Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/05/27

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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Scarecrow CDs
From: henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)
Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 12:32:03 -0700
References: <CA+yJO1CJAtAg0EuA9jfVNKA2SSoWNSqGPf8U7KoQHXJm+bbkMw@mail.gmail.com> <CC164E72-00B8-4792-A09C-2877FE6206D6@frozenlight.eu> <CA+yJO1Ag-zDxp+UGhs=F_ro3z4HSTqp2ZtnW-_YKHOw1rWOxsQ@mail.gmail.com>

It's used around here as well, but unfortunately crows are particularly 
smart and adaptable, so in short order the CD's are best seen as decoration.

Henning


On 2013-05-27, at 12:05 PM, Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> wrote:

> I hope the pigeons in Poland are smarter than the crows in South Carolina!
> 
> Tina
> 
> 
> On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 2:28 PM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at 
> frozenlight.eu>wrote:
> 
>> It is so funny to see the same technique used in South Carolina as in
>> Wroclaw, Poland. My sister lives on the 11th floor of an apartment
>> building, and she and her neighbors are always looking for ways to scare
>> off the pigeons from their balconies so that they are not covered in 
>> guano.
>> They use this very technique, although it seems that the pigeons realized
>> rather quickly that the CDs are harmless.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Nathan
>> 
>> Nathan Wajsman
>> Alicante, Spain
>> http://www.frozenlight.eu
>> http://www.greatpix.eu
>> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws
>> Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/
>> 
>> YNWA
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On May 27, 2013, at 5:31 PM, Tina Manley wrote:
>> 
>>> PESO:
>>> 
>>> A use for old CDs that I don't need anymore!
>>> 
>>> http://www.pbase.com/image/150436163
>>> 
>>> The crows ate most of our first planting of corn, pulling up the tiny
>>> plants to eat the corn kernel at the bottom.  I strung up CDs above the
>> new
>>> rows of corn and they spin and flash all day.  So far, they are working
>>> great!!
>>> 
>>> Tina
>>> 
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>>> 
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> 
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Henning Wulff
henningw at archiphoto.com






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