Bird Scarer

billyhead

Are these any good for keeping birds away from the garden. It's to try and keep birds away so they don't poop on the house walls and garden furniture.

fiacha

What kind of area is the house (urban, rural, farm etc etc?
What kind of birds are you having issues with?
What type of bird scarer are you referring to ?

Jim_Hodge

Are you talking about a banger? If so, forget it in a garden.

Have you neighbours?

What type of birds?

Birds are a huge plus to a garden.

billyhead

Hi folks. It's a urban garden. I was thinking of one of those owl or falcon ornaments as the bird Scarer. The birds that are a hassle are magpies, pigeons and seagull's. I don't mind the small birds. I have a camelia in the back garden and the magpies think the white flowers are bread and grab the flowers and fly off which apart from the excrement is another problem.

Jim_Hodge

billyhead wrote: »

Hi folks. It's a urban garden. I was thinking of one of those owl or falcon ornaments as the bird Scarer. The birds that are a hassle are magpies, pigeons and seagull's. I don't mind the small birds. I have a camelia in the back garden and the magpies think the white flowers are bread and grab the flowers and fly off which apart from the excrement is another problem.

I never found those decoys to do any good.

It's difficult to be selective in which species you deter.

Odelay

The camelia isn’t native as it is from Asia. Get rid of that plant, then you won’t have to get a bird scarer to get rid of the magpie that it is attracting.