Homemade bird spikes for the weather station

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Homemade bird spikes for the weather station

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Using duct tape and chicken wire. Some bird has taken to crapping in the rain cone every couple of days and blocking it up. I know I can get the new "aerocone" for $70 but for the time being here's my free (albeit ugly) solution :lol:
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Just get a nylex raingauge but mind you, you have do the manually reading from it like what I do.
By the way, are they hails stones, the white spots on your lawn?
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NZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote: Sat 09/11/2019 19:52 By the way, are they hails stones, the white spots on your lawn?
Nah just daisies. My phone camera puts a blur effect on the background by default.
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