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Assault on the mockingbirds - Battling fruit addicted birds
Posted on 3/25/15 at 2:25 pm
Posted on 3/25/15 at 2:25 pm
So, i have 2 blueberry bushes and a small fig tree in my backyard. Been having them for about 2.5 years now, and i've eaten a total of 3 or 4 figs, and a half a handful of blueberries. The damn mockingbirds keep snatching all my fruit. How do you deal with them?
My dog is too lazy to chase them anymore, and i work so i can't camp out with my pellet gun. I've tried pie pans on sticks, but that looked really bad in the back yard. Last year, i staked around the bushes/trees in all 4 corners and attached netting going to the ground. It worked for about 2 weeks. Then the birds started flying right up to the bush, landing on the ground, and hopping under the netting and snagging my berries/figs.
My plan this year is a large bird feeder in the other corner of the back yard in hopes it distracts them from my berries. Any suggestions on a viable solution to rid me of these bastards?
My dog is too lazy to chase them anymore, and i work so i can't camp out with my pellet gun. I've tried pie pans on sticks, but that looked really bad in the back yard. Last year, i staked around the bushes/trees in all 4 corners and attached netting going to the ground. It worked for about 2 weeks. Then the birds started flying right up to the bush, landing on the ground, and hopping under the netting and snagging my berries/figs.
My plan this year is a large bird feeder in the other corner of the back yard in hopes it distracts them from my berries. Any suggestions on a viable solution to rid me of these bastards?
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Posted on 3/25/15 at 2:29 pm to BugAC
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large bird feeder in the other corner
Yeah, that won't work.
Posted on 3/25/15 at 2:29 pm to BugAC
If the betting went all the way to the ground, how did they get under it?
Posted on 3/25/15 at 2:29 pm to gorillacoco
Netting, sorry
Posted on 3/25/15 at 2:30 pm to BugAC
Have you tried an owl decoy?
Posted on 3/25/15 at 2:30 pm to gorillacoco
Calm down sir
Posted on 3/25/15 at 2:31 pm to gorillacoco
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If the betting went all the way to the ground, how did they get under it?
I had about 4-6 inches of space from the bottom of the net to the ground. Smart bastards figured that out.
Posted on 3/25/15 at 2:31 pm to BugAC
Take an old cassette tape and stretch the tape across the area and over your bushes. Use several lengths of it. That tape fluttering in the wind scares birds. It worked for me protecting my strawberries...
Posted on 3/25/15 at 2:32 pm to gorillacoco
quote:
Have you tried an owl decoy?
No, i had a falcon decoy but it got blown off the top of the pergola and broke.
Posted on 3/25/15 at 2:32 pm to BFIV
What about a rubber snake? I heard that works sometimes.
Posted on 3/25/15 at 2:33 pm to BugAC
my devil cat keeps the birds out of my blueberry bushes
Posted on 3/25/15 at 2:53 pm to BugAC
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I had about 4-6 inches of space from the bottom of the net to the ground. Smart bastards figured that out.
shite if i were you i'd just get a larger net. sounds like you have the solution already, just need to tweak it.
Posted on 3/25/15 at 2:58 pm to BugAC
Rubber snake in the bush but visible will work.
Posted on 3/25/15 at 3:06 pm to bbvdd
quote:Tried this on my fruit trees. They figured out it wasn't real and then paid it no mind.
Rubber snake in the bush but visible will work.
Posted on 3/25/15 at 3:29 pm to BugAC
quote:
So, i have 2 blueberry bushes and a small fig tree in my backyard. Been having them for about 2.5 years now, and i've eaten a total of 3 or 4 figs, and a half a handful of blueberries. The damn mockingbirds keep snatching all my fruit. How do you deal with them?
My dog is too lazy to chase them anymore, and i work so i can't camp out with my pellet gun. I've tried pie pans on sticks, but that looked really bad in the back yard. Last year, i staked around the bushes/trees in all 4 corners and attached netting going to the ground. It worked for about 2 weeks. Then the birds started flying right up to the bush, landing on the ground, and hopping under the netting and snagging my berries/figs.
My plan this year is a large bird feeder in the other corner of the back yard in hopes it distracts them from my berries. Any suggestions on a viable solution to rid me of these bastards?
Spray your trees, they most likely are more after the bugs than the fruit.
Posted on 3/25/15 at 3:34 pm to BugAC
Shoot one and toss it in the tree.
My paw paw used to shoot a couple of non song birds and leave em under the feeder. Turns out birds are racist too. Unless it's one of them, they pay it no mind.
My paw paw used to shoot a couple of non song birds and leave em under the feeder. Turns out birds are racist too. Unless it's one of them, they pay it no mind.
Posted on 3/25/15 at 3:37 pm to BFIV
Cassette tape and or fishing line works, get a big roll of like 20-30 lb test and string it in the air so the sun glitters off it. it will keep them from flying near it.
Posted on 3/25/15 at 6:30 pm to BugAC
I haven't found anything that will work except the netting that you mention...I basically gave up on it because that is just too much of a pain in the arse...
Posted on 3/25/15 at 8:08 pm to Spankum
Get a cat. A cat will spend all its time killing things around your house. They get a bad rep because people want a cat to act like a dog but they are good pets if you accept them for what they are.
Posted on 3/25/15 at 10:25 pm to BugAC
7 1/2 shot works pretty good, but then again, I live in the country so the neighbors don't mind. Pie pan noisemakers mounted in the tree work to an extent. I'd like to one day have a low-powered, automated propane cannon for my muscadine vineyard.
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