Hi I'm Jim Harmon, California Pest Management.
You got pigeon problems around your house
or birds coming around, and they're running
around and you want to scare them out of your
garden. Well having birds typically is not
a problem, most people like that. But pigeons
and some of these nastier birds, you want
to keep them away. Well this may be a good
use for your old CDs. Take your CD and any
type of twine, string, normally I like to
use something with color so I can see it,
but if you don't want to and you're worried
about having some twine that's not going to
last, use fishing line, monofilament line
works great on this. All we're going to do
is take about a foot to two feet of string,
loop it through the CD, tie it off, I actually
go three half knots. Now we're ready to hang
it. As this twirls it picks up the sunlight
and creates a little bit of an illusion of
a prism, flashing a little light off of it,
birds don't like that. Especially in the wind
this will keep moving around, they don't like
that, it irritates them, it freaks them out
and it scares them, because it also is a random
movement. Now mind you, the birds will get
use to it, especially with pigeons. Now when
you're ready to hang these cut the length
of twine at different lengths, that way they'll
hang at different levels. And you can also
put two on the same, or three or four, depending
on how long an area you need to cover. Just
remember you're going to want to watch out
so you don't hit these with yourself. Okay,
now we put our CDs up. Now for an average
awning, for example in our backyard here,
I want the birds to stay out from underneath
so I don't get bird poop all over my picnic
table. Well I'll be hanging these all over
the perimeter, usually every 5 to 6 feet,
that should be more than enough, on a nice
bright sunny day with a little bit of wind,
they're going to be twirling around making
all kinds of visual deterrence for these birds.
If you have them in your garden you can hang
these actually around your property and it
will deter the birds from going onto the property
to a certain degree.
