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I am flying the Seattle area and have noticed a lot of these thing? Any recommendations?
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I've heard painting it to look like a hot dog scares them away.Throw food in the opposite direction.....
I've heard alka seltzer works on them.I can't count how many times I have seen some three year old squawling to his/her Moma because some feathered rat (seagull) swooped down and took the food right out of his/her hand and scared the bejesus out of the kid in doing it. They won't even let us shoot them here in Flor-I-Duh. So if your Phantom wins a round, let us know.
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Hey Bus Driver, that is pretty interesting. I have tried mucking around with some crows before. Crows are fairly large birds as common small birds go, maybe around the general size of a gull. They travel in flocks of HUNDREDS around here so one day I flew under a big thick cloud of crows and tried to rise straight up in among them. Outnumbered as I was the crows wanted nothing to do with the little drone, and crows are fairly aggressive birds. That black cloud parted like the Red Sea and gave little drone lots of room. 40 years, heh? Congratulations.40 years in the sky flying airliners here. As a general rule birds will dive (literately fold their wings and drop) when confronted. As a drone is much smaller than a plane it might differ, especially if a drone gets into the territory of a bird of prey like a hawk, kestrel or eagle, but sea gulls and pigeons are not prey birds so my bet is they will fold & dive to get away from you. Let us know what behavior you see from them.
I fly in Seattle too, near Elliott Bay Marina, and there are always Seagulls around. I've never had an issue with them. They usually stay away, however, they do seem to like making an appearance in my video's.I am flying the Seattle area and have noticed a lot of these thing? Any recommendations?
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