I think the designer amd marketing folks for that “owl” must get a good laugh at all the folks who buy them in hopes the scary owl will keep pesky birds (in my case - out of the ripening grapes) away. If your owl works for flickers: well done and perhaps you’re lucky!I was up on the roof of my detached garage to clean the gutters and noticed a presumed hawk kill of a varied thrush, I think.
The owl decoy is because f*cking flickers were pecking my roof. I like birds, including flickers but not pecking my structures. Flickers aren’t that smart I don’t think, maybe the decoy works on them, it definitely doesn’t work on most every other critter.
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Sorry, meant to add that, this was Nth Island, New Zealand, Coromandel Peninsula up to Bay of Islands. (No trout fishing, rivers running really high and ambitious sightseeing agenda with lots of bushwalks and beaches, that place is really spectacular)Boot - where were those picks taken?
Matt B, I saw my first hawk decoy on an oceanfront building last month, so I had to research that. I read that they are far more effective than owl decoys. The theory is that very few birds ever see owls, because most owl species are not out and about during the day, so other birds don’t see owls as threats. It’s the opposite with hawks.I was up on the roof of my detached garage to clean the gutters and noticed a presumed hawk kill of a varied thrush, I think.
The owl decoy is because f*cking flickers were pecking my roof. I like birds, including flickers but not pecking my structures. Flickers aren’t that smart I don’t think, maybe the decoy works on them, it definitely doesn’t work on most every other critter.
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That goose is cooked...
That is one beautiful bird! Is it a red tail? Hawks can have so many colour variations, it's confusing to me. There's great picture galleries on Cornell University's bird site that help me, but I'm stumped on this one.