Swallows in the Workshop
Submitted: Thursday, Feb 07, 2013 at 20:20
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Member - Nick T2

Weather Balloon reflector
Have had a problem with Swallows in my shed ever since I built it. The little mongrels nest and infest it and of course everything gets covered in bird Poop Have counted up to 20 of them in there at one time Have tried shooting them with rat shot and they shoot through for a while but soon come back. Tried one of those plastic owls that
BCF sell, they say the owls work
well for keeping seagulls off boats. Obviously owls don't eat swallows 'cause the swallows didn't give a flying Proverbial about the plastic owl.
Then last week I found the remains of a weather balloon in my paddock. I thought I may as
well try the reflector from that and lo and behold it worked a treat . I strung it up from the same line I had the Owl on at about 7.00pm and the swallows came in to roost just after it went up. Every one I saw come in perched for a couple of seconds, took a look at the reflector swinging in the
Albany Doctor and shot through flat out. Here is a photo, it is about 600 mm across at the base made of that foil plastic cardboard stuff
Reply By: Rockape - Sunday, Feb 10, 2013 at 18:16
Sunday, Feb 10, 2013 at 18:16
Nick,
on the funny side, you could always do what an old boss of
mine did.
Now he was a tad short tempered and the Galah's were driving us mad while working on a dozer. They would come down looking for seed wheat and make a hell of a racket.
Ole mate had had enough, so out comes the gelly gun used to remove the master pin out of dozer tracks. He loads it with rocks and puts half a stick in. Points it at the tree and ignites the fuse.
Trust me, no more Galah problem. Only thing is your shed may leak a little.
RA.
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