Sparrows feed on insects, they help summer residents to get rid of pests. However, if sparrows are short of basic food, they can easily spoil crops and destroy crops. Having settled under your roof, the birds will cause a lot of inconvenience: traces of droppings, chirping, constant noise. This article will show you how to get rid of sparrows in your area. Several simple and available ways will allow you to save your harvest and your own nerves.
How to get rid of sparrows using available tools?
If birds are purposefully destroying plants from several beds, try to protect them with a special net. It is enough to drive in a few stakes around the perimeter and pull the threads between them. It is better to use a removable mesh on the frame, then plant care will be greatly simplified;
cassette tape can scare off sparrows. If you do not have such a rarity, you can safely use the usual New Year's rain. Old CDs can also be hung around the perimeter suburban area... They will reflect the sun's rays, and this will frighten the birds;
The scarecrow is a very old but time-tested remedy for feathered pests. Everyone can build such a structure. Tie two long sticks with a cross and hang your old clothes on them. For more realism, you can fill the scarecrow with straw.
Unusual loud sounds, rustling shiny products, cans- all this can be used to scare away sparrows.
How to get rid of roof sparrows?
Birds often settle under the canopy. If the sparrows decide to make a nest, it will not be so easy to drive them away. The easiest way is to get a cat who will pay them a visit and scare them properly. If you don't have a fluffy pet, you can ask your neighbor for a while from a summer cottage.
You can also drive the sparrows out from under the roof with the help of anti-slip spikes. Such products are placed directly on the eaves to make it inconvenient for the birds to return to the nest. This method works gradually. Sparrows will simply get tired of constantly overcoming the obstacle, and they will start looking for another place to nest. Have patience, and forward to effective control of pest sparrows! These humane methods will help you get rid of an unpleasant neighborhood without harming the birds.
Birds can delight in their luxurious plumage, touch with chirps or delight with flooded trills, however, if they occupy your home, you will understand how unpleasant these feathered neighbors are. Inhabitants of old private houses are waging an irreconcilable war with pigeons, sparrows or swallows, freely settling under the roof. These uninvited tenants of attics bring a lot of inconvenience, so only an avid bird watcher can put up with such a neighborhood. In this article, we will show you how to get rid of pigeons on the roof, as well as what to do to get birds to bypass your house.
Pigeons, sparrows, swallows, jackdaws and wagtails are uninvited guests who willfully settle in under the roof of a house or in the attic. At first, homeowners may even like the cheerful fuss of chicks around the nest and their cheerful chirping, but do not forget that birds carry a large number of diseases, the cause of unsanitary conditions. Living literally under the same roof with birds carries with it the following dangers:
- Noise... Birds are a very active people, so they do not sit still, but constantly go about their important business, loudly clattering their claws on the metal roof and flapping their wings.
- Unsanitary conditions... Pigeons often carry such a serious disease as tuberculosis, psittacosis. In addition, their droppings contain equally dangerous viruses, fungi and infections.
- Dirt... As a result of the vital activity of birds, a lot of debris is formed. In addition to feathers, down, droppings accumulated in the habitats of birds, small debris accumulates in attics and roofs, which they bring to build nests.
Note! Birds often arrange their nests in such a way that they interfere with the ventilation of the roof of the house, making it difficult for air to circulate, as a result of which the thermal insulation material and the rafter frame quickly deteriorate.
Ways to fight
Residents of the upper floors know that the constant noise from feathered neighbors can torture even the most patient person. When small birds populate the attic, a large amount of droppings, feathers, dust and debris accumulate, which makes it almost impossible to go there.
In addition, the danger of catching a dangerous disease exists even if you inhale dust particles that contain microparticles of pigeon droppings. Bird control measures are divided into the following types:
- Warning... These measures include a set of actions aimed at making the roof structure unattractive to birds. To do this, when designing a structure, it is necessary to avoid protrusions or niches, which can become a convenient place for nesting.
- Deterrent... These measures are aimed at creating such conditions that will scare birds away from human dwellings. To make the roof of the house unattractive for the birds, sound or light effects are used, anti-projection devices that make it difficult to land on the roof slopes.
- Fighter... These measures include the destruction of birds and their nests by physical or chemical methods. They are the most inhuman, cruel method of getting rid of birds, therefore they are used extremely rarely.
Important! When deciding how to get rid of pigeons on the roof of the balcony, you need to familiarize yourself with the law "On the protection environment", Which states that the destruction of birds and their nests in their natural habitat is an administrative offense. Although pigeons and sparrows are not listed in the Red Book, they are also part of our ecosystem, so it is necessary to make them eviction from the roof as humane as possible.
Scare Methods
Since the destruction of bird nests is prohibited by law, it is necessary to scare them away from your home even before nesting begins. To make the attic unattractive for feathered inhabitants, you can use light and sound effects, which they will mistake for signs of danger.
The most humane and effective methods of scaring birds away from the roof are:
Many homeowners and upstairs tenants are wondering how to get rid of sparrows on their own without harming them. This problem has an obvious answer - it is enough to just get a cat, which by its very appearance will scare away feathered residents to a safe distance without the use of special devices.
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Many means have been tried to control harmful birds.
V last years great development received chemical methods of control. Poisonous substances are used most often in a bait product - grain, etc. Due to the fact that birds have the ability to easily get used to certain feeding places, poisoned food can be placed in isolated areas or special feeders where preliminary groundbaiting is carried out with a clean product.
Oddly enough, but birds - such mobile active creatures with a high level of metabolism - are quite resistant to many poisons. In order to cause their poisoning (especially for birds of the passerine order), the most highly toxic preparations for warm-blooded animals are required.
One of the first poisons widely used against birds was strychnine and its derivatives. Baits with strychnine were especially popular in the 50s of our century in the German Democratic Republic, the Federal Republic of Germany, England, the USA and a number of other countries. The fight against harmful birds was carried out in winter in settlements and on poultry farms. Wheat was used as a bait product. Strychnine was added to it in such an amount that a lethal (lethal) dose of poison for a sparrow was contained in two grains. The bait, so that it is easily recognized by humans and less attractive to beneficial birds, was most often painted blue or green.
Sparrows were fought as follows. On special feeders, raised above the ground and sometimes tightened with a large-mesh metal mesh, the birds were fed for at least three days. When they got used to the place of feeding and the color of the food, the unpoisoned grain was replaced with the poisoned one. After eating the bait with strychnine, the birds died quickly (within 15 minutes), so that the corpses are easy to collect. As a result, in the GDR alone in the winter of 1953/54, about 1.7 million corpses of sparrows were collected. However, later it turned out that after the destruction of 70% of the wintering population, the number of sparrows is fully restored within three years. Gradually, the fascination with the method of using strychnine baits to fight sparrows passed. And it is not surprising, since this poison is highly toxic for all warm-blooded animals, including humans, and it is certainly risky to use it in settlements.
In the early sixties in Australia, strychnine was added to grain baits and drinkers to control the emu.
In China, grain bait with white arsenic was used against sparrows. Arsenic compounds were also used for this purpose in the USSR. BK Shtegman (1954, 1956) developed a system of measures to combat sparrows in Kazakhstan. It proposed poisoning sparrows with wheat soaked in a solution of sodium arsenite in early spring at last year's currents. Later, with the beginning of the ripening of winter barley, it was recommended to treat special bait crops with a suspension of calcium arsenate. However, this method was not widely used: firstly, the bait with sodium arsenite, as shown by the data of the employees of the Kazakh Institute of Plant Protection and ours, is poorly eaten by birds, and secondly, due to the peculiarities of the weather conditions in Kazakhstan, seedlings of winter crops begin to appear only after rainfall, regardless of the sowing date. Therefore, bait crops of barley enter the stage of milky-wax maturity simultaneously with the rest of the crops of this culture, without fulfilling their assigned role.
Later, we and the employees of the Kazakh Institute for Plant Protection used grain baits with 0.1% barium fluoroacetate or 0.2% fluoroacetamide to control sparrows (mainly migratory species). The poisoned bait was sprinkled on open areas soil along nesting colonies of sparrows or around crops damaged by them. This method of control has had a good effect in most areas of southern Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Armenia. To increase the safety of livestock bait, millet has been used as a bait product. It was scattered on soil with a density of no more than 3-4 grains per 1 cm 2. Grazing cattle did not collect small, sparsely located grains. In order to further secure the use of these drugs in Armenia, their content in the bait was reduced to 0.05%. We also used baits poisoned with barium fluoroacetate and fluoroacetamide against sedentary species of sparrows in the Leningrad region and Krasnodar Territory... The struggle was carried out in the winter in grain warehouses.
It is interesting to note that when almost the entire population of house and field sparrows were exterminated in winter at the breeding site (in Suida) of the North-West Research Institute of Agriculture in the spring of next year, no damage was observed by these birds to grain crops, which was noted annually. The full number of sparrows and their harmfulness recovered only in the third year after treatment.
Despite the fairly widespread use of this method of fighting sparrows, there were no cases of death from the bait of livestock. This is explained by the fact that the bait with the specified method of feeding cannot be collected by cows or sheep in an amount sufficient for poisoning. True, there was a massive death of cats and dogs eating the corpses of sparrows that died from poisoning. In the Kurdai district of the Dzhambul region, where in the summer there was a fight against sparrows in forest belts, the next winter the death of foxes and a sharp decrease in their number were noted.
Due to the general high toxicity of organofluorine drugs, they are no longer used in agriculture either for controlling birds or rodents, against which they were also widely used.
White phosphorus is often used to control corvids in Western Europe. Poultry eggs are taken as bait, some of the contents are removed from them with a syringe and replaced with 2% phosphorus. In the spring, these eggs are laid out in the fields or in artificial nests.
Feral pigeons were exterminated using bait with hydrocyanic acid in the cities of Hungary, the Federal Republic of Germany, the German Democratic Republic and a number of other European countries. This poison has advantages over others. It acts very quickly - pigeons that have eaten the poisoned bait die in 30 seconds, without having time to fly far from the bait site, and their corpses are easy to collect. In addition, hydrocyanic acid decomposes in the digestive tract of the bird and the carcasses of pigeons do not cause secondary poisoning. However, hydrocyanic acid is a poison of the first category, highly toxic for all warm-blooded animals, and this should always be remembered.
In some countries, a diene synthesis drug, endrin, has been used against birds. Being a poison intended for fighting insects, it turned out to be of such a wide spectrum of toxic effects that it began to be used, in particular in Africa, to control weavers and other birds. But due to its high toxicity for mammals and a pronounced ability to cause secondary poisoning, the drug is not widely used.
To combat birds, in recent years, the United States has been looking for drugs with a more selective action, low toxicity for mammals. Among them is the drug DRC-1339 (3-chloro-p-toluidine hydrochloride), which is highly toxic to starlings, red-winged corpses and bulbul. It is used to control starlings in Colorado (USA). True, there is information about the poor eating of baits with this poison by birds.
The most widely used for poultry control in the United States is currently 4 nitropyridine N-hydroxy called Avitrol-100 and 4 Aminopyridine, i.e. Avitrol-200. The drugs begin to work in 15 minutes. and lasts 20-30 minutes, poisoning with them causes nervous phenomena - screams, convulsions. For gregarious species, it is enough for symptoms of poisoning to appear in at least one individual, since the rest of the birds get scared and fly away. This can be considered a positive circumstance, if it is necessary to scare birds away from a certain area, and negative, when it is necessary to reduce their number. Avitrol does not cause secondary poisoning. The bait with this poison has been successfully used in the USA against red-winged corpses, starlings and other species. In addition, spraying with Avitrol on ripening corn cobs was tested. Not the entire field was cultivated, but separate, carefully marked, small areas, from which the plants were harvested and buried before harvesting. A decrease in the harmfulness of birds was observed both in the fields with treated plots and in the neighboring ones.
Thus, the most highly toxic to warm-blooded poisons were used to control birds by the method of poisoned baits: strychnine, barium fluoroacetate, hydrocyanic acid. Only Avitrol has a somewhat selective effect, while the rest of the drugs are toxic to mammals and humans, no less, and often more, than for birds.
As evidenced by the above facts, birds that harm agricultural crops are highly resistant to intestinal poisons and it is not easy to find drugs to combat them that would not work on other warm-blooded animals, including humans. Apparently, in the future, the bait method of poisoning birds will not find widespread use. It is no coincidence that in recent years it is no longer used in Western Europe and in the USSR.
At the same time, there are bird control methods that are more dangerous for the environment than bait. For example, in Africa, contact poisons, parathion and fenthion, are currently used to control red-billed weavers. These drugs are sprayed at night from planes over bird colonies or in places of their massive overnight stay. Due to the fact that so far there are no other effective ways of protecting grain crops, especially millet, from tkachikosis, these drugs are widely used. But, as you know, they have a very wide spectrum of action and are dangerous not only for all species of birds, but also for all vertebrates and invertebrates living in the cultivated area.
In the United States, anhydrous ammonia gas has been used with good results to eradicate indoor birds. Undoubtedly, if necessary, this is the only one real way fighting birds indoors.
To reduce the number of harmful bird species, poisons in recent years are increasingly being replaced by hypnotic drugs. Narcotic substances are added to the feed, which is laid out on special feeding grounds or in places where birds usually feed. Having taken the treated bait, the birds soon fall asleep, completely losing their mobility. During this time, they can be collected and destroyed. If among the sleeping birds there are those that are not subject to extermination, they can be released after awakening. True, in some cases, the bait with sleeping pills, eaten in excessive quantities, causes the death of birds, which is undesirable in relation to useful species. In addition, birds that take the bait can fly a long distance or fall asleep in places where they are difficult to reach. For example, when we tested the luminal lure on pigeons in an urban setting, most birds fell asleep on the eaves of the fourth and fifth floor windows. Therefore, it is more important that the sleeping pills used to trap the birds act quickly rather than sustainably. If the birds fall asleep after a very short period of time, they will not have time to fly far from the place where the bait is fed and eat too much of it.
To a large extent, these requirements are met by the alpha isomer of chloralose, which has replaced all other previously used narcotic substances. Baits with alpha chloralose gave nice results when fighting crows in hunting farms in Finland. They are often used to control blue pigeons and house sparrows in cities in Western Europe and the United States. In Australia, such baits are laid against these birds in barnyards and poultry farms. The alpha-chloralose-treated bait in New Zealand was thrown from an airplane to a nesting colony of Dominican gulls near the airfield. As a result, a large number of birds were destroyed and the number of collisions with aircraft decreased.
The use of sleeping pills for bird control is most widespread in cities. Alpha-chloralose is rarely used against birds that harm crops. True, in England, the method of dealing with wood pigs with grain baits soaked in this preparation has successfully passed production tests. To reduce the possibility of death of small granivorous birds, beans, unattractive to them, were used here as a bait product. It has been found that it is impractical to apply this method to control the entire population of wood pigs, but in selected fields, especially those affected by birds, it can help. After laying out the baits, wood pigs do not appear on the field for several weeks. During this period, the plants manage to bypass the stage of development in which they are most damaged by birds. The bait with alpha-chloralose begins to have a narcotic effect in 15-30 minutes. and it lasts 10-20 hours. Although the drug is also used against house sparrows, there is evidence that it has a very weak effect on them.
Abroad in Lately For the control of birds, another group of substances is being tested - chemosterilants. The essence of their action is to reduce the number of birds not by direct destruction, but by artificial regulation of their reproduction. This method of all the existing ones seems to be the most humane. By reducing the number of nesting cycles or interrupting reproductive cycles altogether for some time, it is possible to maintain the number of certain bird species at a level at which they are not capable of harming humans.
A number of substances have been tested as sterilants for birds. By laboratory experiments, it was established in what doses the drugs are needed to stop reproduction for a certain period of time, what is their general toxicity and repellent properties in the bait product. As a result of experiments carried out mainly in the United States on blue pigeons, the drug 20.25 diazocholesterol dihydrochloride (SC-12937) was identified, which at a dose of 375 mg per individual interrupts egg-laying for 77 days, and at a dose of 500 mg for 102 days. However, a bait with the amount of substance required to obtain an effect is often poorly eaten by birds. During field trials in small settlements with the help of this chemosterilant, it was possible to stop the reproduction of rock pigeons in colonies for 5-7 months. The larger the settlement and the higher the rate of exchange of birds between colonies, the less effect the drug had. Against red-winged corpses and starlings, a cheosterilant, triethylenemelamine, was used.
Most works devoted to the study of the effect of chemosterilants on birds indicate the insufficient development of this method and the need to continue research. One cannot but agree with this, since there are still no effective sterilants, feed with an admixture of which birds do not refuse to eat. The creation of such drugs with the necessary properties will allow people to regulate the number of birds living in the anthropogenic landscape.
Thus, of the chemical means of fighting birds in the agricultural zone, poisons used with food bait are now the most widespread. But recently they are losing popularity, because they have a disastrous effect on useful animals. Even more dangerous is the pollination of territories with preparations of contact action. The bait method using narcotic substances is much safer, but it is very laborious due to the need to collect sleeping birds and therefore is unacceptable for widespread use in practice. Chemosterilants can be promising in reducing the number of birds only if they become highly selective, otherwise they will have the same disadvantages as ordinary poisons. In the meantime Agriculture does not have reliable chemicals for reducing unwanted bird species that are safe for beneficial birds and mammals. However, the search for them is being carried out intensively.
From physical methods regulation of the number of birds the most ancient is shooting. But it is only effective against a very few species. Often these are large birds whose meat is eaten. Then shooting makes some practical sense. When fighting in this way with representatives of the order of passerines, where pests include small birds or with little edible meat, the cost of money and time does not pay off. Shooting is currently being carried out to exterminate crows in hunting grounds.
The physical method of bird control includes primarily different ways catching. Most often, automatic traps are used. In a number of European countries, a specially designed raven trap is widely used. It is made of light frames connected by hooks and works most effectively when "semolina birds" are planted in it. There are many sparrow traps, from small automatic to large stationary ones, which are used at breeding stations in Western Europe. These traps are set on the earliest grain plots. The sparrows that have flown into the trap from above are driven into its narrow cylindrical end and then removed from there. In England, bullfinches in gardens are caught with a box trap with sorrel seed bait. For catching starlings, birdhouses with an automatically slamming entrance are used. However, when dealing with gregarious migratory species, the best effect is given by large light traps installed during the flight of birds in the places of their nights. In such traps, US farmers caught a huge number of ox birds. In some apiaries in Azerbaijan, fishing hooks with live drones are sometimes used to catch golden bee-eaters.
All methods of ruining nests are no less cruel, in particular, blocking the entrance to the bee-eater burrow with clay when the female incubates eggs. The destruction of nests is carried out when fighting birds, the harm from which in certain conditions especially great. This method was recommended to be used from the twenties to the sixties in the colonies of Indian and Spanish sparrows in many regions of Central Asia - Uzbekistan, South Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan. In Rostov and a number of other regions of the RSFSR in the sixties, the destruction of nests was practiced in a colony of rooks. But usually this gave an effect only when there were already chicks in the colony. Birds disturbed at the early stages of nesting quickly restore nests and clutches. On the protected islands in England and Holland, the control of gulls in the colonies was carried out as follows. Bird nests here are located open on the ground and are therefore easily accessible. Given the ability of gulls to quickly restore lost clutches, when the colonies were destroyed, the eggs were not taken from the nests, but the embryo was killed in them. To do this, the eggs were boiled, or covered with oil or kerosene, or pierced the shell with a thick needle.
The laborious method of busting nests is sometimes mechanized. In some cities of the GDR, in order to prevent rooks from nesting in churches, dropping nests is carried out with a stream of water using fire fighting equipment. In Africa, colonies of weavers (before they began to use parathion) were destroyed by shells with explosive mixtures and flamethrowers.
To reduce the number of starlings in Western Europe, for more than ten years it has been promoted not to hang artificial nesting sites suitable for these birds, that is, with a tap hole diameter of 4.5-5 cm.
In general, of the physical methods of fighting birds, there is not a single one that is sufficiently versatile and reliable. Apparently, trapping, although this is the most ancient and painstaking method, requiring great knowledge of the object and the ingenuity of performers, will become the leading one in the future, especially since it is the least dangerous for other species of animals. In addition, the industry will produce more and more new materials, many of which can be used to make comfortable and light fishing gear. For example, the appearance in the recent past of the finest and strongest nylon threads made it possible to widely use nets for catching birds when ringing.
The problem of the penetration of sparrows into closed rooms is quite relevant. Shopping pavilions, warehouses, supermarkets, metro stations, etc. suffer from annoying "neighbors". Birds can live on the site constantly or accidentally fly through holes in the wall structures. This leads to significant destruction of packaging materials, damage food products, violation of the sanitary and hygienic state of the premises as a whole.
SPARROWS: WHAT THREATS THE BIRD "NEIGHBORHOOD"
Expelling a flock of birds yourself is not an easy and tedious task. For more than 5 years, one of the main tasks of the Liquidator company has been the effective extermination of sparrows and pigeons in agricultural, industrial and commercial areas. We know how dangerous the habitation of a large population of birds in a farm can be, and we are ready to competently apply our knowledge at your facility!
Scaring off flocks of passerines is a precautionary measure that helps to avoid serious problems such as:
- the transfer of dangerous infections and helminths by birds;
- infestation of the premises with ticks and fleas;
- damage to architectural structures;
- damage by bird droppings to surfaces and engineering structures opened with varnish or paint;
- destruction / contamination of food stocks in granaries, elevator stations, grocery stores;
- constant noise.
PROFESSIONAL SPARROW FIGHT
Depending on the scale of the premises, as well as its purpose, the Liquidator company uses the most effective methods destruction and scaring away sparrows. We provide a pest-control service for industrial and warehouse facilities, which includes a whole range of pest control measures and tracking their numbers. Working with living creatures - birds - we take into account the peculiarities of their behavior, nutrition, lodging for the night, movement, and thereby minimize the extermination of individuals, focusing on scaring away.
To save you from pests that cause material damage, we use modern equipment and auxiliary structures:
- mechanical elements that impede the movement of birds and landing on surfaces;
- visual deterrent devices, acoustic equipment;
- means that violate the orientation of the sparrows in space (sound, visual).
Sparrow control methods are divided into indoor and outdoor activities. Conventionally, we distinguish several main stages when scaring away birds:
- preparatory. It includes blocking access routes to the premises of new individuals (doors, cracks, broken windows), destroying nests, blocking access to water and food (fruits, vegetables, meat, liquid);
- expulsion of birds from the premises. Actions are carried out mainly at night, using additional light sources, strip curtains, bioacoustic devices, glue traps, etc .;
- external scare off. To get rid of the bird population, all possible shelters near the object, attractive to sparrows, are destroyed, acoustic installations, visual scaring objects, etc. are used.
We will carefully analyze the location and territorial features of your farm, we will select the most effective means to scare away or destroy sparrows, as well as develop a detailed set of measures for cleaning the facility from pests.
KILLING SPARROWS AND PIGEONS: PREVENTIVE MEASURES
So that the problem of the mass distribution of birds at the site does not become catastrophic, preventive measures should be taken and sparrows should not be allowed to enter the territory.
Protect yourself from serious losses by ordering a pest control service from our company! Experienced employees of the Liquidator service will not allow the breeding of bird flocks at the enterprise or in the hypermarket, prevent an increase in the number of birds and promptly scare away / destroy sparrows if necessary. The following actions will be preventive measures in the fight against sparrows, pigeons, swallows and other birds:
- limit the access routes of birds to the premises (sealing cracks, carefully closing doors, windows, hatches);
- Design engineering structures for potential bird intrusion (for example, eaves at a 45-degree angle rather than a 90-degree angle);
- protect packing container food products to block access to food for sparrows;
- avoid open storage of food waste or supplies.
Call us to get professional advice and order a visit of a specialist to the object. We will help you reduce the attractiveness of the facility for birds, protect your business from material loss, monitor and control the birdwatching situation at the enterprise as a whole.
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Article: How to Get Rid of Sparrows
SPARROW PROTECTION. SPLIT FLOWERS. In winter, we build various feeders to prevent various small birds from starving to death. Titmouses - pieces of bacon, sparrows - bread crumbs and small cereals. Birds remember goodness and fly to the backyard even in summer, when there seems to be plenty of bird food everywhere. They, like real orderlies, rid the soil of all kinds of pests - beetles and other insects.
But we ourselves are struggling with crop pests and it happens that the usual food for the sparrows is not enough.
That's when their curious glances turn to food, which for some reason we considered ours - to our harvest of cherries, cherries, strawberries. Sometimes a flock of sparrows is able to completely destroy the entire harvest of fruits and berries, as well as flowers.
Only after examining the irreparable damage caused do we begin to think about fighting the sparrows. It must be said that ANY "folk" means of scaring away birds from the backyard do not give a positive result, but you can still try.
1. The cardinal solution to the issue of protecting the crop from birds can only be covering all the beds and trees with a bird net, but it is inconvenient in terms of plant care. To facilitate such care, you can build a mobile frame made of thin slats according to the size of the beds, covering the frame itself with a bird net. Of course, you cannot build a frame to protect fruit trees, so you have to either come to terms with a tree completely covered with a mesh, or apply:
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Acoustic repeller... This is a device that you can buy online. Its principle of operation is to make sounds similar to screams. birds of prey... Small birds in horror leave your garden plot and do not return while the device is turned on. The same effect of protection against birds is provided by the use of an ultrasonic bird repeller. However, these devices have very significant disadvantages.
Firstly, from the operation of the ultrasonic repeller, your dog will simply go crazy, since the human ear does not hear ultrasound, and the dog's ear can even hear it. Secondly, when the acoustic repeller is working, you can not even hope that your poultry will be cheerful and calm and will continue to carry eggs - this is a nightmare not only for sparrows, but also for ducks and chickens, and to no lesser extent. In addition, these devices are very expensive and, if you have a rather large plot of summer cottage land, then you will have to buy several units at once. What is left for us?
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Folk remedies.
SPARROW PROTECTION. SCARY HAND-MADE.
a) Homemade scarecrow for fighting sparrows can be made from any old clothes by placing it on a cruciform pole. Instead of a head, you can take a piece of a sheet, a pillowcase, and so on, stuffing it with foam rubber, rags and the like. Leave the sleeves loose, swaying in the wind. You need to understand that the birds will quickly get used to the "man" standing alone in the garden and will cease to be afraid of the scarecrow.
SPARROW PROTECTION. SUSPENSION OF SHINING OBJECTS.
b) Applying sun and wind... Sparrows and other small birds are afraid of sudden glare from the sun, so you can hang kitchen foil scraps, New Year's "rains", pieces of video tape, DVDs on the trees. The method is applicable only in sunny and at the same time windy weather.
v) Bird protection around the perimeter of the site can look like a stretched wire or rope to which empty beer cans, spirals from cans, or whole cans are tied in pairs. With gusts of wind, these banks will hit each other and scare away unwanted feathered guests.
G) Bird pest protection can be built on the basis of "feeding". Buy a package of cheap cereals and put 2 packs of red pepper into it. Stir the mixture thoroughly and sprinkle it in areas where sparrows usually congregate. After a while, they will feel that it is unsafe to peck food in your garden and will leave your garden plot.
SPARROW PROTECTION. APPLICATION OF SWIVELS.
e) Scaring sparrows from the crop can be done by building all kinds of turntables and placing them near the beds or places where flocks of birds accumulate. It is good to pour inside a turntable made of plastic bottle, something more rattling, for example, a dozen grains of buckwheat or light balls. As the turntable rotates from the wind, the contents will additionally scare away birds.
4. Well, and absolutely brutal ways to protect the crop from birds. Yes, they are not humane, but with absolutely guaranteed results. We do not recommend using them precisely because of the cruelty. If you are convinced that no folk methods of scaring away birds have yielded results, then ... You can poison birds(sold), for example, poisoned food. Can be produced sparrow shooting from pneumatic weapons - rifles, using lead bullets with a diameter of 4.5 mm. The killed birds need to be hung somewhere in prominent places, as they say, "so that the living are afraid." Once again, we apologize for describing these brutal methods of drastic control of the bird invasion.
Which of the above to apply is up to you, based on your own preferences and financial capabilities. As we have already said above, a decisive result is brought only by the complete covering of fruit trees and beds with nets, acoustic and ultrasonic deterrence and physical destruction of passerine flocks.
Forget about the feeders forever. Yes, this will reduce the joy of visiting your favorite summer cottage or somewhat reduce the charm of your personal plot, but what to do, the harvest is more expensive ...
We remind you that you can buy the freshest quail eggs in Monino, homemade chicken eggs, poultry meat, as well as bulbous and rhizome garden flowers.
