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Deterring Birds From Your Home
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By Rick Chapo
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Bird watching is a growing phenomenon. It's great unless youhave birds "raining" down on your home. Fortunately, there are awide variety of bird deterrents available now. .
If you're reading this article, you have concerns for theenvironment and try to take steps not to destroy it. This isextremely commendable, but even the heartiest environmentalisthates the things birds can do. Sometimes they are just lettingnature take its course after eating while other times theyseemed to have picked your space as home. A couple birds can begreat. A flock can drive you insane.
The traditional method of dealing with excessive attention frombirds is the use of scarecrows. In theory, scarecrows presentbirds with the illusion of a person being present and supposedlyget the birds to move along to another neighborhood. As withmany traditional beliefs, this one is partially true. Birdsdon't care for humans, but traditional scarecrows really aren'tparticularly persuasive. Something that moves, however,definitely does the trick.
Modern scarecrows come in a variety of forms. None of them looklike the scarecrow in the Wizard of Oz. Instead, they tend tocome in two primary forms.
The first is in the form of a predatory bird that is motionactivated. A particular favorite is the owl, a known predator ofmost birds.
The second form of bird deterrents is the spinning arm device.Motion activated, the device sits on a platform and has long"arms" that whip around when activated. They are often called"whirly birds" or some similar title. To save a little money,you can even go with solar powered bird deterrents.
Solar powered deterrents tend to come in the whirly birdcategory. Motion activated predatory birds such as owls tend tobe battery operated, which can make them expensive over time.The best approach is typically to buy a solar whirly bird andlife-sized cheap owl. Place the owl an easily viewed area wherethe birds congregate and place the whirly bird exactly wherethey are causing problems. The combination usually takes care ofany problems.
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