[492FT] Effective Birds Scare Ribbon, Reflective Flash Reflectors to Keep Pigeons, Hawks, Woodpeckers, Geeses Away from Trees Plants Crops

I had hawks showing up in my backyard looking to make dinner out of my chickens. After losing one of my girls, I tied pieces of this ribbon all over my yard on my bushes and trees and have not seen a hawk in this yard in well over five months. Highly recommend.

It is what it says it is...but don't think it had much effect on the birds. My trees look like they're decorated with Christmas icicles, but I still have those darned grackles. I wish I could figure out how to get these higher up into the trees. I tie a piece of yarn to the middle of a strip of this, then a rock on one end of the yarn and a stick on the other end and throw the whole thing as high into the tree as possible. The rock gives it momentum and the stick helps it catch on the branches. Trouble is, I can't throw but about 25' up and the tree is probablyy 50-60' where the grackles roost in the top.

It is the best bird deterrent. Much better than an eagle and a bunch of rubber snakes I bought. Easy to hang around branches where fruit is growing. Will order some more....

We get swallows every year who want to build their nests near the top of my front and back porch roofs on the far brick wall. I had put up some Bird-X netting under the front porch and over the front door that worked for several years but my wife got tired of looking at the netting and the spider webs that were built on the netting. So I got this tape and two sets of Metal Bird Scare Discs Shiny Wind Spinners (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D1VJK6V1). I cut several 18 inch pieces of the tape, folded over 1.25 inches of one end and wrapped the folded end with some heavy duty shipping tape, used a one-hole punch to make a hole about 1/2 inch from the fold, taped a penny using more shipping tape to add some weight to the ribbon. I then drilled several small holes spaced about 9 inches apart near the end of the porch roof where the swallows want to nest and screwed a brass cup hook in each hole. Starting from the porch brick wall I put up two ribbons, an assembled Metal Bird Scare disk, one more ribbon (I really wanted to add two ribbons and another assembled Metal Bird Scare disk but ran out of time and energy, will probably add next year). Worked like a charm. The area almost always has some breeze causing all ribbons and Bird Scare Disks to flutter and made the area not a nice place to build a nest. Swallows flew in, noticed all the moving stuff and flew right back out. Did the the same on the back porch near the brick wall where swallows tried to build a nest last year but I managed to discourage their nest building with some difficulty. This year the ribbons and disks worked on the back porch as good as they did on the front porch. No swallow nests=No droppings on the concrete below. I did build three swallow nesting boxes using plans I got online from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and mounted two but neither has ever been used since they were installed four or five years ago.

My birds seemed to love this tape. It didn't stop them from flying into my window.