Only recently the bloody things are hanging around my patio and making a mess. Anyone know a good method of keeping them away? Do those fake owls from Bunnings work?

Cheers

Im thinking Jack would not be scared by a fake owl, maybe his parrot might try to mate with it.

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CD discs suspended on string or whatever have worked well for Pigeons. The essential Simon and Garfunkel I
worked particularly well , I might add .

It may depend upon the positioning but I've seen the owls being a total fail for sparrows.

snail bait who said that?

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Tonz said..
snail bait who said that?

Sling shot who said that ?
Those owls dont work . I tried this . I knew this when two miners were fighting over sitting on it .
The plastic sheet eagles in a thin stick work.

I googled 'sparrow trap' and made one, it works a treat. It's up to you what you do with them when you catch them.

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shi thouse said..
Only recently the bloody things are hanging around my patio and making a mess. Anyone know a good method of keeping them away? Do those fake owls from Bunnings work?

Cheers

Well if you are still in WA give Department of Agriculture a call and they will take care of your sparrow problem...

Call me old school, though I think a cat may do the the job.

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Pitbull said..
Call me old school, though I think a cat may do the the job.

Most urban cats these days are too fat, lazy and slow to catch anything. Most of the birds around my house dive bomb my cat. Best he can do is run for cover.


i've heard laser pointers work well on crows. Point it at them a few times and they never come back. I wonder if it works on sparrows?

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Subsonic said..

Pitbull said..
Call me old school, though I think a cat may do the the job.

Most urban cats these days are too fat, lazy and slow to catch anything. Most of the birds around my house dive bomb my cat. Best he can do is run for cover.


i've heard laser pointers work well on crows. Point it at them a few times and they never come back. I wonder if it works on sparrows?

I wonder if it works on cats.

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Rupert said..
I googled 'sparrow trap' and made one, it works a treat. It's up to you what you do with them when you catch them.

My Nan used to make a good Sparrow Pie, during the war.
Kitchen colander, a stick, bit of string and a few bread crumbs were the tools.

Another vote for sling shot, balls of plastasine work a treat.

Don't always fly straight which makes things a bit random for aim wise.

They also lose energy quite quickly so tend to scare rather than hurt or damage anything expensive with a missfire.

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shi thouse said.. the bloody things are hanging around my patio and making a mess.

Are you sure they are sparrows??

Sparrows are declared vermin in W.A. - the Ag. Department hate these things with a vengeance!!

They are shot on sight - Ag. Dept. shooters are the only legal users of suppressors within W.A. - this is how serious these pests are taken.

Ag. Department have even been known to track sparrows back to their roosting tree, and watch until they know all the flock are there [which can take days - to weeks], then claymore the tree!

Oh man, not too sure. They are small and sparrow like....maybe even a swallow???

I went to Bunnings and got a fake plastic bird of prey and a few sparkly cut outs of owls and stuck them up. Must be working as they have not returned since putting them up and no bird sh!t everywhere.

You might need to work out what they are?

www.agric.wa.gov.au/amphibians-and-reptiles/declared-animal-pests

swallow you say?
African or European?

I once used mouse traps to solve a bird problem. Put a heap of armed traps where they landed, only needed to catch a few before they decided to move on.

I would probably just get a gel blaster... you could be entertained for hours..

Rubber snakes work better than plastic owls

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shi thouse said..
Only recently the bloody things are hanging around my patio and making a mess. Anyone know a good method of keeping them away? Do those fake owls from Bunnings work?

Cheers

A bit of sparrow **** on your patio - ????? - sure sounds like a first world problem to me ......

...yeah true that it is a first world problem, but aren't most issues in our lives. This is just the lawn mower cover after one day.



I won't bother sending pics of the boat cover and pavement around that area as you probably get the idea. This was also occurring around the bbq area and bar.

Plus, I've got better things to do with my time than clean sh!t up every day.

That's what the cover is for surely