(Matt Koch) wrote:

Thank you everyone for your comments and suggestions. I will
definitely try a few over the next few days.

The other thought I had was to use one of those motion ativated
sprinklers they sell for keeping the dogs/cats from using your
backyard as a toilet. Problem is that I think our dock neighbour
would not be too pleased if I did not get the sensitivity setting
right GRIN


The guy two slips over in Marathon had those little shore birds on his
deck, and he tried an owl, but it didn't work.

I suggested a grid of string or wire or tape across the deck - or on
the lifelines- but a few inches up so that they couldn't get to the
deck. Bob said it would be too much trouble to put up or remove. But
I think you could do it with masking tape or duct tape pretty easily.

I also thought about putting fly paper or a cayenne pepper paste on
the deck where they sit. Or maybe just cover the deck where they like
to sit with butcher paper, and then throw it out when you come aboard
and replace it when you leave.

I know when we were anchored in the Dry Tortugas, the pelicans didn't
land on our boat because there was no place for them to sit. They
preferred the boat behind us with the hard bimini.

And when a sparrow hawk tried to sit on our boat offshore to rest, he
had a heck of a time. Of course we were in a seaway - he couldn't sit
on top of the mast because it was making big arcs back and forth, the
life lines didn't give him any purchase, the jib sheets were slanted,
the deck was slippery, and there was no place to hold onto on the
solar panel. (He tried all of them)

"Tom Hunter" wrote in message news:yknGc.30320$IQ4.2773@attbi_s02...
Birds tend to dislike movement. Strands of loose rope hanging from the boom,
a pickup bouy suspended from a halyard, anything else that is over the spot
they like to sit and moves will help drive them away.

Of course if your boat is in a very quiet spot with no wave action or breeze
to cause motion your out of luck but it works for me on my mooring and for
friends as well.


"Matt Koch" wrote in message
...
The ducks at our club have taken to roosting on our boat, making a
really nice mess of the boat. I have tried a plastic owl but have had
no luck in dissuading the ducks. Funnily enough, these are ducks ith
a sense of politics as this only started happening after my darling
wife became commodore.

Any advice for getting rid of the ducks would be greatly appreciated.
If all else fails, please send recipes (just kidding).

Thanks in advance

Matt

grandma Rosalie

You mean you didn't invite him aboard for a bit? One of the most amazing
experiences during our shakedown cruise was the visitation of the adolescent
barn swallow (click my URL below and then click the Swallow pic) way
offshore in the Gulf of Mexico.

However, I agree I'd just as soon keep my avian encounters to that type :{))

L8R

Skip and Lydia, entranced with small living creatures of all sorts (go up
the tree in the gallery to the guestki folder and see the kits she's
rescued...)

--
Morgan 461 #2
SV Flying Pig
http://tinyurl.com/384p2

"And then again, when you sit at the helm of your little ship on a
clear night, and gaze at the countless stars overhead, and realize
that you are quite alone on a great, wide sea, it is apt to occur to
you that in the general scheme of things you are merely an
insignificant speck on the surface of the ocean; and are not nearly
so important or as self-sufficient as you thought you were. Which is
an exceedingly wholesome thought, and one that may effect a
permanent change in your deportment that will be greatly appreciated
by your friends." - James S. Pitkin

"Rosalie B." wrote in message
...
(Matt Koch) wrote:

Thank you everyone for your comments and suggestions. I will
definitely try a few over the next few days.

The other thought I had was to use one of those motion ativated
sprinklers they sell for keeping the dogs/cats from using your
backyard as a toilet. Problem is that I think our dock neighbour
would not be too pleased if I did not get the sensitivity setting
right GRIN


The guy two slips over in Marathon had those little shore birds on his
deck, and he tried an owl, but it didn't work.

I suggested a grid of string or wire or tape across the deck - or on
the lifelines- but a few inches up so that they couldn't get to the
deck. Bob said it would be too much trouble to put up or remove. But
I think you could do it with masking tape or duct tape pretty easily.

I also thought about putting fly paper or a cayenne pepper paste on
the deck where they sit. Or maybe just cover the deck where they like
to sit with butcher paper, and then throw it out when you come aboard
and replace it when you leave.

I know when we were anchored in the Dry Tortugas, the pelicans didn't
land on our boat because there was no place for them to sit. They
preferred the boat behind us with the hard bimini.

And when a sparrow hawk tried to sit on our boat offshore to rest, he
had a heck of a time. Of course we were in a seaway - he couldn't sit
on top of the mast because it was making big arcs back and forth, the
life lines didn't give him any purchase, the jib sheets were slanted,
the deck was slippery, and there was no place to hold onto on the
solar panel. (He tried all of them)

"Tom Hunter" wrote in message
news:yknGc.30320$IQ4.2773@attbi_s02...
Birds tend to dislike movement. Strands of loose rope hanging from the
boom,
a pickup bouy suspended from a halyard, anything else that is over the
spot
they like to sit and moves will help drive them away.

Of course if your boat is in a very quiet spot with no wave action or
breeze
to cause motion your out of luck but it works for me on my mooring and
for
friends as well.


"Matt Koch" wrote in message
...
The ducks at our club have taken to roosting on our boat, making a
really nice mess of the boat. I have tried a plastic owl but have
had
no luck in dissuading the ducks. Funnily enough, these are ducks ith
a sense of politics as this only started happening after my darling
wife became commodore.

Any advice for getting rid of the ducks would be greatly appreciated.
If all else fails, please send recipes (just kidding).

Thanks in advance

Matt

grandma Rosalie

"Skip Gundlach"
wrote:

You mean you didn't invite him aboard for a bit? One of the most amazing
experiences during our shakedown cruise was the visitation of the adolescent
barn swallow (click my URL below and then click the Swallow pic) way
offshore in the Gulf of Mexico.

However, I agree I'd just as soon keep my avian encounters to that type :{))

L8R

Skip and Lydia, entranced with small living creatures of all sorts (go up
the tree in the gallery to the guestki folder and see the kits she's
rescued...)

Well I would have liked to - but he (the sparrow hawk) was a bit
spooky. Even when he was sitting back on the solar panel, he when Bob
went out on deck to put out the dock lines, he wouldn't stay put. He
did ride with us from somewhere off SC up to Charleston (we were
offshore about 15 miles).

grandma Rosalie

On Wed, 07 Jul 2004 02:34:16 GMT, Rosalie B.
wrote:

"Skip Gundlach"
wrote:

You mean you didn't invite him aboard for a bit? One of the most amazing
experiences during our shakedown cruise was the visitation of the adolescent
barn swallow (click my URL below and then click the Swallow pic) way
offshore in the Gulf of Mexico.

However, I agree I'd just as soon keep my avian encounters to that type :{))

L8R

Skip and Lydia, entranced with small living creatures of all sorts (go up
the tree in the gallery to the guestki folder and see the kits she's
rescued...)

Well I would have liked to - but he (the sparrow hawk) was a bit
spooky. Even when he was sitting back on the solar panel, he when Bob
went out on deck to put out the dock lines, he wouldn't stay put. He
did ride with us from somewhere off SC up to Charleston (we were
offshore about 15 miles).

grandma Rosalie

The only things that have ever flown on board Hinewai are fish - and
squid. The latter are wonderful to tread on in bare feet at the start
of a 3am watch.

Peter

www.oceanodyssey.net

Peter & Jean looking for sponsors for the Melbourne-Osaka in 2007, and
promising we will get round to updating our website this year.

"Do not measure your life by the number of breaths you take,
Rather by the number of times life just takes your breath away"

Rosalie B. wrote:
I also thought about putting fly paper or a cayenne pepper paste on the
deck where they sit.

I don't think birds taste "pepper" like people do. The loops of wire
are what I saw used on buildings in Europe, along with short wires
sticking up at about a 45 to 90 degree angle vertically, they seemed to
work OK (they seemed to not catch your hand when running it along the
surface, not that any of this will help.) Dunno about fly paper.

Cardinal Bill wrote:

Rosalie B. wrote:
I also thought about putting fly paper or a cayenne pepper paste on the
deck where they sit.

I don't think birds taste "pepper" like people do. The loops of wire

I was thinking that it would irritate their feet when they stood on
it. Although maybe that was what you meant by 'taste'.

Anyway most of the time people don't stay very long where it is
uncomfortable so I was thinking about trying to figure out what made a
duck uncomfortable.

I've always wondered, and never found an answer to why birds sit in
some places and not in others. I used to commute to Baltimore City
and at the access ramp from the beltway (I-695) to the BW Parkway,
there were always birds sitting on the inner loop to northbound wire
over the access ramp and not on the other wires that crossed the
beltway or on the other access ramps. Why?

It isn't the tallest mast. We were in a marina for a year and we had
the biggest sailboat there, and the birds usually sat on someone
else's mast.

If it is the place the boat is parked - what makes the difference.
Why do they congregate on one boat rather than another..

are what I saw used on buildings in Europe, along with short wires
sticking up at about a 45 to 90 degree angle vertically, they seemed to
work OK (they seemed to not catch your hand when running it along the
surface, not that any of this will help.) Dunno about fly paper.

grandma Rosalie

Be kind to your fine feathered friends, For that duck may be somebody's
mother.



"Rosalie B." wrote in message
...
Cardinal Bill wrote:

Rosalie B. wrote:
I also thought about putting fly paper or a cayenne pepper paste on the
deck where they sit.

I don't think birds taste "pepper" like people do. The loops of wire

I was thinking that it would irritate their feet when they stood on
it. Although maybe that was what you meant by 'taste'.

Anyway most of the time people don't stay very long where it is
uncomfortable so I was thinking about trying to figure out what made a
duck uncomfortable.

I've always wondered, and never found an answer to why birds sit in
some places and not in others. I used to commute to Baltimore City
and at the access ramp from the beltway (I-695) to the BW Parkway,
there were always birds sitting on the inner loop to northbound wire
over the access ramp and not on the other wires that crossed the
beltway or on the other access ramps. Why?

It isn't the tallest mast. We were in a marina for a year and we had
the biggest sailboat there, and the birds usually sat on someone
else's mast.

If it is the place the boat is parked - what makes the difference.
Why do they congregate on one boat rather than another..

are what I saw used on buildings in Europe, along with short wires
sticking up at about a 45 to 90 degree angle vertically, they seemed to
work OK (they seemed to not catch your hand when running it along the
surface, not that any of this will help.) Dunno about fly paper.

grandma Rosalie