birds and bird droppings on bimini top
My boat sits in a marina under a fairly high (35-40 foot) steel covered slip on the Texas Gulf Coast. Recently, I have started having more problems with birds (pigeons, blackbirds and gulls) landing on my bimini top and leaving droppings. Also, some of the birds land under the steel cover on support structures and drop..
Two questions:
Does anyone have suggestions on how to keep the birds from landing on the bimini top itself? Do those fake owls, snakes, etc. help? What about some kind of netting?
Any ideas on how to keep them off the support structure?
Jim Gano
Seminole 42 GB
Jim,
Let the word get out to the local hunters that the birds are not only edible
but they are considered a delicacy in s. Louisiana. That should take care of
your problem.
Regards.
Larry
M/V Cigano, Prairie 47
Currently lying:
Bay St. Louis, MS
From: "Jim Gano" htgan@yahoo.com
Sent: Saturday, January 30, 2010 9:22 AM
To: trawlers-and-trawlering@lists.samurai.com
Subject: T&T: birds and bird droppings on bimini top
My boat sits in a marina under a fairly high (35-40 foot) steel covered
slip on the Texas Gulf Coast. Recently, I have started having more
problems with birds (pigeons, blackbirds and gulls) landing on my bimini
top and leaving droppings. Also, some of the birds land under the steel
cover on support structures and drop..
Two questions:
Does anyone have suggestions on how to keep the birds from landing on the
bimini top itself? Do those fake owls, snakes, etc. help? What about
some kind of netting?
Any ideas on how to keep them off the support structure?
Jim Gano
Seminole 42 GB
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From: "Jim Gano" htgan@yahoo.com
To: trawlers-and-trawlering@lists.samurai.com
Sent: Saturday, January 30, 2010 3:22 PM
Subject: T&T: birds and bird droppings on bimini top
My boat sits in a marina under a fairly high (35-40 foot) steel covered
slip on the Texas Gulf Coast. Recently, I have started having more
problems with birds (pigeons, blackbirds and gulls) landing on my bimini
top and leaving droppings. Also, some of the birds land under the steel
cover on support structures and drop..Snip...
Reply
A quick google showed up lots of answers, some noted below. I've never used
any of these solutions but I've seen boats equiped with the 'gullsweep'
whose owners seem to be very satisfied with the results.
http://www.falmouthyachtbrokers.co.uk/ranges/gullsweep.htm
http://www.martleyelectronics.co.uk/birdscarers.html#mpsmarine
http://www.force4.co.uk/5055/Force-4-Humm-Line-Bird-Scarer-Tape.html
P.
If the gull sweep is that contraption that has two arms that rotate around in a circle, we've seen many of them in use, and they seem to work, except... the birds seem to excel at determining the exact sweep and have no qualms about landing just beyond.
Better yet was the one that was mounted on the fella's bow rail. A bird(we're not sure if it was always the same one) always landed between sweeps, sit on the rail, and then duck every time that one of the arms swung by. He'd sit there for a few minutes, then, waiting for that magical period between sweeps, would fly away, never getting knocked down. Rather entertaining until it became routine.
Rudy and Jill
Briney Bug, Panama City, Fl
Two questions:
Does anyone have suggestions on how to keep the birds from landing on the
bimini top itself? Do those fake owls, snakes, etc. help? What about
some kind of netting? Any ideas on how to keep them off the support
structure?
Jim Gano
Seminole 42 GB
All of you,
I have a solution that works very well and is very cheap and works with all
birds. 100% effective 100% of the time. Very easy. Tools: hammer and 6 inch
nails and monofilament line, fishing line.
What you do is tie fishing line under your structure approximately four
inches from any wood, beam, structure above or below, across fly areas for
birds. What happens when installed the birds come to land and they see the
monofilament line and it interferes with their landing. The nice thing about
this is that it is almost invisible to human eyes and works as soon as it is
installed. Start by one line and then the second until it solves the
problem. When gulls accumulate on the outside of the building, from one end
of a peak to the other, nail in a nail at both ends and leave a space of he
line 4 inches from the roof to the line. At a beach area, install a 8 foot
pole at each end of the beach and tie a line and the top, that's it and
observe the birds fly away or attempt to land, it's incredible! It works!
For those who want more info, write me an email and I will help you solve
this problem. I have helped out hotel in Mexico, Cuba, Dominican Republic
and Mc Donald's back home here in Summerstown Cornwall area and public
beaches where children play.
Go play and try it, let me know of you tried it!!
Roger Lalonde
Summerstown On Canada
snip<I have a solution that works very well and is very cheap and
works with all birds. 100% effective 100% of the time. What you do
is tie fishing line under your structure approximately four inches
from any wood, beam, structure above or below, across fly areas for
birds. What happens when installed the birds come to land and they
see the monofilament line and it interferes with their landing. The
nice thing about this is that it is almost invisible to human eyes
and works as soon as it is installed.
Go play and try it, let me know of you tried it!! >Snip
Well, here goes ....
Had the guano problem last Spring and determined that the culprits
were roosting on the TV antenna attached to the aft mast about five
feet from the top. It was one of those flat disc shaped affairs about
twelve inches in diameter. I got my ladder and fastened monofilament
to half a dozen places around the circumference and brought them all
to a point about eighteen inches higher on the mast.
Worked splendidly for three days. On the fourth day as I walked down
the dock I could see a crow darting at the antenna. By the time I got
to the boat he had cut all of the mono and was sitting on the antenna
making croaking noises at me.
The next day I got back up the ladder and removed the TV antenna.
Never used it anyway.
Terry
Tamarack