Tips For Homemakers

Comment by Sandy

January 21, 2007 @ 9:43 am

Why don’t you make a scarecrow like the “FARMERS” do to protect their crops from blackbirds!! You know, stand him up on a pole with tin pie plates attached to his arms, or maybe just a pole with tin pie plates attached to it…I’m thinking the bright light reflecting off them will either attract “the poop birds” to the plate or scare them off…..Worth a try!!

Comment by Frankie

January 24, 2007 @ 7:13 am

We bought an artificial owl and put it up but no luck (an idea Calvin got from online). We looked up Mockingbirds and they are territorial birds. The bird actually seems to be attacking the mirror because it sees another bird in his territory.

We have also tried to park in another area but that didn’t work.

We have covered the mirrors with plastic bags, too and that seemed to work some but the bird still perches on the car roofs and poops all over the top, too.

I guess I will be making a run to the Feed Store to get some more hay to stuff me a scare crow. I feel terrible shooting my bb pistol at the bird. I thought I could scare it away because the odds of me actually hitting a target are slim to none. And of course, I have bird feeders out so I am going to attract birds (which by the way, I love birds).