The alligator has not arrived as of yet... I expect it today or tomorrow.
Kenny did find, at Home Depot, an owl wind windsock that is pretty lame... I wouldnt believe it was real if I was a duck.. but as of this morning all of the song birds no longer live in the tree next to the pool. They ran (flew) for the hills, so obviously they believe it is ominous. We have seen the ducks once in the past few days. They did not stay for more than a few moments, they landed, went for a quick swim, and looked around and flew away. So maybe it is working. We moved it on Sunday just to keep them guessing.
I cant explain but I have this picture in my head of them sitting on the fence laughing at us.
But I think once we put the alligator in the water floating around that will also help...