Bird Crap

[sarabande]

little laser pointers (about £10) are very effective, I am told. Only 5mW, so no damage to their eyes.

 

[davedpc]

Mate used to throw balls of bread like this off the back of the ship to be caght by the shitehawks while airbourne at sea. The only difference they used to wrap the bread around carbide, thje birds used to blow up and explode! Not a thing i would be guilty of myself i might add.

 

[DoubleVision]

Jays fluid sprinkled liberally over the finger pontoon once a year does the trick.

 

[michael_w]

For non-fatal results try the following:

Throw lots of bread in the air to encougage the feeding frenzy. Then lob one liberally buttered with English mustard. The bait is swallowed whole and the bird falls out of the sky like a dive bomber. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[whisper]

Yes, I've done that as well, when the boat is on the pontoon nearby. Strangely enough it deters gulls but ducks don't seem to be put off by it so much.

 

[ccscott49]

No same as me, ducks used to come and be fed by my girlfriend on the pontoon, until she forgot one morning, then they are on deck, pecking at the windows, waitin' for their brekkie, pooping all over the deck!! Little devils! A few shouts of "orange sauce" moved em' on!

 

[whisper]

How very lucky they understood English with you being in the Med an' all. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[ccscott49]

Nah! This was when I wuz in Dartmoof!

 

[Major Catastrophe]

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I shot two, hung their carcasses from my boom, bit smelly for a while, no gulls came near the boat, even when the carcaases were thrown over the side, they still never came back.

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Works with burglars as well.

Plods don't like it, though.