any recommendation ?

[frostedeyes]

this is sooo out of the orchid topic... but here i am asking for help. im looking for a bird repellant under 50 dollars! OUCH! i have this problem... everytime i see spike the next day its gone... coz its the birds that are eating my buds... so dat sucks right? no matter how much i spend on my orchids i wont be able to see their beauty.. in full potential. so is there any product that you can tell me? please do.. thanks!

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oh and btw... im looking for this sort of sonar box thing for birds uhmm a more specific product... the brand and the code... my floor are in the penthouse is around 150 square meter

[Cym Ladye]

I do not think birds are your problem.

[Rowangreen]

You could protect them with netting, or by putting in sticks and tying thread in positions to stop the birds landing.

[orchids3]

A couple of winters ago I found a lot of my new seedling eaten down to a nub. It is in a shade house so I doubted the culprit was birds - but more like a Mouse or Rat. I tried to trap the thing but this failed so resorted to Rat poison. It wasnt a rat it was a opposum. I found it a short time later - the rat poison did the trick. The odd thing was that it only liked one paticular type seedling - not all of them.

[orchidsarefun]

cut into long strips and tied so that they dangle and catch the light work. We used to use them in our apricot tree to stop birds.

[frostedeyes]

ahh its the bird for real i placed them diffrent places highs and lows ant its the bird! lol netting is a bit impractical... istill prefer the ultrasonic thng please? i tryied cds it wont work.

[pedidiva]

look up the scientific lit for the ultrasonic bird thing. The studuies show that they don't work for rodents. Birds habituate quickly to noise.

I wonder if there is a chemical repellant.

[Rowangreen]

Right, you options are keep the birds off using a barrier such as netting (as I said earlier). If you have a balcony that's not that hard. If you have a garden, then you just need to put some poles up to hang it off. A criss-crossing of small threads can also help, as the birds can't fly through them and won't land on something clearly too fine to hold their weight.

Or scare them off, in which case you'll probably have to keep changing the scarer, as the birds will get used to it. So your ultrasonic thingy might last a few days before you need something else.

Poison would be totally iresponsible to use in this situation (and in most cases involving rodents), as you have no control of where the dead animal is going to end up and what other animals and pets might be killed by eating the dead body. Killing or trapping wild birds may well be ilegal where you live as well. And killing any wild animal only leaves space for another to move in, so is not the long-term one time solution you are looking for.

[orchids3]

We put plastic Owls in Aircraft hangars. Nothing like a birds nest in your engine intake. It works for a while the a big plastic snake - switch them back and forth. I see these things in garden catalogs from time to time. Birds can be persistant.