Charleston lawyer and friend Create a device designed to repel pests
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If you're a bird, please stop reading now.
OK. Assuming that all birds have turned the page, you can say: The Whirlybird is a peregrine falcon.
But the birds do not know better it seems, a wobbly tower Whirlybird error, which reflects patterns of light and sound patterns oscillating alignment falcon predator, according to the co-inventor of the device, Charleston attorney Rob Turkewitz.
Turkewitz, 50, of James Island and his friend Bud Doty of Edisto Island, created his first "very simple and effective repellents birds harmful "Two years ago cut plastic bottles of juice. We have experienced a series of prototypes mounted on poles, have been established and patented design. Turkewitz bought his partner and has sold 2,000 Whirlybird locally and worldwide.
Now manufactured Mount Pleasant, especially clear plastic UV rays as having multiple images in the eyes of a hawk, the Whirlybird sells for about $ 50. Turkewitz said his wife, Deborah has a small bag of candy deliveries Whirlybird "because the customer service is very important."
Whirlybird appear throughout the Lowcountry, "Costa Guard private docks and piers, and in vineyards and other areas. The device requires only the wind and sun persuade the birds to make their droppings and their appetites elsewhere, Turkewitz said.
"It's very simple. The slightest breeze starts do it, "he said.
That test the durability of the device in his car with a 75 mph Whirlybird held by the window.
Turkewitz Doty said Whirlybird came out of it and efforts to repel unwanted birds from their docks. fake owls and scarecrows and devices that emit sounds the end all will not work because "the birds get used to them," said.
The Whirlybird wobbles a bit as it rotates, downloading the changing patterns of sound and reflected light. "It's almost like a kaleidoscope," he said.
Some 50-60 whirlybird are used to protect the 11 acres of grapes grown in vineyards Irvin-House Bears Bluff Road Wadmalaw Island, as the vineyard manager Jay MacMurphy.
Whirlybird said, keep crows and raccoons away from other birds and even feeding on the grape harvest. "We put them every 40 meters in a grid, said the MacMurphy whirlybird.
He said Whirlybird are mostly kept out of the vine until mid-August when the grapes begin to mature, because the benefits of vines in spring and summer, most of the tiles. The company offers tiled houses, they eat a lot of insects that can damage crops, "he said.
Whirlybird MacMurphy called "ingenious," especially since "began to bottle of Gatorade. "
"They are very effective, or no time to put in place if it is," he said.
MacMurphy said whirlybird used at home, where it pools, and devices "to keep herons from eating fish."
Arthur Jenkins, pastor of St. James Church Bishops on Camp Road on James Island, said a Whirlybird was the answer to prayer from the center of the ecclesiastical ministry. For nearly five years, said, crows and other birds have been regularly flying in a large glass panel in the top center.
"It was very annoying, especially during prayer or chant" Jenkins said.
On Whirlybird has recently been installed outside of the glass, some birds find their way, "he said.
And the birds are not the only creatures that should be worried.
"I have something in the hopper for squirrels and deer, Turkewitz said.
For more information, Whirly birdrepeller.com visit or call 762-3154.
Reach Edward C. Fennell in efennell@postandcourier.com or 937-5560.
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