As a long-time parrot owner, I can attest to the intelligence of birds and also their ability to sense what you don't want them to do-- and then do exactly that. Reverse psychology works, but in your case that will be expensive. You need to build a second, nicer observatory. While they poop all over that one, you can sneak into the old one and get some work done ;-) On May 11, 2005, at 9:34 AM, Dale Hooper wrote:
Relating this all back to amateur astronomy <g>...and speaking of birds... I am having a difficult time with starlings and my observatory. They keep p**ping all over everything and no matter what I do they can't seem to get it into their skulls that this is a bad place for a nest. I can't shoot them - I'm in city limits (although admittedly at this point - I would like to). Any ideas of how to keep them away? I've already tried a fake owl - which worked for a couple days. I've screened off a lot of things - which has helped. But, they keep trying to make nests along the rail - which I destroy on a daily basis - but they just keep coming back. HELP!!
Clear skies, Dale.