A Homebase owl
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A Homebase owl
Image: © Walter Baxter Taken: 17 Jul 2010
This dummy owl is positioned at a corner of the roof of the Homebase store at Hawick. The idea is to frighten off birds such as seagulls and prevent them from nesting on the roof. I saw an amusing picture in a newspaper today, where a dummy owl had been placed on a building to deter seagulls, but it wasn't working, as a gull was standing on the owl's head.
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Image Location
Latitude
55.44144
Longitude
-2.776225