Hello Wayne.
21 Feb 97 19:29, Wayne Sarosi wrote to Roy Witt:
 RW>> My owl lost it's eyes within the first year I had it.  Mocking
 RW>> Birds are not afraid of owls.  I've seen them sit next to and
 RW>> talk to the owl for hours.
 WS>
 WS> Mocking bird to Owl: "Hey, how's the kids doing? Kill anything
 WS> last night?"
Owl answers Mocking bird: "If I told you that, you'd blab it all over the 
neighborhood."
 WS> I was thinking of putting one up though, maybe on something
 WS> rotates. It would be neat to put one up with a swivel head
 WS> that would turn the head only when the antenna moves. Or maybe
 WS> one that has a control circuit with a timer that turns the head
 WS> randomly at different times.
One that hooted at the same time it's head swiveled.
 WS> I saw in QST a while back that the Japanese were using a big pair
 WS> of yellow eyes about the size of party ballons. They claim it scares
 WS> the birds off any tower. I wonder how Mocking birds will handle those?
It would probably work until curiosity got the better of the Mocking bird.
Even though the MB would be telling the world all about it from on high.
Anything that's strange or unfamiliar in the bird world will do the job for a 
while.
... Vegetarians eat vegetables-Beware of humanitarians
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