Saturday, January 16, 2010

An owl to scare away pigeons and gulls


On the fence surrounding the Waterfront Inn's swimming pool sits a majestic owl. It is supposed to scare away pigeons and gulls so they don't poop in the pool. Unfortunately, fake owls don't scare away pigeons and gulls. A vice principal tried this at a school where I taught. The pigeons sat on the owl's head!

10 comments:

Small City Scenes said...

Yeah, they never worked anywhere I had seen them. MB

R.Ramakrishnan said...

The owl certainly looks scary !

VP said...

What a pity, I was going to get a couple of owls for my terrace!

bfarr said...

That would scare me away...not. I don't think they work on the flying rats either.

cieldequimper said...

I guess that's what I need for my pigeons. You've given me an idea.

Cezar and Léia said...

Is it a real one?
God bless you!
Cezar

JM said...

LOL! No way you can fool pigeons!

Tricia said...

LoL! That's so funny

joo said...

They are smart, aren't they? The owl is a beauty!

Rose said...

They tried putting a blown up owl in some of the cherry trees at work to scare away the birds that ate the cherries and it didn't work there either.