Yellow bird scarer watching over new brassica seedlings.
Welcome the 'Scary Eye Bird Scarer'! These metallic-tailed beach balls have a large, abstract design painted on them which is intended to mimic the fearsome and ever watchful eyes of predators in order to scare away the pesky birds.
So far so good much to our amazement and relief. It was with some scepticism that we purchased these touted pest controllers but we had heard they worked and they were the most affordable natural and non-cruel option we could find.
Black and yellow scary pair and their white buddy guarding the garlic.
For this kind of deterrent to work effectively, it has to be changed around regularly otherwise the birds get used to it and no longer wary. In this case we have 3 'Scary Eye' ball colours (yellow, black and white), which we need to swap around every so often (we've managed with good effect only moving them every couple of weeks). Also, each ball can only service a limited area and the recommended coverage is 6 balls per acre. This recommendation has been working fine for us :).
Bye, bye naughty birdy!
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