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cardboard raptor shapes, small owls from a $ shop and
a couple of plastic snakes are gimmicks and don't ever (or very rarely)
work or at least not beyond a few minutes. If they do anything (and that is a
big if), it is to excite the birds into mobbing behaviour, which potentially
attracts more of them or keeps them interested (like my observation of years ago
that I wrote of in CBN of birds reacting to a baseball glove). Even live owls,
snakes or whatever won't stop the birds from visiting.
What
they are doing is seeing their own reflection in the windows and thus attacking
the neighbouring flock. Put a cover over the parts of the window that are
reflecting their images to them and it will reduce.
Philip
Hi
My daughter has a flock of
White-winged Choughs around her house and in her street in Torrens. They are
lovely but they are attacking her windows constantly. She has put several
cardboard raptor shapes on windows. She has now got a couple of small owls from
a $ shop and a couple of plastic snakes all to no avail.
Can anyone make any suggestion
to stop them attacking the windows which is noisy and
constant?
Cheers
Judy
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