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...despite reports that the fake owl has been fired, Con Edison technicians are giving him another chance, turning to something else known to deter parakeets: the color orange.
“We put an orange cape on Hootie, and now he’s Super Hootie,” said Sam Maratto, a Con Ed technician who is leading his troops in the ongoing battle against the wild parakeets that are colonizing overhead electrical equipment and causing damages and power outages in Whitestone.
3 comments:
They need to go to a taxidermy supply and get good glass "follow" eyeballs.
Thats one of the cheaper Owls with the plastic eye's, just the head rotates.
I dont know how it works but the smarter birds especially in the Parret family seem to know a fake Owl or Hawk by the eyeballs.
-Joe
Lets order some plastic statues of Toby and Evan Stavisky. That'll scare of the birds, and pretty much anything else.
-Joe. You always have a keen eye on the problem. Thank you.
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