OT: Effective method to keep birds away?

it's funny they don't bother to hit my work van or my old pickup truck or even my wife's Camry. But they sure do a job on my Mustang

 

When I was in Florida one of the restaurants used fishing line to keep the birds off there patio area.

 

Something sticky where they perch. A product called tangle foot used to be available in an aerosol can.
Found this on Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/Tanglefoot-T...&qid=1559618544&s=gateway&sr=8-21-spons&psc=1

 

Thanks for all the input gents. Seems like there isnt any one solution thats clear cut. I'll start trying some of the suggestions here and see if I can find something that works for my situation.

 

That will get you put right in jail.

 

I see those balloons with big eyes in fields all the time. I heard they really work. Move with the wind.
https://www.lowes.com/pd/scare-eye-...MItsSD4qzQ4gIVilMNCh1wTA6DEAUYASABEgKh4PD_BwE

 

Works on kids too.

 

This picture doesn't do it justice, but this is my shop foreman's truck. When I got to work and saw it at 6:30 a.m., I asked him how many elephants gave each other HJs all over it. Turns out a crane flew in front of him going down the highway and let this load loose. He drove to a gas station without cleaning his windshield and had his head hanging out the side glass because he's the type of guy that would do that to get a funny pic. It literally covered the whole truck.

 

Shawn, try this. Its bound to work.

 

Hmmm... I've filled out countless 4473's and a number of form 4's and form 1's, wonder what I have to submit to the feds to get a few surface to air missile launchers....

 

I have this small strawberry patch in my front yard. The birds were snatching every almost ripe berry before I could get to it.

I strung up some fishing line and hung a bunch of old CD's around the patch.
I guess the birds don't like their reflection or they don't like the rapid movement of the CD's in the wind. It worked great against the birds, not so much for the squirrels.

Maybe it was the CD's or maybe it was Brokeback Mountain but it worked!

 

Hang pie tins from strings. The movement is like a scarecrow, the birds do not like it.

 

When I kept my airplane at Mansfield, MA one guy put a fake owl on the tail of his Cherokee. I once saw a swallow sitting on it.

 

That's the importance of moving it. If left in one place Birds will know that its not real.

Quote from a website on deploying fake owls.

Plastic owls are more effective deterring some species of birds than others. The Linfield College study found that the owl was far more effective against the black-capped chickadee than it was against the red-breasted nuthatch.

Anyone committed to deterring birds with a plastic owl can try a few tricks to make the owl more effective:

• Place the owl in a tree or some other natural setting. Owls don't like to be seen, so the sight of one perched on a ledge or rooftop is a dead giveaway.
  
• Change the owl's position every few days. An owl that stays in the same place for weeks on end is another dead giveaway.
  
• Hang old CDs or ribbons from tree branches or eaves to add to the birds' confusion.
  
• Deploy an inexpensive sound device that makes a loud sound at random intervals to further confuse the birds.

In the case of pigeons, some kind of physical barrier, such as pigeon spikes, are necessary to prevent pigeons from roosting and doing their dirty work.

 

Man, Mike, I've got to tell you: For the last couple days at work whenever I'm having a bad moment, I've come back and watched that play over and over and over and it makes me laugh every time......his smirk at the end is priceless.

 

I'm glad you enjoy that. It makes me chuckle every time too.

 

shiny mylar strips that flash in the breeze is what farmer types in Calunicornia use to warn off birds