Actually, I bought this 'big plastic owl with rotating head' for Will for Christmas. This is because, last June, he kept asking me to "find a big plastic owl to put out in the corn". Well, not only did I know that the town of Zachary had no big plastic owls, but i wasn't willing to drive all over Baton Rouge in search of a big plastic owl. And then, while online shopping, looking for a couple of (hopefully artistic and not too expensive) metal cranes to put out by the pond...there he was, lo and behold...the afore-mentioned 'big plastic owl'.
There is a reason he is keeping watch on the dock. There are some very ugly and quite annoying muskovy ducks that like to come over from the pond next door and hang around. That's not so bad, really...but they like the dock and they roost on the dock and anybody that has seen what they leave behind when roosting on a dock can understand why it's icky. And messy. And hard to clean up. And Will was dutifully out there shooting them with the bottle-rocket-gun-contraption-thing he has...previously used to scare off herons and egrets and the like. But these ducks just didn't care. It didn't scare them in the least. He even hit one with a bottle rocket (I think that was an accident but I'm not sure). and it didn't even make him jump (hardly). and it certainly didn't make him fly away. But they hate the owl. So they just roost on the fountain instead. Which means you have to turn on the fountain periodically to chase them off. I'm sure this will be an on-going saga. But, for now, the owl is at least keeping them off the dock. I wish they'd just go home!
UPDATE: Well, it's dark now, New Year's Night, freezing cold, and Will has been stalking the ducks...he spent probably most of an hour shooting them directly with bottle rockets...there's still one who won't go home. So he is off to East Feliciana Parish to score some larger ammo before all of the fireworks stands close up for the season!
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