How can i stop the Birds Pecking my Hull ?

[Greylady2]

This blinking tapping on my fresh blacking is really getting on my nerves, i love wildlife but i worry the bluddy things are going to cause rusty pit holes in my fresh paint.

 

I do not feed any water birds but is their any way of stopping this 5 hour tapping other than me scaring them off with my gob ?

[RLWP]

Are you sure you are cut out for boating? That's one of those bizarre things that happens when you have a boat that make it fascinating

 

They won't damage your blacking. You'll do far more damage by moving the boat*

 

Richard

 

*There - a new thing to worry about

[pig]

"How can I stop birds shitting on my windscreen?"

"Don't ask them out again".

 

[nicknorman]

The birds are presumably ducks and they like to pull the nice fresh weed off your boat to eat it. I have to say that it's something we quite like to hear even if it's at 5am. Pity the poor ducks whose best slap up meal is a bit of green slimy stuff - then you won't find your own lot too hard!

[Greylady2]

Oooow Richard, i luv boating and do all the diy which is brill. :-)

 

Its much better than living in a box called a flat. :-)

[Greylady2]

"How can I stop birds shitting on my windscreen?"

"Don't ask them out again".

 

Park in a garage lol. (Unless its infested with pidgeon's) Edited September 9, 2016 by Greylady2

[Greylady2]

The birds are presumably ducks and they like to pull the nice fresh weed off your boat to eat it. I have to say that it's something we quite like to hear even if it's at 5am. Pity the poor ducks whose best slap up meal is a bit of green slimy stuff - then you won't find your own lot too hard!

Yer its the dirty dozen dozen duck/coots or the moorhen's.

 

Dont get me wrong i love it but after doing the blacking and seeing stuff you know where i am coming from.

 

:-) love living on my boat.

[Greylady2]

"How can I stop birds shitting on my windscreen?"

"Don't ask them out again".

 

You need yo change your dating agency :-/

[RLWP]

Oooow Richard, i luv boating and do all the diy which is brill. :-)

 

Its much better than living in a box called a flat. :-)

 

Then snuggle down into the duvet and remember how lucky you are

 

Richard

[Greylady2]

Then snuggle down into the duvet and remember how lucky you are

 

Richard

I like that post Richard (big smile)

 

Night all

[BilgePump]

Go out there and talk to them. Ask them what they're playing at. Offer some peas or whatever and love the alarm call of them pecking away (always seems to be daybreak with ours). Keeps sanity one yard closer.

[MtB]

Obviously your new blacking smells of bird food...

Worms, probably.

 

Hope that helps...

[patty-ann]

I used to love the tap tap of quacky ducks..gives nice cozy feeling when snuggled in duvet.

[Alan de Enfield]

Have you Peed off the neighbours ?

 

In the 'old days' of caravanning, for the neighbours who had kept you awake all night running their generator, drunken party or whatever, it was considered 'normal' to throw some bread up onto the roof of their caravan - first light - seagulls with hob-nail boots dancing on the roof.

 

Revenge is sweet !!

[BilgePump]

The sound of crows dancing on a glassfibre roof is wonderful on the water. Beats the sound of a main road I hear 24/7 at home.

[Geo]

This blinking tapping on my fresh blacking is really getting on my nerves, i love wildlife but i worry the bluddy things are going to cause rusty pit holes in my fresh paint.

 

I do not feed any water birds but is their any way of stopping this 5 hour tapping other than me scaring them off with my gob ?

 

Duck, swans, geese etc can be stopped quite easily, just sweep the top six inches (150mm) below your waterline clean every day. That is bow to stern,port and starboard.

[Alan de Enfield]

 

Duck, swans, geese etc can be stopped quite easily, just sweep the top six inches (150mm) below your waterline clean every day. That is bow to stern,port and starboard.

 

The question is "HOW TO STOP THEM PECKING MY FRESHLY BLACKED BOAT"

 

Not one that is covered in weed.

[Greylady2]

Have you Peed off the neighbours ?

 

In the 'old days' of caravanning, for the neighbours who had kept you awake all night running their generator, drunken party or whatever, it was considered 'normal' to throw some bread up onto the roof of their caravan - first light - seagulls with hob-nail boots dancing on the roof.

 

Revenge is sweet !!

No lol

 

But thanks for the tip. :-)

[Greylady2]

Have you Peed off the neighbours ?

 

In the 'old days' of caravanning, for the neighbours who had kept you awake all night running their generator, drunken party or whatever, it was considered 'normal' to throw some bread up onto the roof of their caravan - first light - seagulls with hob-nail boots dancing on the roof.

 

Revenge is sweet !!

No lol

 

But thanks for the tip. :-)

Duck, swans, geese etc can be stopped quite easily, just sweep the top six inches (150mm) below your waterline clean every day. That is bow to stern,port and starboard.

Would i get away cleaning with 125mm ?

[Geo]

 

The question is "HOW TO STOP THEM PECKING MY FRESHLY BLACKED BOAT"

 

Not one that is covered in weed.

 

My guess is that Grey Lady's paint is some month's old and has weed growth else the ducks etc would not be pecking. Unless the new paint has an additive that attracts ducks etc

[Greylady2]

Some funny replys, but it looks like i will just have to accept the tapping on the hull and remember how nice it is to live on the canal. :-)

[Ray T]

Hang this over the side of your hull

 

Recipe courtesy of Laura Calder
Show: French Food at Home Episode: Simple Classics

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Photo: Duck a l'Orange

TOTAL TIME: 45 min

Prep: 20 min

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Cook: 25 min

 

YIELD: 3 to 4 servings

LEVEL: Easy

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· 4 oranges, washed

· 2 duck breasts, about 3/4 pound/375 g each

· 1/4 cup/55 g sugar

· 3 tablespoons red wine vinegar

· 2/3 cup duck, chicken or veal stock

· 2 tablespoons butter

· Salt and freshly ground pepper

· Squirt lemon juice

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[MissMax]

Are you sure the boat was blacked and not coated in crispy bread crumbs!?

[cuthound]

You could keep a pet pike, and have it on a lead to stop it swimming away. ☺

[Greylady2]

You could keep a pet pike, and have it on a lead to stop it swimming away. ☺

Really ?

 

Hmmm i wonder if Amazon sell Pike Leads.