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Scared a woodpecker who was pecking at our wood-sided house. It works better when suspended and can move in the wind, as birds seem to learn it's a decoy if it's mounted and doesn't move. Be sure not to leave the decoy out in a storm or it could become a projectile and hit someone or a window. Amazon, however, gets 0 stars and an F- for the packaging. The decoy was packed in an enormous, wasteful, but too thin, cardboard box that was crushed and mangled in shipping. There were at least 100 plastic air pillows in the box that did little to protect the decoy or the box itself. The decoy was a bit banged up and scratched, but since it's for outdoor use, we decided to keep rather than return it. Despite Amazon's ubiquitous "returns are no problem" allegations, if one does return defective items to Amazon, one will receive a nasty rude email threatening to cancel one's service -- in my case a $99 Prime membership. Along with increasing prices of late, and rude customer service, Amazon's packaging is wasteful and insufficient to protect all goods.

We had birds nesting under an overhang dropping their poo on our bbq grill, our patio and the dog's kennel including the dog's food n water bowls. They were dive bombing our vehicles AND the birds were entering our garage when the big door was up or the small door was open thereby becoming trapped hence succumbing to their death after head butting the glass window too many times in their efforts to escape. I bought a couple of these owls, a couple of the hawks as well as several snake replicas including a very realistic cottonmouth and rattlesnake. Together these have done the trick! The owls and hawks are hanging by durable fishing wire in several strategic places. They are hanging in the areas we want to deter birds and where a breeze can gently spin these replicas to add realism. As these bird replicas are all placed by different doors and different overhangs I know each of them are indeed responsible for their area being free of poo! The snakes are intertwined in chain link and the larger replica snakes are out front along the garage wall on each side of the large garage door, so are "guarding" different areas. The birds now stay away from our garage, patio and dog kennel. Since literally the week after I placed our replica critters I have not found *any* bird poo on our patio, our bbq grill nor in the dog's bowls. No more birds in our garage, either! Wow, such an easy quick fix! I happen to collect owl statues, simple statues did NOT work. It took these life-like replicas to deter the persistent birds. Be sure to hand these birds by fishing wire or other durable means as cotton twine quickly degraded allowing our high drive dogs to have a new play toy. Despite getting somewhat crushed and chewed, this life-like replica is still performing as intended.

I bought this to keep birds from pooping all over my pool deck and in the pool. I have a table in the pool where the birds where the birds like to sit and drink. I put the decoy on the table and now birds will not land on or near it. I have actually seen birds fly toward the table and then change directions when they see the decoy. I have to admit that I was skeptical about this at first, but so far it is working great. The only reason I did not give it five stars is because it only works in a small area, let's call it the bird-free area. The bird-free area at my house only extends about 10 feet from the decoy. For me, this works great as I only had a small area that birds liked to frequent. It does not, however, keep birds away from the nearby patio. If you want to cover a large area, you will probably need two or three of these. As for me, I'm enjoying a poop-free pool this summer.

This was my fifth in an increasingly costly string of attempts to dissuade a couple of flickers attempting to build a nest in my siding. Perhaps I have some persistent pests. The first day I put this out in the yard, I could hear a noticeable increase in bird chatter. That's the only result I've seen from this. Squirrels don't mind, rabbits don't mind, flickers definitely don't mind. Seems the only animals that took notice were a couple of resident hawks that circle and screech when I move it around the yard. The Bird-X TAPE-25 Irri-Tape Bird Repellent Ribbon seems to be working much better against the flickers - although it does have a certain WT look to it.

So for the past four years I had been climbing 24' up twice a year to patch holes in the side of our house where birds kept pecking away to build a nest in my attic. I decided to dig in and find a solution. I went online and found Bird B Gone. Though I have seen many boats on slips that have an owl, hawk or some other deterrent that sea gulls just ignore (and actually relieve themselves on the decoys) I decided this might be the trick. I mounted my BB Gone hawk about 20' up near the main area where the birds like to peck. After carefully getting down off the ladder, I came inside to get a glass of water and then a few minutes later I walked out to see my handywork. As I came around the back of the house, no more than a foot above the hawk, a tit-mouse was busily pecking away! Though a stationary decoy such as Bird B Gone will NOT deter birds in any way, it makes a nice looking addition on the back of my house. I highly recommend it for those who may be looking for a cool looking ornament to mount on the side of your house. It provides plenty of chuckles for the birds, who must think I'm a nerd! It was worth the $10 I paid for it for chuckle value alone! :)

I like to look at protecting my chickens in layers of protection. A whole flock of fake owls and fake hawks is one of the layers. I added Dollar Tree silver and red pom-poms with zipties for the wings to give movement and shininess. Wild birds don't like shiny things. Other layers is a good fence, a good guard dog, flashing red lights with a fake picture (like a mask) of my dog's face behind it. All this hopefully causes confusion and fear so that they don't want to come into my yard. It does help to keep the hawks away and 80% of the other birds away. Maybe if I don't put out chicken scratch and keep the chickens locked up it might get rid of the other 20% of the birds. Oh well. update: I have one of the hawks or owls on a stake inside the chicken run. It is so much fun to watch the wild birds come and and in seconds get out of there as fast as they can fly.

I have had it sitting on the front porch rail for weeks now, and the flock of black birds stopping by to devour the cats' food (a couple of times a day) haven't dared to risk crossing paths with the hawk! I honestly didn't think this would work, but was desperate for something to prevent a flock of some 20-30 black birds snatching the food I leave for the 8 feral cats in my neighborhood and leaving their droppings all over my porch. I can't believe this has worked! I bought a 5 lb bag of aquarium gravel to put inside the hawk (it is very light weight so you have to add something to keep it from blowing away) and that has so far worked quite well. It sits on my porch railing (an old bungalow, big front porch) and I just saw it through my security camera with my own eyes: the flock of birds gathered in the tree by the street, but they left within seconds instead of coming to the porch to steal the cats' food! It's been nearly a month and there hasn't been a single day when I thought the hawk has failed to work. UPDATE: The end of January the birds were back, so it stopped working, but it did a good job for awhile.

At first it was seemed to be working keeping the birds away but after just a couple of days I think the birds caught on that it’s not real. I had brought two. One for the front and back. It didn’t matter if I moved them. My car still got torpedoed with bird crap. But also doesn’t help when you have neighbors that feed the birds