ADSB antenna + cockatoos

[Nigel C]

If you just throw snakes up there and leave them, they'll very quickly get used to them and probably start chewing on the snakes too. My years of doing bird management has taught me that you can't rely on any one method...there is no silver bullet to keeping birds/bats away from an area.

Try putting some aluminium foil strips on the gutter, get an owl decoy, tie lots of cable-ties around the antenna and cables but don't snip the excess bits to neaten it up.....if there's spikes sticking out in all directions it makes it harder for them to find an unobstructed part to perch on. Try tying some plastic shopping bags up there for noise value and a visual deterent. Tie some fishing line from your mast to all different directions and hang foil or plastic warning tape (like the stuff cops use at crime scenes....you can get rolls of it in red/white at Bunnings for not a lot).

Variety is the key. Change it up. Make it uncomfortable for them.