bird abatement [RE-wrenches]

[Peter Duchon]

Now if your host customer is also a big Pink Floyd fan and the neighbors
don't mind the entertainment, you might be able to keep pigeons from
roosting anywhere near a rooftop area with a custom laser light show...
Might be annoyingly creepy in the fog.

http://www.bird-x.com/BXBirdBlazerVideo.html 

For an audible deterrent, seems like most offered are for indoors, which I
guess would be a problem...
# Drives pigeons away by giving them a "migraine headache"... ..
# Helps prevent disease from pigeon droppings. (Remember that episode of
"House"?)

http://www.birdcontrolsupplies.com/ultrason-x.htm

But here's an outdoor ultrasonic deterrent from same marketing company as
above, a Nuisance Wildlife Consultant's.

http://www.birdcontrolsupplies.com/CropGard.htm

Weitech appears to have a lock on the bats/brown recluse spiders ultrasonic
deterrent market...nighttime creatures.

But birds, especially SF bay/city pigeons/gulls I would think, flock around
during the day where they sleep at night.  So make sure they're not nesting
now on the project building or even neighboring rooftops, billboard
structures, etc..  The mounting structure, whether ballasted, flat, tilted,
or whatever, should not create a place for the pigeons to seek shelter or
coziness.

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Loesch [mailto:solar1online at charter.net] 
Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2008 4:14 AM
To: RE-wrenches at topica.com
Subject: Re: bird abatement [RE-wrenches]



Regarding the audible deterrents more than one company makes such (AC
powered) devices.
One of those companies is/was(?)
Weitech in Sisters, OR
1 800 343 2659


----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Duchon" <info at asappower.com>
To: <RE-wrenches at topica.com>
Sent: Friday, July 11, 2008 3:44 PM
Subject: RE: bird abatement [RE-wrenches]


>
> While installing solar streetlighting units this issue has come up often
> along the coast.   We have seagulls and crows.
>
> Here's a good product that you can adhere to the top edge of a tilted
> module's frame (or row) with a good tube glue/adhesive caulk. Run a bead
in
> the glue trough on the back of the product and schwack on carefully, may
> require clamping.   You can also affix with screws.
>
> http://www.birdbgone.com/birdspike2000.htm
>
> I believe the taller edge is more attractive for sitting, wherever modules
> are tilted, so don't know about effectiveness of product for flat or min.
> tilt flat-roof applications.
>
> Can't do much about the fly-over bombing runs, however, there may be an
> audible deterrent solutions that will steer birds from flying through the
> system owner's airspace?
>
> Here are some visual deterrents.   I like the umbrellas but wonder if
these
> dangly deterrents and the small shadow they would create would be just as
> bad, but I think less than fried-on bird droppings
> .
> http://www.flybye.com/catalog/index.php?cPath=8
>
> Peter Duchon
> ASAP POWER!
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jerry Caldwell [mailto:solarcowboy at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Friday, July 11, 2008 12:11 PM
> To: RE-wrenches at topica.com
> Subject: bird abatement [RE-wrenches]
>
>
> Wrenches,
>
> We're planning a project which will be on the waterfront here in San
> Francisco.  The building on which the array is to be installed is covered
> with a large amount of bird droppings - and this project is to be a PPA,
so
> system performance is crucial.  Does anyone have experience installing
> pigeon spikes or employing any other methods to keep birds from mucking up
> arrays?
>
> Cheers,
> Jerry Caldwell
> Recurrent Energy
>
>


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