Plastic decoys ?

[Guest cosmic dave]

I have been looking around on YouTube to get some pigeon keeping ideas and I notice a few lofts seem to have plastic decoy birds of prey near their lofts. Is this to keep real ones away ?  :-/

 

David

[pjc]

it can distract them but you need to keep moveing the decoys or they just get used to them!

[PIGEON_MAN]

Yes your right Dave but as with a lot of these things the BOP seem to get used to them after a while,the usual plastic ones your talking about are models of the Eagle owl,have known people put them up and have no problems with the BOP for a while and then the next thing is they are perching on top of the model.

[cowman]

ive got an eagle owl and move it every couple of days to 3 differant posts i had trouble with sparrow hawk last year but since i got the eagle owl ive never had another visit .

[Alen Gibb]

My mate has plastic decoys and moves them around. He also has a rotating amber light - hasn't made the slightest difference - still plagued by sparrow-hawks. One SH unfortunately killed herself on a window whilst attacking his birds but was replaced by another within 24 hours.

[DOVEScot]

From first hand experience they work well when you first put them up but the hawks get used to them, I get good success when I play the eagle owl CD