keeping bird doo-dahs of the pontoons
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Topic: keeping bird doo-dahs of the pontoons
Posted By: laser4000
Subject: keeping bird doo-dahs of the pontoons
Date Posted: 26 Nov 09 at 10:27pm
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One of the jobs of the Race Team at our club is to scrub the pontoons every racing day to get the bird droppings off. Not the most pleasant of jobs, but it stops people from slipping on the pontoon when launching/recovery. No idea what type of brids it is that are shatting as I'm not a birdman (well feathered variety) but I assume it's some type of geese. Any good ideas for a way of keeping them off - must take less time to remove than it takes to scrub the pontoons - i.e. netting whilst good isn't very practical. |
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Posted By: radixon
Date Posted: 27 Nov 09 at 8:40am
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CD's on string tied to posts about a metre high of the pontoons. Not sure where you are but we suffer with geese and cormants. The issue of scrubbing the pontoons especially now is the wet wood is slippier than the dry pontoon so its a toss up what you do. ------------- |
Posted By: JohnW
Date Posted: 27 Nov 09 at 10:12am
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We have a rope rail around the pontoons about 6 inches above the deck and tensioned with bungy. The corner posts are in sockets so are easily removed before sailing and replaced after so it is not a trip hazard. This provides just enough of an obsticle to prevent the geese hopping out of the water onto the pontoons, it is too low for them to go under. It works a treat. Thank goodness geese are stupid.
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Posted By: zailor
Date Posted: 27 Nov 09 at 6:57pm
give you a clue, its starts with 12 and ends with bore   ------------- |
Posted By: Villan
Date Posted: 27 Nov 09 at 7:18pm
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We, and groups at our club, tried lots of methods .. from yellow warning/hazard tape suspended from poles along the pontoons, to rope, to all manner of other things.
Very soon people realised why there was still bird mess on the pontoons .. They were just flying in, and landing on the grass BEHIND the yellow tape! The clever ones realised they could go around the tap by going round to the forn tof the club, jumping onto the shore there, and walking round. Other than some automated sentry turrets (You could hook them up to webcams, and let people control them over the internet, fun for all the family!), or a pack of trained wolves, I don't think there are many ways of keeping the birds away, that doesnt involve lots of assembling / disasembling every time you come down to the club. ------------- Vareo - 149 "Secrets" http://www.TandyUKServers.co.uk" rel="nofollow - TandyUK Servers |
Posted By: radixon
Date Posted: 27 Nov 09 at 7:41pm
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Villian - dont do anything otherwise they come our way!
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Posted By: zailor
Date Posted: 27 Nov 09 at 8:10pm
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lay old club boats upside down on the pontoon, sorted ------------- |
Posted By: A Seabadger
Date Posted: 28 Nov 09 at 5:09am
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Our problem got better for a short while when 2 swans nested next to the pontoon and scared the geese away. However 2 vicious protective swans nesting on the edge of the slipway has it's own set of problems! ------------- I don't suffer from insanity...I enjoy every moment of it. |
Posted By: Jack Sparrow
Date Posted: 28 Nov 09 at 1:00pm
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Posted By: Rockhopper
Date Posted: 28 Nov 09 at 3:07pm
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I have seen plastic owls on boats in the harbour it seems to keep them off.When i am working at night when they the birds are sleeping flash them with the search light it scares them silly and they fly off and sit in the water instead of the pontoons ------------- Retired now after 35 seasons in a row and time for a rest. 2004 national champ Laser5000 2007,2010,National Champ Rs Vareo |
Posted By: zailor
Date Posted: 29 Nov 09 at 10:53am
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problem with plastic owls sometimes corvids (crow's rooks magpies etc.) will mob the owl during their nesting season, so good news is no more bird do das, bad news now you got a mob of angry crows swooping in on the pontoon leaving angry doo daasss ------------- |