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Owl, falcon garden deterrents

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Tommoz starts with ...
Just perusing eBay and noticing there are a few plastic owl and falcons that are being sold for the garden. Some can hoot while others have glowing eyes at night. People have any luck with these?

What about reflective wind twisters? Seller says the owls don't work.
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MaryT says...
They were using falcons at Circular Quay to discourage the sea gulls but I don't think they worked 'cause I don't see them anymore.
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10th December 2012 5:04pm
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Mike says...
The cockatoos at my place roll with laughter at my plastic owl and falcon while they enjoy a fruit breakfast.I threw the plastc falcon at them once and they flew away then.
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VF says...
Sounds like those Cockatoos are mates of the Brush Turkeys around my way - deterents don't work, throw things at them, they dissappear for a short time but come back, chase them off and the minute you've turned your back they're strutting back behind you. Thinking of getting a sling shot!
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Mike says...
VF some people I work with have a devil of a time with the scrub turkeys rotary hoeing their yards.Cockatoos are very persistent and hang around in big flocks.It is amazing how quiet a whole flock is when 'doing the deed' but go on a squawkathon for the rest of the time.
The cockatoos are also still laughing about the tinsel and dics I tried hanging.They enjoyed the decor while dining.
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ivepeters says...
VF I have been using a slingshot for the last couple of years to secure my pecans. Must say that it does work. I use palm tree seeds, I don't hit them.
Its amazing how fast a half dozen can decimate the nuts while also pruning branches to reach others.
Must warn you , they are clever.
They will get to your tree earlier and earlier just to avoid you.
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amanda says...
The whole of the small orchard in our new home here is covered by a bird net...after seeing what the 28's got up to today with my tomatoes I can see why now....it's going to be a painful relationship without netting - and the smaller birds even managed to find some tears in the netting and polished off the ripe mulberries too.. :-(

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VF says...
Mike, I'm lucky (so far) with the white cockatoos in that I'm only on their flight path when they're migrating, and my fruit trees are too small yet to have caught their attention. The blacks, (yellow-tailed and glossy), hang around but stick to the casuarinas. The crows can be abit devious though.

Thanks for the tip ivepeters. My husband has informed me that he has one somewhere that he used to use to scare off the swooping plovers. Just got to find it now. BTW, how do pecans grow in Brissie? I've not considered them before as I thought it may be too humid.

Amanda, I commiserate with you- have lost entire crop of Youngberries and Loganberries (and heaps of cherry tomatoes) to the gobbling feathered fiends! They seem to have lost their appetite for bush-tucker, and have developed a champagne taste.
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BJ says...
I've posted this before, but I'll post agian. There is a flock of at least 200 white cockatoos under 1km from my house.
My best results have been achieved with sacrificial cropping. Cockatoos like to stay high in tall trees, especially when there are bird chasing ratting dogs about. My crops of choice are Passionfruit grown up an old crepe myrtle and inga sp (ice cream beans). The cockatoos go straight for these two and leave the otehrs closer to the ground alone unless they are really hungry and want to be harrassed by my shipperkes. These two crops have fruit and flowers for most of the year and minimise other crop losses. I quite enjoy sitting on the verandah watching the cockatoos jostling over passionfruit. The pigeon peas keep the king parrots happy.
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lenn says...
My cockatoos leave most fruit alone-they will,however, take apples for the seeds inside and spit out the rest. Same with passionfruit
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ivepeters says...
VF. I have a Mayan, had it 10yrs now, 8 of which in the ground. About 3m tall.
Crops well each year, get nearly a shopping bag full of nuts. Most are full others have small amount of meat in them.
Good considering I leave it to its own devices. ( except for bird watch )
Would do better with another type.
Nuts have started to form now.
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VF says...
Thanks for reply ivepeters. It sounds like they're worth growing, and I'll now seriously consider getting one - just where to plant, am running out of room?
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