Anti Bird Strike Tab (ABS-Tab)The Ultimate protection for Fences and Birds 
Extensive deer fencing of the high tensile "Rylock" type on the estate where Jock Logie is employed was the catalyst for Jock to design a device to deter bird strikes on these fences. These fences were completed in 1990 and it soon became apparent that they had the same effect on all species of bird as a Japanese tuna net has on all species of fish and marine mammals, initially Jock started to mark these fences by the method he had used in the early sixties i.e. tying bunches of heather onto the fence, as each of the three fences were 6,000 - 7,000 metres long in length this method was going to be a long and tedious task also not that efficient tying heather against heather. Jock was determined to design a device which would
After trying many materials and colours Jock came up with the (now known as) A.B.S.Tab, a simple device made of black P.V.C. threaded with a length of 2mm plastic coated stainless steel wire, the wire must be tied by a specific method to allow the tab to rotate on the rylock, the above mentioned fences were marked by this method at the rate of tab between each post approx. 5 metres (quite a low rate), one man being easily able to attach 1,000 tabs in a working day meant that 5,000 metres could be marked in a day, these original tabs to date (Nov 2002) are still very much in place, very few having had to be replaced and this on deer fences within a forest of 800ft above sea level up to 1,500 ft above sea level, in the first years of the fences they were regularly checked for any incursions by red deer and particular attention paid to signs of bird strikes, after the A.B.S.Tabs marking sign of bird strike had fallen to almost zero. Jock registered the device with the patents office in 1996 due to the regular enquires from forestry concerns and estates for the said tabs. As Jock is fully employed and quite a busy guy, his wife Margaret took on the manufacturing of A.B.S.Tabs and has since (with practically no advertising) built up quite a successful cottage industry having now supplied some 500,000 tabs to customers over the whole of Scotland and much of the North of England where it has been used mostly on grouse moor stock fences which are equally lethal to bird life in conditions of mist or pre-dawn, post-dusk flight, the tabs can be put on at whatever density that the sensitivity of the area would demand. They are in easy dispensing packs of 20 and at a cost of £140 (+ package and postage) per 1,000.
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