Keeping Birds from Eating Strawberries

How can I keep the birds from eating my strawberries?

By LISA from IN

Answers:

Keeping Birds from Eating Strawberries

Here is what I did for the cars and I am thinking it would work as well for the birds on the strawberries:

Put up a line of string across or around your garden where they bother the most:

Hang these on the string:

• Trash bag shredded into a lot of long wavy things that blow in the wind
  

• CD on a string
  

• Chimes (they hate these)
  

• Little windmills you buy at the dollar store, stick them in the dirt by the strawberries.
  

• Buy fake snakes and place them around
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• Foil plates hanging or foil butterflies made out of foil tied together in the middle..it looks like a bowtie.

Hope these work! (06/24/2009)

By Robyn Fed

Keeping Birds from Eating Strawberries

P>Very best idea: Rescue an outdoor cat. Our little hunter-cat keeps birds away!

• You can also buy a "Motion Sensor Owl"

• You can also hand old CDs that flash in the wind and reflect sunlight

• Use a motion sensor tape recording of human's voices or predator birds

• Use a supersonic bird chase

• place a net over the plants

• place rubber snakes around bushes and move them daily

• buy a "wirley bird repeller"

• Metallic streamers, like metallic ribbon from the dollar store tied to vine:

• At the dollar store I've seen lengths of gold "rope" with attached coin-shaped plastic thin metallic tags that sparkle. This is sold in the ribbon area of Dollar Tree.
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• Irri-Tape iridescent bird deterrent foil combines holography, wind and light to irritate birds:

• Hang Christmas ornaments and tinsel that sparkle and move in the wind
  

  By Cyinda

  

  Keeping Birds from Eating Strawberries

  I have read that early in the season to paint rocks about the size of strawberries red and place in plants. The birds try these and give up. I don't know if it works may be worth a try. I use old net and sheer curtains to cover my plants and this does work. Thrift stores are a good source for sheer curtains.

  (06/26/2009)
  

  By Bootsie Battle