2 Questions

[MY PUPPY]

1 Can you do anything to keep birds from eating the grubs
and tearing up the lawns.2 What can you do to stop birds from
eating flowers or pears from a pear tree.Thank you!

[mariner]

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Insecticide!

[bigT]

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get a fake bird of prey {but a shotgun would work to}lol!!!

[bobkessler]

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Bird control is tricky. I wouldn't try it myself unless I was experienced. Once a major fast food chain hired us to control pigeons around their outside tables where they were a real nuisance and would crap all over the tables. Turns out pigeon poop carries a bunch of diseases and is considered a health hazard. So we felt justified applying a common bird control product, Avitrol. Although the label said only sick birds may die, the others would vacate the area due to "stress". At first nothing seemed to happen. I mean almost a week went by and the birds ate that stuff up like candy with no apparent effects. Then one day the manager called me and told me to get right over there. It was some scene. the pigeons were acting like they were drunk or something. Flying in loops and circles, backwards, upside down, into the windows etc. It was kind of like that Alfred Hitch**** movie. A lot of them were just walking around on the ground and it was like they forgot how to fly or something. A few also were dead just like the label said. Anyway somebody called the Audubon Society and made a complaint that somebody was poisoning the birds. The fast food place took a lot of bad publicity and heat over the whole thing even though nobody did anything illegal or wrong. To this day I'm afraid of pigeon poop because I never knew how nasty it is. By the way, just like magic the pigeons were just gone one day. The whole thing took about 10 days or so. Evidently the Avitrol upsets their ultra-sensitive equilibrium, so they temporarily lose their sense of balance, which they associate with the area so......they leave. It was something!

[spirkn]

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haha, great story