jimi
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I need to buy an owl to scare seagulls off my boat, do you know who stocks them?
Wantom owl shipper
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Kilter
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best get a real owl then as the plastic uns don't work!
If you fit a plastic all you'll hear is 'owls of derision! /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
If you fit a plastic all you'll hear is 'owls of derision! /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
sailbadthesinner
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hoots mon
be serious
be serious
FullCircle
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My mate Skippy bought one in desperation.
Desperation turned to Exasperation when studying the performance statistics.
It appeared on ebay and returned only 15% of the original outlay.
Desperation turned to Exasperation when studying the performance statistics.
It appeared on ebay and returned only 15% of the original outlay.
jhr
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You're quite near the Hawk Conservancy, aren't you? I'd just sneak in one day, when they're not looking, and borrow one of their Eagle Owls.
Alternatively, I understand that seagulls aren't very keen on dead sheep. Do you have a piece of headgear that could masquerade as such? You could suspend it from your crosstrees.
Hope this helps.
Alternatively, I understand that seagulls aren't very keen on dead sheep. Do you have a piece of headgear that could masquerade as such? You could suspend it from your crosstrees.
Hope this helps.
sarabande
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Is the purpose to woo seagulls away from your fair craft ?
sailbadthesinner
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explores
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Boat next to mine has one ---seagulls sit on it
sarabande
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I used to use one of these commercial savonius rotor devices when the mast was up. Very effective,when it was sent up on the burgee halyard at the end of a trip.
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At about £9 from your local farm supplier, it's good value
http://www.brinsea.co.uk/detail.aspx?ID=283
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At about £9 from your local farm supplier, it's good value
http://www.brinsea.co.uk/detail.aspx?ID=283
jimi
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only stupid seagulls ... twit t'woo
Danny Jo
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Re: Wailing gull scarer
Berthon at Lymington have a PA system which blasts out the sound of a gull in distress at regular intervals. It sounds awful, but it seemed very effective.
Hearing it conjured up a mental picture of a gull being tortured with fiendish instruments by a wild-eyed, mad mobo owner with a tape recorder.
Berthon at Lymington have a PA system which blasts out the sound of a gull in distress at regular intervals. It sounds awful, but it seemed very effective.
Hearing it conjured up a mental picture of a gull being tortured with fiendish instruments by a wild-eyed, mad mobo owner with a tape recorder.
jamesjermain
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Re: Wailing gull scarer
Torquay Marina had the same thing. Last time I was there a seagull was sitting on one of the speakers.
Torquay Marina had the same thing. Last time I was there a seagull was sitting on one of the speakers.
Major Catastrophe
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LakeSailor will be along shortly with his stock image of owl Vs Seagull.
dk
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Re: Wailing gull scarer
They gave up with the one in Campers - the starlings used it as a call to prayer! It also p'd off every boat owner for miles around.
D
They gave up with the one in Campers - the starlings used it as a call to prayer! It also p'd off every boat owner for miles around.
D
Danny Jo
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The authors of Leviticus and Deuteronomy seem not to like them.
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These, moreover, you shall detest among the birds; they are abhorrent, not to be eaten: the eagle and the vulture and the buzzard, and the kite and the falcon in its kind, (Leviticus 11:13-14)
every raven in its kind, (Leviticus 11:15)
and the ostrich and the owl and the sea gull and the hawk in its kind, (Leviticus 11:16)
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These, moreover, you shall detest among the birds; they are abhorrent, not to be eaten: the eagle and the vulture and the buzzard, and the kite and the falcon in its kind, (Leviticus 11:13-14)
every raven in its kind, (Leviticus 11:15)
and the ostrich and the owl and the sea gull and the hawk in its kind, (Leviticus 11:16)
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pelicanpete
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A big rubber snake left on the fore deck might give you a result. I'm told they work very effectively...
jimi
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A big rubber snake left on the fore deck might give you a result. I'm told they work very effectively...
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hmmm ... might just work, I've certainly never have had a seagull perched on my beergut
A big rubber snake left on the fore deck might give you a result. I'm told they work very effectively...
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hmmm ... might just work, I've certainly never have had a seagull perched on my beergut
pelicanpete
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I was just trawling through e-bay, India - like you do - and found this for sale. It might scare the birds away better than either the owl or the snake!
http://cgi.ebay.in/S-EXY-ELEPHANT-G-STRI...1QQcmdZViewItem
http://cgi.ebay.in/S-EXY-ELEPHANT-G-STRI...1QQcmdZViewItem
Stingo
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Am open to correction, but I think it was Colin of Englander fame that hung a dead seagull on his boat and that was the end of his problem with seagulls, but the beginning of his problems with seagull-huggers.