other birds stop even noticing them if they never move. I guess one of the advantages of an owl over, for instance, a Red-tailed Hawk is that birds don't expect an owl to move _much_. -- derek |
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motion activated/sound emitting owl
http://www.birdbusters.com/scare_bird_owl_decoy.html ______________________ Claudia Totus Tuus |
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motion activated/sound emitting owl
http://www.birdbusters.com/scare_bird_owl_decoy.html ______________________ Claudia Totus Tuus |
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One of the most effective devices is a gatorgaurd. Floating gater head,
bobs around in the pond, moves with the wind, and in your neck of the woods, the herons would definitely know what a gator is. -- RichToyBox http://www.geocities.com/richtoybox/pondintro.html "Bill Kerrell" wrote in message news:5nRdd.51835$hj.50784@fed1read07... We live within easy flight distance from the bay here in Pensacola. So we had our visits from a Great Blue Heron. We were able to scare him away several times. I covered the pond with screen. It looked terrible. So one day I am at WalMart and in the garden dept found this 12" replica of a Barn Owl. ($8.00 and change) Someone had said Herons will not come near Owls ? Well it seems to have solved our problem. Every once in awhile I see him (or Her) flying over at about 500' or so, but it keeps going. They do have very good eye sight. I move the Owl around every couple of days. But the Heron does not return. ... Solved a problem for us hope it helps someone .. Bill Pensacola, FL |
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On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 11:22:45 -0500, "Bill Kerrell"
wrote: We live within easy flight distance from the bay here in Pensacola. So we had our visits from a Great Blue Heron. We were able to scare him away several times. I covered the pond with screen. It looked terrible. So one day I am at WalMart and in the garden dept found this 12" replica of a Barn Owl. ($8.00 and change) Someone had said Herons will not come near Owls ? Well it seems to have solved our problem. Every once in awhile I see him (or Her) flying over at about 500' or so, but it keeps going. They do have very good eye sight. I move the Owl around every couple of days. But the Heron does not return. ... Solved a problem for us hope it helps someone .. Bill Pensacola, FL I visited a trout hatchery last week They ran fishing line about a foot apart a little bit above the water. They said it confused the herons. Steve |
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I use the Owl here in Texas for the snakes (found a water moccasin in the
pond one day). Works well. When I has a heron problem, I installed a motion activited sprinkler. It was kind of fun watching the heron come in to land and getting whacked by the sprinkler spray. You can get them at most pond shops and occasionally at home depot. Jim "Bill Kerrell" wrote in message news:5nRdd.51835$hj.50784@fed1read07... We live within easy flight distance from the bay here in Pensacola. So we had our visits from a Great Blue Heron. We were able to scare him away several times. I covered the pond with screen. It looked terrible. So one day I am at WalMart and in the garden dept found this 12" replica of a Barn Owl. ($8.00 and change) Someone had said Herons will not come near Owls ? Well it seems to have solved our problem. Every once in awhile I see him (or Her) flying over at about 500' or so, but it keeps going. They do have very good eye sight. I move the Owl around every couple of days. But the Heron does not return. ... Solved a problem for us hope it helps someone .. Bill Pensacola, FL |
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And do you have to remember to disable it in order not to get sprinkled
yourself? Kirsten "laskdfpoiwq" wrote in message ... I use the Owl here in Texas for the snakes (found a water moccasin in the pond one day). Works well. When I has a heron problem, I installed a motion activited sprinkler. It was kind of fun watching the heron come in to land and getting whacked by the sprinkler spray. You can get them at most pond shops and occasionally at home depot. Jim "Bill Kerrell" wrote in message news:5nRdd.51835$hj.50784@fed1read07... We live within easy flight distance from the bay here in Pensacola. So we had our visits from a Great Blue Heron. We were able to scare him away several times. I covered the pond with screen. It looked terrible. So one day I am at WalMart and in the garden dept found this 12" replica of a Barn Owl. ($8.00 and change) Someone had said Herons will not come near Owls ? Well it seems to have solved our problem. Every once in awhile I see him (or Her) flying over at about 500' or so, but it keeps going. They do have very good eye sight. I move the Owl around every couple of days. But the Heron does not return. ... Solved a problem for us hope it helps someone .. Bill Pensacola, FL |
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And do you have to remember to disable it in order not to get sprinkled
yourself? Kirsten I have two, we humans learn, only takes getting hit a few times and you learn to turn it off before walking in front of it. ;o) Notes on the door help too. Now that I've screened the ponds and removed the sprinklers, it is still hard to walk out in "the sprinkler target zone". ~ jan ~Power to the Porg, Flow On!~ |
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we humans learn, only takes getting hit a few times and you
learn to turn it off before walking in front of it. Hmm - my wife hist the electric fence a few times (I can hear it clear across the garden) before she learns not to touch it when picking pears. The racoons only hit it once. Does this mean that the racoons are smarter than my wife........ |
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Bill Spohn wrote:
we humans learn, only takes getting hit a few times and you learn to turn it off before walking in front of it. Hmm - my wife hist the electric fence a few times (I can hear it clear across the garden) before she learns not to touch it when picking pears. The racoons only hit it once. Does this mean that the racoons are smarter than my wife........ Yes. But then racoons are probably the smartest creatures on the planet (even including white mice and dolphins). Some creatures never learn - I spent Sunday at the emergency vet clinic with my German pointer. She's had 4 encounters with porcupines, now, two of them requiring the emergency trip. -- derek |
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Bill Spohn wrote:
we humans learn, only takes getting hit a few times and you learn to turn it off before walking in front of it. Hmm - my wife hist the electric fence a few times (I can hear it clear across the garden) before she learns not to touch it when picking pears. The racoons only hit it once. Does this mean that the racoons are smarter than my wife........ Yes. But then racoons are probably the smartest creatures on the planet (even including white mice and dolphins). Some creatures never learn - I spent Sunday at the emergency vet clinic with my German pointer. She's had 4 encounters with porcupines, now, two of them requiring the emergency trip. -- derek |
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I just love it when I think it's turned off and the battery is low.....it waits until you're directly in front of it and only 2 feet away!!!!!! -- Bonnie NJ |
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we humans learn, only takes getting hit a few times and you
learn to turn it off before walking in front of it. Hmm - my wife hist the electric fence a few times (I can hear it clear across the garden) before she learns not to touch it when picking pears. The racoons only hit it once. Does this mean that the racoons are smarter than my wife........ |
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And do you have to remember to disable it in order not to get sprinkled
yourself? Kirsten I have two, we humans learn, only takes getting hit a few times and you learn to turn it off before walking in front of it. ;o) Notes on the door help too. Now that I've screened the ponds and removed the sprinklers, it is still hard to walk out in "the sprinkler target zone". ~ jan ~Power to the Porg, Flow On!~ |
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