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We have recently purchased a boat and currently have it in a berth at the Te Anau marina. Bloody ducks drive me up the wall everytime go down there spend the first half hour cleaning all the shit off the swim platform. Any bright ideas to dissuade them? I was thinking of just leaving loaves of bread on all the neighbouring boats
You wont like my method :sarge: :yaeh am not durnk:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst
Seriously though what about some removeable spike strips like the sort they use to stop seagulls and pidgeons roosting and shitting in public places buildings and some street lights
Lots and lots of bits of string going all over the show to tangle them up? Seems to work to keep gulls off boats over here
Use piano wire on little 4-6" stands to keep pigeons off wall etc.
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Effigy of a hawk on the cabin roof
There were yachts moored at Taupo (eastern side on edge of town) that used to be piled high in poo from ducks, shags, geese etc. I see they now sport little spinners like tiny radar units (think a metre dia). About 3-4 per boat. Wind powered. Clean looking boats now.
Others use comercial bird netting from orchards. But would be a bugger deploying and retracting. Depends how often the boat gets used?
Run a couple of lines around the boat Ryan about a foot to a foot and a half off the deck. Then attach some small coloured streamers to this.
Like the ones you get in party poppers.
Works on seagulls so should work with ducks.
have you tried a simple hawk decoy?
one that flailed in the wind might help
mite be too late if they are already too comfortable
I use a magpie decoy on a piece of string and it has almost completely kept the sparrows out of my shed
the string just gives it a bit of movement
In adddition to a hawk effigy or large painting of one on the roof, string up a few shiny cd disks that can move in the breeze. Birds a scared by these and I see them in vinyards and orchards about the place.
Elec fence unit and run a few 'pairs' of fuse wire where they roost.
So long as it is insulated from the boat it shouldnt do the old electrolosis thing to your boat.
An old Island trick. Hang a wing on a piece of string in the area of where they sit. So it blows around etc. Works with sea gulls.
Cracks me up, you call it a swim platform but the common name is the duck board :D
If the swimming platform is something that they frequently land on, maybe a layer of dishwashing liquid would mean that they couldn't stand on it properly?Quote:
Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst
Dunno, they seem happy enough to stand around on ice down here in the winter.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ryan
tie a couple of drums on the duck board so nowhere for them to sit....
Could a engineer make it fold up? Might be a cheap enough very simple solution.
Used CDs in my 4 bay shed. Never worked. Or might have worked a bit initially. Shed is home to swallows and f....n starlings. (Filthy bastards.)Quote:
Originally Posted by Woody
Likewise the hawk effigy I bought off the local pest controller to scare the starlings. He guaranteed me it would work. Strung up using fishing nylon and it moved about nicely in the wind. Starlings sussed it out in no time.
Have to check tractor engine for nests every time I use it. Most common cause of tractor fires. Also have to cover my tractor, trailer, mower when not in use. The bastards even roost on the safety frame and crap away.
Feel for Ryan. Had a fleet of Muscovy ducks several years ago. Started with a pair and soon had a tribe. Nowhere to be seen during the day. Get up in the morning and they'd all be sitting on the back porch, amongst all their new shit. They all went to a "good" home ah mmmm, duck heaven.
I've a bunch of them, they are quite social and tend to hang about. But yes, their insistence on food is indeed as you described. My kids enjoy making the big drakes take off down to the ponds, as their flapping makes a big "wup wup wup" noise and kick up dust and leaves in a somewhat impressive manner.Quote:
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I have seen road killed harrier hung in shed...no bird shit anywhere near it....
What about a mat for the deck area. Leave on duck board, made to be folded in middle, so makes a A frame/tent shape, then ducks can't get on. The when you use the boat just drop into back, and let go flat.Quote:
Originally Posted by veitnamcam
It's got a 200 Merc hanging off it haha but I get what you mean could make either side of the motor fold upQuote:
Originally Posted by veitnamcam
I had to kill the sparrows that had nests in my shed to keep them out the hawk alone wasnt effective enoughQuote:
Originally Posted by zimmer
once the nest is there they will do almost anything to get in
new ones will just find somewhere else
A few years ago a boss purchased one of those multi frequency bird and mice repellers for installation in the big workshop/storeage shed at the dairy farm I worked on. The unit made a terrible high frequency racket that kept the milking staff awake at night in their house 200m from the shed, you couldn't work on any gear in the workshop as the noise got to you, and the mice continued to eat the grain, and the birds continued to nest in there. A total waste of money. It was removed a week later.
wires and strings work on most stuff to stop birds. I have wire hoops stapled on top of some strainers to stop parries landing on them and shitting down onto the gate hook, so I am thinking that two or three rubber bungies across the 'Duck Board' would work like a cattle stop if they were up 100mm above the board. Then just unhook them when you get to the boat. Ten dollar fix
Get some hot foot paste from wrightsons works on most bird pesties that park up where not wanted
Would that affect people or dogs ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Huk
soak some bread in wasabi and leave it out for them , I'm not sure if it will keep them away but if you could set up and trail cam and post the footage it should be good for a few laughs.
@dannyb most likely as is a caustic base i thinkQuote:
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