How to protect berries from birds?

[GreenGardenMom]

Last year, I grew some raspberry and strawberry. Birds kept coming to eat them. So I got nothing. Well, I plant for fun instead of eating. But it still annoys me. How can you protect them from birds while leaving them outside in air?

 

[silkiechicken]

I'm pretty sure there is a bird netting that can be thrown over plants so birds can't get to the goods, but I've never used it before. In the case of strawberries, slugs is what get's them all here.

 

[AmyRey]

I am hoping that my scarecats will deter most of the attacks on my berries.

 

[thistlebloom]

Bird netting works here, although I think it's a pain to pick under. You could get a plastic owl and mount it on a post ( a t-post works well for this, just don't drive it into the ground too far ) and move it periodically. They also sell inflatable snakes you can drape around to scare the birds. There's a place in town that sells a bird (predatory type ) that works like a kite and sails around about 10' or so off the ground to scare little birds away.

 

[Ariel301]

We must have especially bad birds here. They just perch on those owls, and they rip holes in the bird netting with their beaks and climb through. As if that wasn't enough, the chipmunks chew through chicken wire and get into the vegetables.

 

[thistlebloom]

We must have especially bad birds here. They just perch on those owls, and they rip holes in the bird netting with their beaks and climb through. As if that wasn't enough, the chipmunks chew through chicken wire and get into the vegetables.

Yikes! That would put me in combat mode!
I'm thinking chicken wire hung on insulators and electrified...maybe one of those "scarecrow"impulse sprinklers for the birds, a chair and a 22.... oh! sorry! did I say that out loud?

 

[vfem]

Wow... sounds like my evil mocking birds. They just attack everything, and I even mean the CAT!

But I would suggest bird netting is a good deterant... or grow 10x more so you can get a taste! hahaha

 

[hoodat]

Wow... sounds like my evil mocking birds. They just attack everything, and I even mean the CAT!

But I would suggest bird netting is a good deterant... or grow 10x more so you can get a taste! hahaha

Cat must be a dirty word for mockingbirds. Did you ever notice that when you annoy a mocking bird it sounds like it's yelling,"Cat", at you?

 

[GreenGardenMom]

I'm pretty sure there is a bird netting that can be thrown over plants so birds can't get to the goods, but I've never used it before. In the case of strawberries, slugs is what get's them all here.

Oh, I don't have many berries, only a couple of pots. I use beautiful strawberry jars and they are more like decorations. It won't look good if I put bird netting on it.

 

[momofdrew]

you could string a few old CD's on fishing line so they catch the wind... that is a good scarecrow around here...