Michigan Gardening: Hello everyone!, 0 by lena9221

lena9221 wrote:
Here's a pic of the new addition to the garden. I was having some trouble with the birds. Off I went in search of an effective scarecrow.
This is what I found:
"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."

I was saving the discs from an old hard drive to make a windchime. They are exceptionally shiny. I modified the design, added a tube from an old windchime for an occasional noise, and voila! It's seems to be working. I need a really big one for the pool cover and I may have those birds beat! Ha ha ha!

Lena