Surprise Pest

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Tracybutton

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Re: Surprise Pest
« Reply #15 on: May 05, 2018, 21:26 »
Our allotments back onto countryside, and pheasants are probably our biggest avian pest. Netting seems to be the only way to keep them off. They ate most of my un-netted swede and kale last winter.

My dog does is best to flush them (He’s an Irish Setter)  but can’t keep him there all the time, and the other plot holders would get upset at him rampaging anyway!

CDs don’t seem to work. Someone suggested a giant plastic hawk

I had thought about something like a plastic bird of prey, but the problem is we often get little wrens in our allotment and I'm sure these would be frightened away.

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Growster...

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Re: Surprise Pest
« Reply #16 on: May 08, 2018, 07:22 »
We have a coven of jackdaws living in the church tower (they must be deaf from the bells), but they often crash down onto our bird feeders, and chuck all the seeds around, as well as massacring the fatballs...

Our JRT goes mental when she gets the chance to see them, but Mrs Growster and I have to wave our arms frantically, which is not easy when there's a lasagne on the table, and maybe a glass of white...

They really are evil-looking birds!


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