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Hi team,
Heading to the West Coast shortly. Just wondering if anyone has any recommendation for keeping pesky kea off of tents, mainly at night. I have heard that apparently they don't like bird netting when it is staked out over a tent fly.
Any recommendations, and don't say .410 please. Heard that one enough already.
We used an extra fly but I think bird netting would be better they still landed on our fly and wrecked them.
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Bird netting sounds like the best bet, i'd be gutted if a kea wrecked my gear!
Wonder what they taste like?
Something that evil surely cannot taste that good.
I do love them though seriously, cheeky wee devils, but man they wreck expensive kit fast
They sure do we had 3 tents and 2 flys buggeredQuote:
Originally Posted by Sika 8
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Had one turned up at mine very recently. Must of been lost ;)
After 3 days of him/her chewing off the insulation on the solar hot water system, I had to resort to a shot across the bows with the 22.
Has not been back since.
heard of people using electric fence hot tape
Mainly worried about at night as I will pack my tent up in the morning and relocate. Had a look at bird netting just now in bunnings, but would be quite a bulky carry for a weeks walking.
like a $100,000 wildlife act violationQuote:
Originally Posted by Fee Knicks
be the most expensive fried chicken you've ever had
they are poisonous and will give you the trots for weeks unless you curry them but its a $10,000 dollar curry chew slowly no good laugh though - seriously most birds are sacred of tapes over things --don't like wing damage- try thatQuote:
Originally Posted by Fee Knicks
I got mine from the $2 type shop...$15 for 15 metres and very light and small to carry..Quote:
Originally Posted by Floundering Around
You used to get $75 for the beak as a bounty a few years ago....
The 410 used to be the deterrent of choice.
Probably not appropriate any more.
It's hard not to like the wee buggers though
Hard case buggers alright. We were up Top Waitaha a few years back and came across a stash of all sorts of trinkets on a rock ledge that had us stumped to begin with untill we realized it was a Keas trophy collection, there was bits of string off tents, all sorts of various bits of material, a live 308 round, and a fired 222 case, a spoon etc etc. Took the live round as the new owner had made a good go at plucking the projectile out of it and thought lead probably can't be good for them.
Be a bit careful with bird netting, a kea tangled up by it's feet in netting could be a bit more than a handful trying to get them untangled, I suspect they wouldn't be happy and you might loose a finger or two. I think you would be better off using tape as a deterrent.
You mean like tape their mouth up. That would work, no need for a four one zero.
Alright this one's a bit outside the box. A mate of mine is a chef, the restaurant he was working at had a bird problem (seagulls and pigeons). After trying all the conventional tactics someone put them onto toy rubber snakes. Haven't had a bird problem since. The theory is that it's ingrained in them to fear snakes, even if there aren't naturally snakes in the country.
So who's going to be the first to fly in a couple of rubber snakes to whack on the tent fly? Haha
