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Effective bird scarers
Malcolm wrote:
In article , sacha writes On 2014-06-24 21:14:46 +0000, Woodworm said: Snipped. Now the question: Can anyone therefore suggest a good, effective, non-noise making bird scarer that would go a very long way to scaring the little beggars off? Many thanks try uk.rec.birdwatching Except that contributors to that newsgroup are more into encouraging birds than getting rid of them! And there's enough of the little beggars now! If there is a serious health hazard, as opposed to a possible one, then approach the local council's environmental health department. EH are not interested until I can bag enough of the stuff to sell as guano to sacha! Apparently there isn't enough EH Officers to tackle such mundane problems due to the lack of funds. I hope you are not being serious when suggesting using a high velocity .22, which has a range of 45â?"50 yards, among houses, while firing a small calibre air-rifle at birds to deliberately wound them would be regarded with disfavour by, e.g., the RSPCA. 1) If I wished to do that, then it's no problem getting hold of a .22 - but there would be a problem in collecting around 50-100 bodies of jackdaws etc without the bird-loving neighbours complaining! Besides, it is unlawful to fire over my garden fence onto their property to shoot the beggars at the optimum time - when they've got their beaks into the various feeding troughs! 2) Not interested in what the RSPCA/RSPB have to say - as contrary to general belief, they cannot simply knock my door and start throwing their (biased) weight around and expect a result - they have to get the evidence to obtain a warrant first. 3) And if I wanted to actually 'knock the buggers off', why would I enquire here for the advice of any contributor who could recommend and *effective* bird scarer? And thank for you response - and accept my apologies for brutally snipping the post. That's because aioe has a limit on their post size, |
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