How do I stop crows nicking my plums?!
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I have a small (about 14 feet tall) plum tree. For 9 years we got fruit off it without any problems, but last year in the space of a couple of weeks and just before the fruit fully ripened, birds stripped the tree. It has happening again this year and I finally saw the culprit - a crow. How do I stop this since netting a whole tree is hardly practical?
18 Jul, 2009
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An AKA 47! :0)
18 Jul, 2009
There's always that.....lol
18 Jul, 2009
Making a scarecrow could be fun for you.
18 Jul, 2009
cds, tin foil
my neighbour has tinfoil in strips hanging all round their garden
x x x
18 Jul, 2009
Would you like to borrow my .22?
18 Jul, 2009
although fluff and Bbb's answers onthe face of it appear a practical and reasonable solution you may well stick the occasional bullet into one of your plums thus rendering it uneatable,its more than likely to happen in fluffs choice Aka's being fully automatic
19 Jul, 2009
:-)
19 Jul, 2009
and the neighbours may complain
19 Jul, 2009
hehehe
x x x
19 Jul, 2009
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