Fake Owl scares away birds

      Birds start nesting in our rafters every spring. For three consecutive years I was able to convince my husband to leave them alone, but not this year. Hubby just repainted our deck and he didn't want the birds to poop in our deck and dropped and left the grass that they used for nesting. So what hubby did was that he cleaned our rafters with all the nests after the young birds were able to fly. In order to drive them away without hurting them, hubby did a lot of research. One way he tried was to put a broom in an area where the birds love to nest. Unfortunately this trick was working for only a day.  Finally, he was able to find another way which most people who have decks had been doing every spring, put a fake Owl in their deck and garden to drive away pests and birds. The trick of putting this fake owl is to move it often from one place to the other. You can hang it by a string from a tree or under the roof-line of your house, mount on a pole and place it where your pest problem is located or you can fill it with sand and put on guard on your patio or among the rows of your garden. 

      So far no more birds hanging around in our deck since we hang the fake owl. Hubby is happy that the fake owl works. Sadly I miss the birds chirping. But hubby told me that he will buy a bird house one of this day and put it in our garden. That makes me smile....the birds will be having their house where they can build their nests.