At the risk of sounding a pedant... the electric mat won't work. In the
same way that birds can sit on electric wires there's no potential
difference between parts of the bird, and therefore no current. I like
the plastic bag idea...a short story.
BMCC, (Blue Mountains City Council) decided to throw some cash at
Blaxland to hot it up a bit. To do so they purchased some massive ugly
palms which were trucked in at massive expense and installed a greater
expense. This makes sense in a World Heritage NP full of eucalypts I
must say, The best part of the plan is that the local mynahs absolutely
love them, and all the trees are full of roosting birds every night,
making a terrible racket. I reckon there are upwards of 150 in any
given palm. I propose getting one of those "elvis" fire fighting
helicopters to dump a couple of hundred litres of metho on the palm of
an afternoon... or maybe the plastic bag. Must be hard to get the bag
on before the birds fly away though...
On 3/3/06, Clarke Andrew <> wrote:
I retract my suggestion - It sounds like you don't
need Mr. Schwarzenegger after all, especially when you have your own home
grown "Terminator"!
Feral Canada and Greylag Geese are considered a problem
in some places in southern Norway, but I hope news of Ricki's "shocking"
electric mat does not reach Scandinavia - It could be
misused for the eradication of all (park) wildfowl "suspected" of
carrying H5N1.
Andy
Andrew W. Clarke
Horten
Norway
From:
[ On Behalf Of Ricki
Coughlan
Sent: 3. mars 2006 02:17
To: Keith Brandwood;
birdingaus
Subject: Re: [BIRDING-AUS] common mynas/vanishing
sparrows
100 Common Mynahs on your property! Sounds like a
job for my secret weapon: the "Frikasee 'em Fast Super Electric Mat".
This is a high voltage netting style mat
that you throw on the ground and sprinkle liberally with the sort of
garbage items that the Common Mynahs can't resist. As soon as the target bird
lands on it, you throw the switch and there's nothing left but little
smouldering charcoal Mynah bird shapes. They wont even know what hit 'em.
Importantly, you don't even have to clean
anything up as the next puff of wind just blows the ash away, all ready for the
next "smart ones".
Ricki
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