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
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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