[C320-list] Bird Problem

[Dick Walker]

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Dick Walker
740 Olive Ave.
Coronado ,CA 92118
619.435.8986



> On Jan 1, 2015, at 12:27, Timothy Osburn <tosburn1958 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I have a major bird problem on my boat.  The last two weekends, I had to
> haul buckets of water on deck ( because the marina water is turned off for
> the winter ) and scrub the decks to get the bird guano off. We're not
> talking about one or two unsightly little messes here.  We're talking about
> my boat looking like the Galapagos Islands.  Apparently, every migratory
> bird in North America on their way to their Florida condo's has stopped in
> and left the calling card on my decks.
> 
> Last weekend, I bought one of those stupid plastic owls and strung it up
> with the main halyard and tied it off so it was in the middle of the
> mainsail triangle area.  It made no difference and in fact, the boat looked
> worse this weekend then last weekend.
> 
> Short of opening up a guano factory and selling the stuff on eBay, does
> anyone have any ideas getting rid of these damn things?  Thanks.
> 
> BTW - the boat is on Kent Island in the the Chesapeake.