Paul and I are working on the Animal Care badge for the
PEP system. We're detailing out some options for people to use when attempting to mitigate crop eating birds. Here's our list, can you add some more ideas???
Scarecrow
Reflectors or wind spinners
Flags or banners
Distract birds away from other crops + animal
feed by planting mulberries and the like
- 100 shrubs/trees total
- 60+ mulberries
- Staggered fruiting time to distract for as long as possible
Select plant cultivars that hide the bounty from the birds
- 6 examples
Perches for raptors
Paint small rocks to look like strawberries
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