Cherry berries ripening in the garden are eagerly watched not only by people, but also by feathered gourmets. How to protect cherries from birds, protect the harvest and health of trees in household plots? These questions concern many summer residents and owners of rural farmsteads.
Cultural plantings of fruit and berry plants for many, especially flocking birds, become a favorite feeder in the warm season. However, the visits of birds are not always a joy for a summer resident. It's great when a flock helps to cope with insect pests. And it is a completely different matter - birds seeking to profit from garden strawberries, shadberry, honeysuckle and, of course, cherries.
Feathered enemies of sweet cherry: who are they and why are they dangerous?
Most often, sparrows and tits, waxwings and jays “graze” on fruit trees and shrubs. Ripening earlier than other stone fruits, starlings are very attracted.
What is the harm caused by birds, and how to protect the cherry from birds, be it starlings or their other winged relatives? In addition to the fact that a flock in a matter of hours practically cleans the branches from ripe berries, birds:
- they break young growth and bouquet news, on which next year's harvest should appear;
- leave damaged fruits that attract insects and pathogens.
How larger than a bird and the more numerous the flock, the more tangible the damage. But birds are not a natural disaster! Even at low cost or even with home remedies, you can provide excellent bird protection for cherries.
Measures aimed at saving crops fall into two categories. Some methods protect the entire tree and prevent birds from getting close to the cherished berries. Other events are designed to scare away winged gourmets.
How to scare birds away from cherries?
Birds in a flock behave much more boldly than loners. And yet, not even the bravest starling will be able to start a meal if he is distracted by annoying sounds, bright lights, or the uninterrupted flashing of shiny objects.
It is these techniques that are used to scare away starlings from cherries, both in single plantings of fruit trees and in large gardens. The simplest and most affordable options are:
- rustling or rustling objects hung in the crown, for example, household bags, patches of packaging mica or films;
- freely fixed, movable objects made of reflective, shiny, bright materials, for example, fragments of New Year's tinsel, unnecessary computer disks, voluminous wads of food foil hung between branches;
- home-made turntables and rattles, made according to the principle of children's toys, but having a persistent frightening effect on birds.
These methods are good because they help both to protect cherries from starlings and to refuse additional expenses for expensive devices and fixtures.
However, experienced gardeners know that birds eventually adapt to the most ingenious ways to scare away, so for greater effect, it is better to combine several techniques and from time to time change the location of objects that scare birds.
How to protect cherries from starlings with shelters?
Another common method of protection is a shelter for the crown, which would not interfere with the penetration of the sun, air and moisture, but at the same time prevent birds from landing on branches with juicy berries.
How to protect cherries from birds with this method? Until recently, such an event was hardly feasible, but today trade offers a lot of interesting and fairly affordable options:
- Low-density non-woven material, for example, used to cover growing crops, does not interfere with plant respiration, completely passes rain and irrigation moisture and sunlight. A light canvas will not damage the branches, but it will turn into a reliable bird protection for sweet cherries with a small compact crown.
- On larger trees, it is convenient to use special large-mesh plastic nets. The crown under such a cover is not damaged, and birds, even sitting on a tree, cannot penetrate deep into the branches to where the sweetest berries hang. In addition, the green mesh is almost invisible from the outside and does not spoil the view of the garden.
Other ways to protect cherries from birds
Summer residents who trust more than homemade homemade products, but innovative methods of plant protection, can purchase ultrasonic electronic devices to scare away birds.
Devices placed in the garden emit vibrations that are inaudible to humans, which birds perceive as unambiguous alarm signals. This allows you to scare away birds from cherries, both in small summer cottages and in mass plantings. The range depends on the power and other specifications device.
In some cases, gardeners use odorous vegetable decoctions based on garlic, hot peppers, citrus zest and other crops with a sharp taste and aroma for birds. The method cannot be called reliable, since the first rain washes away the protection, and in dry weather, natural essential oils quickly dissipate.
A detailed video on how to protect cherries from birds will introduce the gardener to all the options available. The available material will help you choose the most effective and at the same time available method. And the berry saved from feathered gourmets will surely please the summer resident and his family members.
One of the ways to deal with a bird on a cherry - video
In summer, birds fly into the gardens, they not only collect insect larvae. worms and caterpillars. Summer residents are faced with the problem of feathered thieves who are not averse to eating ripe berries, fruits and pome fruits.
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There are several ways to deal with bird invasion.
Install a "scarecrow" on the garden plot.
For the first time, this will work and starlings, sparrows, other birds will be afraid, and leave the trees alone for a while.
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But over time, they get used to the motionless guard and begin to eat the fruits.
Only the grid gives a full guarantee
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Fighting feathered gourmets is not easy: they are inventive and resourceful.
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Bird discs
The next method is based on the fright of birds, their fear of sparkling and shiny objects. You will need a high pole - higher than a tree. At the end of the pole, hang computer disks on a thin string.
You can make a turntable from computer disks. They spin in the wind and shine in the sun.
You can create crafts from disks
They will decorate your site, and you will combine useful and beautiful!
Birds are frightened by an incomprehensible object and do not even come close to this area.
Some summer residents save the harvest of cherries and cherries with the help of New Year's rain.
They hang it on the branches of a fruit tree - there is always some kind of breeze, this rain gleams all the time.
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The same role is played by children's turntables made of shiny materials.
Pull a rope over the bed with strawberries, and tie strips of foil on it, or rain - it will flutter in the wind and scare away the birds. Simple and not expensive.
You can add objects that make a sound to sparkles
(tin cans made of thin tin).
9:1498They are tied to a tree garden plot. Under the influence of the wind, foil and rain flutter and create a sparkling effect, and from the cans a rattling sound that frightens the birds.
You can wrap tree branches with foil and other reflective objects.
When hit by light and the influence of wind, the foil reflects light and causes fright in birds. In this way, they do not touch the fruits of the trees in the garden.
fasten shiny objects it is possible with all improvised means located in the house: insulating tape, laces, rope.
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An excellent spinner is obtained from a plastic bottle in which the blades are cut.
She shines and roars in the wind. Put it on a stake or on a branch.
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Another method: you can save the crop from birds with the help of ordinary threads!
Try regular #10 threads. White or black threads make the birds panic. The nature of this phenomenon is unknown, but it is assumed that the stretched threads are similar to snares, so birds shy away from them.
Scientists conducted the following experiment: Threads were stretched crosswise over the nest of crows. The most effective colors were white and black. Thread size No. 10. The crows could not return to the nests where such threads were stretched.And for some reason they did not pay attention to the twine of the birds.
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Fake owls and helium balloons can be a good help in the fight against birds.
There is another way - cut the onion and hang between the branches of cherries or sweet cherries.
One of the summer residents claims that birds cannot stand the smell of onions.
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Another way from a gardener: fasten an old fur hat on the upper branches
She reminds the birds of a cat.
Use of newspapers
It's another one good way to get rid of the birds, wrap the plants so that the newspaper rustles in the wind. This is a cheap and environmentally friendly option.
16:1070 16:1080Have a great harvest!
16:1125 16:1135The sowing campaign on our hundred square meters has died down (June). The last radish is being eaten.
Saturday shish kebab dressed up in dill and lettuce brands.
Almost forgotten is such a familiar application to the process of making ridges, like sciatica. And the first berries are poured ...
The honeysuckle fruit changes the color scheme of its makeup from green to inky purple. Strawberries are not far behind, they are already flaunting white, and soon red barrels. Alas! We are not the only ones waiting for the first gifts of summer...
Great morning! Dry, sunshine.
“Surely the honeysuckle is ripe…” - we think with the manner of coffee. Bucket in hand - and to the bushes. Yes, mature. And flew away ... in the stomachs of thrushes.
Well, what do you say! .. Do not sit with the air all daylight hours, waiting for feathered intruders. Yes, sorry for them.
bird fighting
Classic Scarecrows Are Not Particularly Effective in the fight for the harvest with the birds.
The birds quickly get used to the clumsy motionless incarnation of the indignant gardener and stop paying attention to him.
It works better - a cat - from an old sock stuffed with sawdust, with bright button eyes sewn on.
Such a “Watchman” can be placed under a bush or placed in a fork in the branches. A real cat is certainly more effective, but it is difficult to agree with him on the vigilant protection of your crop.
The simplest thing is to cover the bushes with a special bird net or at least a tulle curtain that has served its time. The main condition: such an awning should not have holes and its edges should be well pressed to the ground. Otherwise, the birds under such a shelter will enter like in the doors of the dining room and will feast unnoticed by you or the cats.
Works well and scares away birds home-made "Argus" from a large one-color inflatable ball, on which contrasting eyes are glued along the "equator".
Pay attention to their color: there should be a combination of red, yellow, white and black. These colors are common to the eyes of predators, and birds have excellent color vision.
You can put such a watchman in a fork of branches, or better, hang it on a branch on a thread.
Then this big-eyed head, under the influence of the breeze, will spin and look out for a bird to eat!
It is quite simple to hang half-meter strips of foil on the branches. They shine, rustle, not badly scare away winged freeloaders.
My neighbor, a former Afghan, reached one of the heights in the thankless business of bird scaring. He puts on the birds ... streamers!
Have you already imagined the side of a dusty road in Kandahar, a crater from a landmine and a burning armored personnel carrier? It's not all that dramatic. But the principle is the same.
A mousetrap-crusher works as a landmine, and a ball of foam plastic, painted in bright color, acts as a striking element (of a purely psychological effect).
In a state of waiting, he lies on the cocked bow of the crusher, and the crusher is securely fastened to the ground with U-shaped metal brackets.
How all this works can be seen from the figure. A well tuned and lubricated system is extremely effective in planting strawberries, only it needs to be periodically recharged. Infrequently.
Where the balls fly with a click, thrushes no longer visit after one or two experiments.
The only "bird" morally affected by the device. - a neighbor's mother-in-law who decided to weed the berries without being warned.
And if in your strawberry ridge you see a hedgehog or a toad looking longingly at a berry, be happy! The toad does not look at the berry, but at the slug that bursts it. And the hedgehog does not collect berries for jam, but sniffs out mollusks and beetles!
© S. Tarasov, St. Petersburg. Author's drawings
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- Use of special devices (ultrasound, irrigation with water, bright flashes);
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