Kelly B asked:


I love my hanging plants, but for some reason, birds love to set up nests in them. Try as I might, what with watering, puffing, maintaining and watching, I still seem to lose this batlle.

Once the nest is set, and the eggs are laid, I cannot and will not touch it. I just let my lovely flowering petunia plant die and become a condo with a view.

I would never harm the nest, nor upset the process of baby birds, but I would like to come up with a way to avoid this.

Thanks!

DOMINICK

lil_britches2003 asked:


This year is my first year at attempting strawberries. I wasn’t sure how easy or hard it would be. Not knowing, I only planted three plants and I put them in a planter. In three short weeks, my plants have tripled in size and I’ve gotten strawberries. However, before they have a chance to completely ripen, the birds are eating them before I get to even sample them. How do I keep the birds away?

PIERRE

Maia’s Mom asked:


My tree is finally giving fruit again since the hurricane season from hell, but the birds are eating all the mangoes. Any suggestions?
I am not sure about a “traditional” scarecrow, because the tree is rather tall and wide, so the birds wouldn’t really see it from the top.

Thanks in advance!

WILFRED

bobbypin asked:


I have a window-box planted with flowers. It is in a shady, cool spot and the birds love to sit there. Unfortunately, they keep smashing my flowers. How do I keep the birds away?

DAVIS

Claire asked:


We have potted flowers out on our deck, and lately the birds have been destroying them. How can we prevent this? Thank you.

TYLER

rowbee asked:


i have a neighbor who is obsessed with feeding the birds. she has at leat 50 bird feeders, will give them 3 loafs of bread a week and 3 bowls of popcorn a day, she told me she goes through 40 lbs of seed a week. i told her it would be better for the birds and everyone around, if she could minimize her feeding habits. i find dead birds on my property all the time. her answer is “well thats nature”

so now they are taking baths and crapping allover my pond which has a wooden exterior and i applied two coats of polyurethane, so how else can i protect my pond and its contents. one of my fish is missing, so now i think the birds are eating them(goldfish) its a 313 gallon pond.
i have only seen the birds land on my lily pads and than quickly jump off

MONROE

insharc asked:


Have a small garden with five plants. Last year the local birds did a lot of damage, and this year they seem to be starting again with the few tomatoes that already ripened.

I tried last year a net that they sell at Home Depot, but it blocked the sun and killed the plants. This year I put some red Christmas tree bulbs on the plants - read somwhere that the birds will think it’s fruit, peck on it, hurt their beaks, and give up.
This doesn’t seem likely but right now I’ll try anything. (Putting water out for them didn’t work either.)

I could pick the tomatoes before they’re ripe, but they don’t taste as good as vine-ripened.

Anyone have any experience with this prob, and a sure-fire remedy?

LUCAS

noone9328 asked:


We live in Southern Michigan in an apartment complex. There are a lot of crab apple trees lined up and one about 15 feet in front of our balcony. We’ve seen (and heard) lots of birds that seem to be living in that tree, and some that seem to live inside vent covers on the side of the building. I don’t know what kind of birds they are, but they are very small and not very colorful, with patterns of brown, black, white, and maybe a hint of yellow on some. The seed we put in was a fruit-sunflower mix (with those little round ones, too). The feeder is hanging at the edge of the balcony (second floor) about 3 feet higher than the tree. We put the feeder up last night, and this morning, one or two birds noticed the spilled seed on the balcony, but none have actually gone to the feeder. We tried putting little piles of seed on the rails of the balcony leading up to the feeder, but they haven’t found those either. Do I need to adjust something for them to take notice?

SILAS

BroknWing asked:


We live in the midwest and I’ve hung out 6 bird feeders, we’re offering niger seed, sunflower seed, mixed seed, suet…I also have a heated dish with water. All we get is squirrels which I don’t want. My neighbors just dump a 25 pound bag of seed on their grass and the birds go over there but they don’t come to my feeders…even when the neighbors seed is used up. I also put out bread crumbs and bits of strawberries hoping some birds that like fruit would stop by. I’ve taken down a flag thinking may be it was scaring them. Any ideas?

JAVIER

Dan asked:


I love working in my yard and have been hanging bird houses and bird feeders this year. I’ve really given no thought to particular types of birds though. Tonight I came inside because the mosquitoes were driving me crazy and it occurred to me that there is most likely some type of bird that eats mosquitoes…what are they and how do I get them to make my home their home?

LUKE