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Plastic Owls
Posted on 7/1/21 at 5:15 pm
Posted on 7/1/21 at 5:15 pm
Do plastic owls actually work as bird deterrents in a boat house? Damn sparrows are shitting all over our boats. Any other suggestions. 
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Posted on 7/1/21 at 5:40 pm to EveryoneGetsATrophy
“A blend of peppermint oil and citronella is proven to emit a smell that is offensive to birds but quite pleasant to humans. Touch. The gel properties make Optical Gel sticky if the birds do touch it.“
Heard of people on Eufaula doing this in a sprayer
Heard of people on Eufaula doing this in a sprayer
Posted on 7/1/21 at 5:47 pm to EveryoneGetsATrophy
My father in law uses one in his carport and it seems to work pretty well. He's never had any birds build a nest under it
Posted on 7/1/21 at 6:33 pm to EveryoneGetsATrophy
Do you have a kid <12 yrs old?
Bb gun. Box of bb’s. Maybe dont say shoot the sparrows but dont discourage?
just jokes greens jeans. I think they are protected so maybe you go the route of the owls
Bb gun. Box of bb’s. Maybe dont say shoot the sparrows but dont discourage?
just jokes greens jeans. I think they are protected so maybe you go the route of the owlsPosted on 7/1/21 at 7:35 pm to EveryoneGetsATrophy
I have tried them, no success.
Posted on 7/1/21 at 8:12 pm to rattlebucket
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I think they are protected so maybe you go the route of the owls
Sparrows are not protected.
Posted on 7/1/21 at 8:23 pm to EveryoneGetsATrophy
IME owls work until the birds realize it is fake, and they always realize it is fake. You might get a day, might get a month, but eventually they will figure it out.
Posted on 7/2/21 at 5:43 am to EveryoneGetsATrophy
Had the owl decoys in a warehouse to abate the pigeons. They were covered with pigeon shite.
Posted on 7/2/21 at 6:22 am to EveryoneGetsATrophy
If you move them around every couple of days, it keeps the birds on their toes. They'll wise up eventually, so I rotate one with rubber snakes in my garden.
Posted on 7/2/21 at 7:05 am to EveryoneGetsATrophy
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I’ve noticed a lot of these hanging in boat slips lately. We have an owl in ours and it does not work, so we hung one of these a couple weeks back. Jury is still out
I’ve noticed a lot of these hanging in boat slips lately. We have an owl in ours and it does not work, so we hung one of these a couple weeks back. Jury is still out
Posted on 7/2/21 at 7:07 am to bocro
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f you move them around every couple of days, it keeps the birds on their toes
That's not going to happen.
Posted on 7/2/21 at 9:12 am to EveryoneGetsATrophy
I have heard of people having success stringing fishing line up in a grid like pattern. The birds don’t like to fly into something they can’t see and they move on to someone else’s place. Are they sparrows or swallows? I would think they are swallows under a boat house. They are nasty creatures.
Posted on 7/2/21 at 7:56 pm to clickboom
Little brown sparrows.
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