Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 05:19:18 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Raymond Geddes Subject: Re: Getting Vultures off the Roof Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit A very cheap and easy way to try getting rid of woodpeckers or vultures, would be to raise mylar balloons over the area. They can say Happy Birthday, or Go-away!! They can be raised or lowered by string. ---------- >From: Les Roslund >To: MDOSPREY@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM >Subject: [MDOSPREY] Getting Vultures off the Roof >Date: Mon, Mar 18, 2002, 8:43 PM > > 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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================