Beginner Gardening: Help! The birds, the birds!, 0 by lena9221

lena9221 wrote:
Well, I got to reading up on the bird situation and here's what I came up with so far. (I was trying not to have to spend any money.)

I got this from a google search:
"An effective but inexpensive device for scaring pests, such as birds, from an area to be protected is formed from an elongated, vertically extending post; a resilient wire mounted on, and extending from, the upper end of the post; and a pair of large, thin, light weight, highly light reflective discs rotatably suspended from the remote end of the wire in cantilever fashion and responsive to wind forces on the discs in order to provide a random, distracting motion as well as to cast darting light reflections in a random, erratic manner on the area surrounding the post."

Ok...I've been saving some discs from an old hard drive I took apart to make windchimes out of. Those should work. I kind of modified the design, threw in a tube from an old windchime for the occasional noise, and this is what I came up with. It's actually working quite well and I didn't have to spend any money.