Any ideas for saving fruit from the birds please!I've done plastic bags (the noise upset a neighbour) have two scraggy scarecrows, hung DVD's in the trees, but would like a new option.Any ideas!Yes I have 2 cats!I don't mind sharing with the birds but they taste each piece of fruit rather than eating one!
steptoesnr,
Nov 14, 8:32pm
Bird netting.
neldav,
Nov 14, 8:54pm
put bird netting up , but ended up finding dead birds hanged in it.Have heard that a red laser pointer flashed into their eyescreeps them out.am trying it this summer.
neldav,
Nov 14, 8:56pm
Just read do NOTflash into their eyes but on their bodies.
.jillybeen.,
Nov 15, 2:18am
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Why bother just plant more fruit trees and share.
lythande1,
Nov 15, 2:23am
[quote=kendall40Yes I have 2 cats! [/quote] Stop feeding them.
thistle4,
Nov 15, 2:41am
The Kereru have eaten almost every leaf off my plum trees. They never touch the apple trees.
2young1,
Nov 15, 10:09am
my first crop from my louisa plum tree last year. birds were having a good go. made me so mad. I cut into the side of clear plastic drinking cups and hanged around the fruit. managed to save about 10 plums.
carter19,
Nov 15, 9:44pm
A boating shop should have some humming tape. It makes a racketand scares the birds off. Boaties use it to stop the birds crapping on their boats while moored.
kendall40,
Nov 15, 11:45pm
Thank you for all the ideas.I will try the humming tape.I asked the price of the owls that boaties use, and they are $45.I wondered about painting polystryrene balls to look like eyes and hang them in the trees.Do you think that would work!I have quite a lot of fruit trees so netting will not work for me.I value my skin so will continue to feed my lazy cats!
thistle4,
Nov 16, 12:53am
Stop feeding them.[/quote]
I have 11 cats and all the birds in the neighbourhood just thumb their beaks at my lot.lol.
studentkyle,
Nov 16, 4:11am
im bumping this for other ideas.
poolgirl6,
Nov 17, 7:15am
The birds are after the moisture in the fruit, as they dont seem to eat a great quantity.If you put out bowls of water, they will leave the fruit alone. This will work.
thistle4,
Nov 17, 7:57pm
I have a stream in the garden, bowls of water for the cats and chooks and birdbaths and the birds still go for my fruit. I have netting cages for the soft fruit now.
yort53,
Nov 17, 8:02pm
Depending on where you are there are companys who make a 9 mm garden gun which makes very little noise and is quite effective in an orchard. This is a rimfire cartridge slightly bigger than a .22
studentkyle,
Nov 17, 10:57pm
Got a pic of the netting cage! we are looking to build/buy one for our raspberries.
Need to find a way to protect our apples too.
oh_hunnihunni,
Nov 7, 3:04am
.toy snakes.
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