1.   Cover the window with cardboard to eliminate the reflection or place a rubber snake or plastic owl on the ledge.

2.   On the advice of the bird experts, NASA technicians rigged up plastic owl decoys and played tapes of hooting sounds of great horned owls, predators of woodpeckers.

3.   Two plastic owls were being installed, near the second story window boxes to discourage pigeons, which were a problem at Hermes.

4.   Ultrason-ET, a product from Bird-X in Chicago, has been used along with plastic owls and a chemical repellent.

5.   Plastic owl decoys were set up, horns blown and tapes of owls hooting played.

6.   By the time NASA installed plastic owl decoys at the pad and began broadcasting taped screeches of predator birds, it was too late.

7.   NASA used plastic owl decoys, horns and tape-recorded hoots to scare off the pesky woodpeckers.

8.   NASA used plastic owl decoys, horns and tape-recorded hoots to scare off the pesky yellow-shafted flicker woodpeckers, who may have been trying to build nests.