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| Author: | earthbound [ Oct 2nd, '10, 14:23 ] |
| Post subject: | Wanted dead or alive |
Preferably dead... We have been really lucky here at the shop, we've had very few problems with pests, until recently that is. Over the past few weeks we have noticed that we were losing fish... The salad bar had floating foam covering the surface almost completely but when we took the foam out the other day there were no fish left. The trout have all gone from the space saver system as well.... Bit by bit slowly disappearing.... Then more recently we noticed them disappearing from the family system just outside the back door. Even with a net covering the top they were disappearing, and the fish were being killed in the water. We'd arrive in the morning to find 4-5 dead trout in the water, generally with damage on them.. This morning I carefully crept around the back with my camera.. There's the little bugger in the middle of the picture, a grey/brown colour, a night herron... He is standing in the middle of the 3000L tank on the net cover..under his weight it sags down into the water and he attacks the fish through the net.... Attachment: Copy of DSC_0627 (Medium).JPG [ 83.65 KiB | Viewed 5910 times ] He's damn hard to see though, very skittish bird and as soon as he spotted me about 30m away behind some bushes, he was off. |
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| Author: | shaker [ Oct 2nd, '10, 14:34 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Wanted dead or alive |
Wow Well i was thinking it was thieves ... bag him and release him near someone elses area... not far from you on Warton Rd. |
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| Author: | earthbound [ Oct 2nd, '10, 14:38 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Wanted dead or alive |
hahahahaha... You're evil......... |
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| Author: | stevesmartt [ Oct 2nd, '10, 15:13 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Wanted dead or alive |
I am headed north.. could take it with me if you want... |
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| Author: | mantis [ Oct 2nd, '10, 15:17 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Wanted dead or alive |
The cheeky bugger. Time for a better fish tank lid eh You are gonna have a lot of spring onion seeds soon |
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| Author: | TEA20 [ Oct 2nd, '10, 18:59 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Wanted dead or alive |
I said sling shot... not camera shaker wrote: Wow Well i was thinking it was thieves ... bag him and release him near someone elses area... not far from you on Warton Rd. Now this aint bad either |
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| Author: | gnash06 [ Oct 2nd, '10, 19:33 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Wanted dead or alive |
I still have MAGGIE in the cabinet.......will have to do it early tho cause she's a loud girl |
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| Author: | ivansng [ Oct 2nd, '10, 20:51 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Wanted dead or alive |
Hmm... I think you can get a gadget like a water cannon/jet that they use to setup to keep dogs and cats off a certain area.... I suppose it detects motion so can be used on a bird as well.. I don't think it will like be sprayed with a jet of water and would likely not come back after a few tries... Or get embi to make you one of the little girl scarecrows... (I think it was embi; sorry if I am wrong)... |
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| Author: | stevesmartt [ Oct 2nd, '10, 21:00 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Wanted dead or alive |
or an air rifle... |
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| Author: | RupertofOZ [ Oct 3rd, '10, 08:41 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Wanted dead or alive |
That's a bugger Joel.... a Night Herron will keep coming back until the fish are all gone.... damn difficult to get rid of... |
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| Author: | earthbound [ Oct 3rd, '10, 10:20 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Wanted dead or alive |
Yeah, I think he's gunna be nigh on impossible to catch, so flighty... And we have so many systems out the back it's very hard to set something up to scare it.. We will just have to get solid covers for every system, hopefully he will eventually give up if he can't catch anything. |
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| Author: | TEA20 [ Oct 3rd, '10, 11:08 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Wanted dead or alive |
EB you were saying that he sits on the net so it sags down... any way you could suspend a party popper from your shadcloth frames down to the nets covering the tanks, if hes hevy enogh he may set it off |
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| Author: | aLostHippy [ Oct 3rd, '10, 13:20 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Wanted dead or alive |
hey joel could you shape the net over a dome ..so the herron wont be able to reach the water?? |
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| Author: | embi [ Oct 3rd, '10, 14:28 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Wanted dead or alive |
ivansng wrote: Hmm... I think you can get a gadget like a water cannon/jet that they use to setup to keep dogs and cats off a certain area.... I suppose it detects motion so can be used on a bird as well.. I don't think it will like be sprayed with a jet of water and would likely not come back after a few tries... Or get embi to make you one of the little girl scarecrows... (I think it was embi; sorry if I am wrong)... Yeah it was us... Do you need me to send J.J. Scarecrow over Joel? |
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| Author: | Outbackozzie [ Oct 3rd, '10, 20:37 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Wanted dead or alive |
I like either the Magge option or the dome |
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