Flashing Light to Keep away Owls ???

MikeSmithWV · Post by **MikeSmithWV** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 9:30 am

I once seen an advertisement in one of the magazines of a flashing light that supposedly keeps away Owls and other Predators. Has anyone tried one ? How expensive are they ?? I do know that rabbits love to sit under street lights at night. I have a rabbit at my house that has sit under my street light for a couple yrs now, almost nightly..

Lynn Perkins · Post by **Lynn Perkins** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 9:46 am

Mike you should try what i use to scare stuff away,about the most horriable picture to look at

.Only bad thing about it ,it would probably scare off your rabbit,for i have seen it scare about everything that has looked on it.I say if Maduesa herself was to look at this picture,her snakes would pass out

You ready for this,real simple Just ask DRAMEY for a picture of himself.Works the best i've seen so far

I thankful he's still alive,that way i'll never be the ugliest man in pike county

DRamey · Post by **DRamey** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 10:34 am

Lynn, I'm only slightly purtier than Malachi! Maybe a picture of him would work. No self-respecting owl would come around something that ugly, but there's a problem. A picture of Mal would ugly the rabbits to death, defeating the purpose. Seriously, Mike, i would think that a flashing light would temporarily blind an owl, kind of like a flash picture on a human. Since they have tremendous night vision, it seems that a light like this would become so uncomfortable that they would go elsewhere for a meal. Worth a try, I'd say.

DRamey · Post by **DRamey** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 10:37 am

By the way, if anyone would like to breed a good female to the ugliest 6-year old beagle on earth (all Northway, 2 crosses of Samson) for a pup, let me know. All I can guarantee is that their Paw will be ugly and that they will be physically tough. By the way, he does run rabbits.

MikeSmithWV · Post by **MikeSmithWV** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 11:35 am

Hey Lynn, I always wondered how Pike Co. always had such fine looking corn patches. Ramey's pic should be available in Lawn and Garden at WalMart.. WOW, things you can learn on a message board...

bunnie harvester · Post by **bunnie harvester** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 12:07 pm

Back in the early 80`s Salem County BC, put up construction type flashing lites, we were told it interfered with the owls vision, sound good to us, so on every feed plot we put one unit, it did stop the owls they left, but it sure made night vision for other predetors, dogs ,cats , so on,myself I thought it marked a landing zone......

DRamey · Post by **DRamey** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 12:30 pm

Mike, a friend I know down on Joe's Creek on John's Creek has a full-body cardboard cutout of me in his mater patch. Grows maters big as watermelons but they taste rotten when they just begin to ripen. He finally figured out that it was all the local dogs hikin' their legs on the picture!

MikeSmithWV · Post by **MikeSmithWV** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 12:36 pm

LOL....... You are a regular ol' Rodney Dangerfield

Cannon Hollow Hounds · Wed Oct 13, 2004 5:34 pm

I too remember seeing an ad somewhere for what you are talking about.As I remember it was a power pack with a small red light that flashed every couple seconds or so.Not big enough to actually cast light on the ground but it's purpose was to divert the owls attention from its quarry over and over till the owl just more or less gives up trying to zero in and goes to a different hunting ground.I don't recall what the cost was.If I can come up with where I saw it I'll let you know. CHH

bullboy · Post by **bullboy** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 7:10 pm

we use them in our clubs running grounds we've had them for 4 yrs now this sring we were finding bones and parts and a couple of our lites were broke we put up 8 new ones and haven't seen any more parts we out them on pvc in the more open parts of the grounds

first timer · Post by **first timer** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 7:15 pm

A man told me they didn't work. I know a old man put old crome hub caps on top of fence posts so sunlight might hit a hawk in flight to run him off in the daytime.

Chuck Terry · Post by **Chuck Terry** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 8:07 pm

The Nitegard lights seem to help protect your rabbits from night feeding owls. It does not help about hawks nor owls that feed at dawn and dusk. I have been pleased with the one I bought for $20 three and a half years ago - it still flashes at night!

MikeSmithWV · Post by **MikeSmithWV** » Thu Oct 14, 2004 6:09 am

I recieved my American Beagler yesterday and there it was, the nightguard light ad. The cost was 24.99, and it covered approximately an acre.