Bird Hawk Flying Kite with Pole Crops Farm Protector Bird Scarer Flying Kite with 4m Pole-Style A

Works great to keep the geese away!!! Perfect if you live on the lake, and have geese that visit, and make a mess of your lawn! The geese hate it!This company was great to work with, delivered quickly, easy to set up!! I have shared this with friends, and family. Great product!Thank you so much!

Like this bird. It flies very high in the wind. Have had to cut limps several times as when air bound it has a large diameter it covers. Bought it to keep hawks away, think it helps. At any rate intersting to see it airbound. Strudy, held up last season.

I purchased this to keep the blue jays out of my home orchard and vineyard. This year I put up this hawk kite in my orchard when my cherries were ripening. So far, I have lost maybe a dozen cherries from two trees. The jays sit up on the power lines nearby and look disappointed. I have just ordered another bird kite to put near my hazelnut and walnut trees, since the first kite will need to stay in the orchard to protect other fruits ripening there.I had to trouble shoot it for a few days to get it to work effectively in all kinds of wind and in still air. Where I live it is generally calm in the mornings, but then can get very windy in the afternoons. So far, the kite, pole, and string are holding up.I found that getting it up high into the air allowed it to appear to be flying, even if it was just hanging from the pole in still air, and to not get hung up in the trees when it did get blown around (but to not contact the power lines just outside my fence).This is how I finally mounted it, and now have it working perfectly: I pounded a 5' long metal ½” conduit pipe into the ground so that 3' is above ground. Over that I slid a 10' long ¾” schedule 40 PVC pipe. The ground stake, to which the kite’s rod is attached, fits securely in the ¾” PVC. The ¾” PVC was too flexible, allowing the kite to dip into the tree tops and get caught, so I slipped a 6' long section of 1 ¼” PVC over the ¾” PVC to make it more rigid near the bottom. These are all set vertically, but the ¾” PVC is flexible near the top, as is the rod to which the kite is attached, and it all bends in the wind, and therefore the string does not get wrapped around the rod. The whole contraption raises the kite 23' into the air. I adjusted the length of the string so that it is about 5' long, short enough to keep it out of the trees and away from the power lines, but long enough to keep the kite "flying" over the trees in no wind.At first, I planned to take the kite down every few days, so the jays didn't habituate to it, but they returned as soon as I moved it, even though I put a scarecrow out there. I put the kite back and have not moved it in several weeks, and it is still working.I reduced my former 5 star review to 4 stars because the kite is fading significantly after 6 weeks of use. And also because the string provided becomes brittle in sunlight and breaks (it lasted about two months).UPDATE after 2 seasons of use: I purchased a second kite for use over my filbert and walnut trees. I had a biblical infestation of jays last year (possibly due to the commercial filbert grower nearby installing propane cannons to chase them away). Because the nuts were being eaten so early before ripening (still green), I left the kites up continuously for two months. The jays became habituated to the kites and stripped my trees clean before the nuts ripened.I am using both kites again this year. I put one up over my cherry trees and swapped it out for two scarecrows (which I made scarier by attaching upraised arms bearing pom-poms of flash tape), which worked well. I swapped them every few days. Now a kite is over my blueberry patch, which, because I have several varieties, ripen over a 10 week period. I periodically swap out the kite with the scarecrows and a dummy hawk on a post, and the jays seem to have left for the season.I am purchasing a kite-only without the pole to keep on standby. Both kites have faded significantly and one parked in a blackberry patch and was shredded when I pulled it out (still flies, just is deteriorating faster). It's cheaper than buying organic fruit.

These work great. Very easy to set up. We have high winds here and they are durable in the winds. Before I got this, my chickens were getting attacked or taken. I've got three flying around my 5 acres.

The pole fell into 3 pieces and cannot be extended to be able to attach the kite. Parts don't match inadequate instructions or assembly videos. I didn't try to assemble this until 2 days after the return window. A complete loss. More Chinese crap.

It’s a great deterrent for barn swallows. Does what it’s supposed to do. But I have a warning: I don’t know what the black pole is made of, but it leaves splinters in your hands!

The wind has to blow quite hard for it to fly. The print is only on the bottom side so it would likely not deter a flying predator. It doesn't seem properly balanced. I purchased this for predator control by my chickens. It's not obvious unless there's a strong wind. It was easy to assemble though. I wouldn't buy another one but it may help at times. There's no way to know.

We purchased this crow kite to ward off hawks from attacking our chickens. Haven’t lost a chicken since installing it.