How do I keep birds from eating my peaches and grapes from my fruit trees?

Question

Here in El Paso, fruit trees do very well but the birds get to the fruits before the people. I get great plums, peaches and grapes as well as tomatoes and vegetable with no chemicals or commercial fertilizers. The birds tend to eat 80% of my crops and I would like to deter them without poisons or deadly measures.

Answer 1

Go to a pool store and get some rubber snakes to put around. It will scare the birds off.

Answer 2

Hang strips of aluminum foil.  That has worked great in our fruit trees.

Answer 3

realistic model owl.

It works around the restaurants and other places that Ive seen them used in.

Answer 4

i want to know that too

Answer 5

STICK A FAKE OWL IN THE YARD WITH MOTION SENCOR.

Answer 6

Check the seed catalogs, they have a variety of methods.  I found the only thing that works for me is to grow enough to share with the wildlife.  I did give up on grapes though as the raccoons will eat the whole crop in one night.

Answer 7

Either  get  rolls  of  burlap  from  like  the  Home Depot  or

Get   volley  ball /  bad mitten  nets  from  garage  sales .

Loop  over  and  around  the  fruit .

enjoy

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