Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 21:12:02 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Jerry and Laura Tarbell Subject: Re: Getting Vultures off the Roof MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Perhaps some Frederick Co. members can help with this one. The community of Lake Linganore was built right in the midst of a sizeable vulture roost. As soon as people moved in, they found themselves in an uncomfortable relationship with the 'natural inhabitants'. I never heard if there was ever any resolution of the problem. Last I heard, the residents still saw the vultures as pests and were looking for a way to legally exterminate them. Good luck with this one. (as everyone knows raptors, including vultures, are protected) Jerry Tarbell ----- Original Message ----- From: Les Roslund To: Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 8:43 PM Subject: [MDOSPREY] Getting Vultures off the Roof > Several of my neighbors are having a problem with Turkey Vultures > perching on their houses. The birds will spend quite a bit of time on their > chosen spots, and they seem to claw or gnaw on most everything around. The > result is some fairly substantial damage to roofing. (One lady said it cost > her $500 last year to get their damage repaired - and this year they are > back again.) > Has anyone ever heard of any effective methods for getting them to > choose to roost elsewhere? They mainly seem to come in fairly late in the > evening, and spend the night on the same roof. At the moment, it is a group > of six on one of the houses. The number varies from time to time. > > Les Roslund > Lroslund@bluecrab.org > Talbot County > Easton, MD > > ======================================================================= > To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com > with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey > ======================================================================= > ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================