Modifications Keep Birds Away
I had a lot of trouble with birds pooping in my rain gauges and got tired of having to dump out the dirty water. I tried everything I could think of to solve the problem. Finally I bought a cheap electric fence charger at Tractor Supply Company. The two gauges are located about 100 ft. apart in my yard, while the charger sets on our house porch and plugs into a 110-volt outlet. A pair of wires run from the charger through a length of underground pvc tubing that leads to each gauge.
The tubing then goes up and over the rain collection tube, where the wires form a perch. The wires are only about 1/4 in. apart, with one wire hot and the other ground, and a short insulator keeps them apart. As the bird lands, its feet touch both wires at the same time to complete the circuit. It doesn’t kill the bird, but once it gets a shock it doesn’t come back. Works great.
One of the two rain gauges is an AcuRite 5-in-1 wireless weather station, which I bought on Amazon.com. It accurately measures the temperature, humidity, rainfall, wind speed, and wind direction. It comes with a self-emptying rain gauge, and it shows rainfall totals for the day, week, and year on an illuminated color display that I keep in my house. I paid about $100 for the AcuRite. It’s also sold at Bass Pro Shops. (Mack Myers, Kirbyville, Texas ph 409 988 8327; mackwmyers@gmail.com)
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Modifications Keep Birds Away BIRD CONTROL I had a lot of trouble with birds pooping in my rain gauges and got tired of having to dump out the dirty water I tried everything I could think of to solve the problem Finally I bought a cheap electric fence charger at Tractor Supply Company The two gauges are located about 100 ft apart in my yard while the charger sets on our house porch and plugs into a 110-volt outlet A pair of wires run from the charger through a length of underground pvc tubing that leads to each gauge The tubing then goes up and over the rain collection tube where the wires form a perch The wires are only about 1/4 in apart with one wire hot and the other ground and a short insulator keeps them apart As the bird lands its feet touch both wires at the same time to complete the circuit It doesn’t kill the bird but once it gets a shock it doesn’t come back Works great One of the two rain gauges is an AcuRite 5-in-1 wireless weather station which I bought on Amazon com It accurately measures the temperature humidity rainfall wind speed and wind direction It comes with a self-emptying rain gauge and it shows rainfall totals for the day week and year on an illuminated color display that I keep in my house I paid about $100 for the AcuRite It’s also sold at Bass Pro Shops Mack Myers Kirbyville Texas ph 409 988 8327; mackwmyers@gmail com
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