Thread: Any alternatives for dish pooping piggeons

Originally Posted by Anole

While I have no problem with anything you want to do to get rid of the air-rats, I don't see posting pictures of 'em to be appropriate for the forum.



And as a practical matter, accidentally shooting an LNB, denting a dish, or launching a stray shot into the neighbor's yard are undesirable consequences.

I'm with you Anole, not appropriate for the forum. Try using axle grease where the birds land maybe messy but better than looking at blood running down your dish, unless your into that.

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Well that's a first here. I wouldn't dare shoot anything toward my dishes as I'm certain I would hit one right in the lnb! Seems like an answer to a non-issue, into each dish a little crap must fall. Birds mess up my car worse than dishes but I don't shoot at my car either.

On our 3m aluminum Prime focus dish in Cyprus we got this little juvenile basking in the sun but no pigeons. I leave it be unless it curls around the LNB during Football, then it is an armslength catch and release because they eat other vermin. It's called a blunt nose viper and is venomous even as a youngster.

Originally Posted by pedrogarcia

On our 3m aluminum Prime focus dish in Cyprus we got this little juvenile basking in the sun but no pigeons. I leave it be unless it curls around the LNB during Football, then it is an armslength catch and release because they eat other vermin. It's called a blunt nose viper and is venomous even as a youngster.

Pedro,

That's a cute little fella, even if he is venomous. I like snakes and other reptiles.

Thank you for for the pix!

As a kid, I guess I was an amatuere herpetologist. I liked snakes and turtles and lizards. I guess I still do, but don't have the time to play with them or to go and research them, that's what young kids do when they still have a mind and the time for it, sure wish I did now.

I flipped a coin to decide whether to go into electronics or some field of botany/biology. Electronics won the coin toss, but I think my heart is with nature moreso, even now.

Yeah, that is where my heart is. I should have gone that direction.

At least I still have the fun of both worlds.

RADAR

Originally Posted by AcWxRadar

I flipped a coin to decide whether to go into electronics or some field of botany/biology. Electronics won the coin toss, but I think my heart is with nature moreso, even now. RADAR

You know I think we went the right way to earn our living but now I am retired I like to enjoy the snakes and reptiles I played with as a kid.

We have the Agame Lizards which grow to about 30" head to tail. They can cling to the house rendering but the dishes just provide them with a play slide and do they make a noise at it. When they run they just get up on their hind legs and runlike something prehistoric. They give my dog some exercise but are far too fast for him.

I've seen these Lizards in Mexico too, they're plentiful around historical sites like Maya Ruins which are the only remote sites outside of ocean spots tourists usually manage to see. They run fast, and at the beginning one never knows, if they're your friends or predator enemies from another age. For sure, some grease on the LNBs and top dish edge will do the trick with pigeons, though it will eventually dry one time.