jimi
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what do you do with them?
Birds that crap on your decks..
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DJE
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You should have paid more attention to their toilet training when they were younger.
Evadne
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Personally would I never go out with a crew who hadn't been potty trained at the very least. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
cliff
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Give them a bucket and have them clean it up then show them where the "heads" are and how to use the pumpy thing. oooh /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif
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Lakesailor
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Video them. There must be a market for it. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif
Sans Bateau
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Don't ask them out again.
Talbot
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Having discovered that I now have a purple boat (thank god for todays rain) I know exactly what I would do with them but daren't write it down here in case the RSPCA sees it!
BlueSkyNick
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A couple of weeks ago, there was a guy with a Harris Hawk flying around the marina, supposedly to chase the purple poopers away. Trouble is, it took one look at Nicho and flew off, never to be seen again. That was after it rested on the spreaders on the boat next to ours, with a starling at the top of the mast looking down on it!
tome posted on here that it had been at Northney - I mentioned that to the guy who said he gave up down there, because there are too many blackberries. If they clear away the bushes, the birds will stay away, apparently.
So all in all, the bird of prey didn't do much good, just had a bit of fun for a couple of days. You will just have to go buy yourself a brush and scrub the decks for once.
tome posted on here that it had been at Northney - I mentioned that to the guy who said he gave up down there, because there are too many blackberries. If they clear away the bushes, the birds will stay away, apparently.
So all in all, the bird of prey didn't do much good, just had a bit of fun for a couple of days. You will just have to go buy yourself a brush and scrub the decks for once.
moodycruiser
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..think he was at Hythe marina on saturday, wearing a big hat.
No wonder the hawk didn't do any good, it had a bloomin' hood over its head, couldn't see a thing ......
No wonder the hawk didn't do any good, it had a bloomin' hood over its head, couldn't see a thing ......
BlueSkyNick
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Yep, I was referring to Hythe, too. Same bloke.
Just realised from your profile that I know your boat. Close enough to the pub for you??
Just realised from your profile that I know your boat. Close enough to the pub for you??
nicho
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Thing is, Nick's so tall he had a job stopping Harris the hawk from squatting on his head - thought he was a mast!! It was actually very funny watching the one, brave (or stupid) starling, sat on the top of a mast staring out the hawk that was perched a few feet below on the upper spreaders. You could almost hear it saying "come on then, if you think you're hard enough!" Result? Starlings one, hawk, nil!!
Sans Bateau
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Oh! Those sort of birds.
The problem with the Harris Hawk, gun noises or bangs is that the starlings sitting on the rigging, just having a rest are frightened by the intrusion and in taking off at high speed, well to lighten the load, its obvious, bombs away!
Once a starling got into my kitchen from the loft. Luckily that day I had shut the door into the rest of the house. There was (note was) a bowl of fruit in the kitchen (how healthy of me). The starling had finished the fruit off and then decided it was time to leave. with no easy exit it had got rather excited, you know where this is going dont you!
When I got home the kitchen was plastered. Now let me just make one point here, I like our lttle feathered friends, we feed them we watch them in the garden. However, that particular evening I became hunter, the starling playing hunted.
I still sometimes feel bad about killing it, but if you could have seen the mess it had left, anyone would have done the same.
The problem with the Harris Hawk, gun noises or bangs is that the starlings sitting on the rigging, just having a rest are frightened by the intrusion and in taking off at high speed, well to lighten the load, its obvious, bombs away!
Once a starling got into my kitchen from the loft. Luckily that day I had shut the door into the rest of the house. There was (note was) a bowl of fruit in the kitchen (how healthy of me). The starling had finished the fruit off and then decided it was time to leave. with no easy exit it had got rather excited, you know where this is going dont you!
When I got home the kitchen was plastered. Now let me just make one point here, I like our lttle feathered friends, we feed them we watch them in the garden. However, that particular evening I became hunter, the starling playing hunted.
I still sometimes feel bad about killing it, but if you could have seen the mess it had left, anyone would have done the same.
Major Catastrophe
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I had a bird crap in my boat last weekend. Luckily she used the head, even though she was p*ss*d as a fart.
She made a splendid full English in the morning.
I like a bird who can swill them down like a oil rig worker and still handle the frying pan the next morning.
She made a splendid full English in the morning.
I like a bird who can swill them down like a oil rig worker and still handle the frying pan the next morning.
moodycruiser
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It would have been 16 months ago, but we moved from that berth when we bought her - went up river. Go to Hythe to walk the dog for a change of scenery 
BlueSkyNick
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In that case, I am thinking of a different boat !! There is 41 very close to the pub, and has been for some time.
I will solve the riddle tomorrow.
Just ignore me - its been a long day/week/year !!
I will solve the riddle tomorrow.
Just ignore me - its been a long day/week/year !!
Lakesailor
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I like a bird who can swill them down like a oil rig worker and still handle the frying pan the next morning.
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I like a bird who can swill them down like a oil rig worker and still handle the frying pan the next morning.
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Major Catastrophe
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That's her, yer b*st*rd!
Give her back, the boat needs cleaning.
Give her back, the boat needs cleaning.
Lakesailor
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Perhaps she'd been frightened by a bad experience. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif
BlueSkyNick
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"....Police say he could face more charges."
But no more discharges ! /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
But no more discharges ! /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
vision
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Shame, that was a good question in the first place and I would have liked to have heard some serious answers as I get the same problem on my swing mooring.
