Tweets,
Got this off the Carolina Birders List Serv.
Anyone out here tried this with our Urbanized
Canada/Cacking geese in the parks?
Seems a little too simple.
Guy

--- Larry Barden <Larry at LBarden.com> wrote:
> From: "Larry Barden" <Larry at LBarden.com>
> To: <carolinabirds at duke.edu>
> Subject: RE: Ending the goose problem with a simple
> piece of string????????????
> Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 05:48:50 -0400
>
>
> No, not what you think. A virtual friend of mine
> (ie chatroom acquaintance)
> and I just had this interchange of bird-related
> information. Can anyone
> vouch for the efficacy of the method?
>
> "Re the geese, our course had a number of ponds that
> the geese
> loved as "stop-overs". Everybody enjoyed these
> beautiful birds and
> their young'ns...except for the mess. On the basis
> of some sage
> advice, a taught string was put around all the ponds
> at about 12"
> above the ground. The geese would fly into the ponds
> as usual, but
> they simply would not duck under or fly over the
> string in order to
> leave the ponds to nibble the grass and leave
> duffer-tees. After
> several years, they stopped coming. Many mixed
> emotions!"
>
> "ARE YOU SERIOUS????????? A piece of
> string???????????
>
> I know some local park staff who would pay big bucks
> if someone had
> a patent on that idea.
>
> Anxiously awaiting your reply,
> Cheers,
> Larry"
>
> "Frank Sez: Yep, Larry, I'm dead serious. 18"
> surveyor stakes were placed as
> close to the water as possible and about 15' apart.
> Heavy twine was strung
> 10-12" off the ground around each of three ponds.
> Neither geese nor ducks
> would cross it to get to the fairways. As for
> patents, I have no idea, but I
> did pass it along to a community in New Jersey with
> a similar problem. They
> had a contract with a "dog man"; whether they ever
> implemented the string, I
> don't know."
>
> Larry Barden
> Charlotte, NC
>
>
>

Guy McWethy
Renton, WA
mailto: lguy_mcw at yahoo.com



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