Silver Bird Scaring Reflective Tape, Holographic Ribbon, Ideal for Garden, Patio, Field and Fence - 1'' x 500 Ft (Silver)

I tied the scare tape around the rafters of the roof over our deck at home and at our lake house. I spaced it every 12" to 18" and let it dangle down around 2" to 6" below the knot that is flush with the bottom of the rafter. 2" closest to the front edge of the roof and longer toward the back so it can't as readily be as seen or as obvious from the ground or lake. It is so thin, it slips easily between the metal roofing and the rafters. I've watched the bird behavior and they will start to fly in to perch in some of the spans and other locations where they are able. When they see the scare tape, they will quickly turn and fly to a nearby tree instead. This is amazing! Also, with it tied up and out of the weather and sunlight, it doesn't appear to be degrading in the least even though it was hung early in the summer. I fully expect the tape to be intact next year. At the lake house, we've had an especially hard time with birds. They like to come in and perch where they can and poop all over the deck. The railing and decking have stayed covered in the past. This year the deck has been nearly completely poop free since hanging the scare tape. Of course there is an occasional dropping, but that is tolerable and SO MUCH better than in past years! The railing is staying clear as well with all of the reflective movement above. Even the ceiling fans and deck furniture are poop free! The tape is silent as well. We don't hear it moving in the wind. And, it is tied up so high and out of the way, it isn't too unsightly. I would rather have the tape than the poop anyway though! I highly recommend scare tape. The only issue I've had with it is at the lake house I tied a couple of strands near a motion light and it will trigger the light when windy. I need to take those two strands down but just haven't yet. I keep forgetting. For the price and the minor effort to hang it, this is the most amazing bird repellent I've tried to date.

I tried everything to prevent bird strikes. The plastic owl. Bird silhouette stickers, sheets, towels. This stuff really works just hang a long piece ABOVE where you want to prevent the birds from nesting or hitting the window.

Short delivery as birds alearted me to need. So some 1/4" rope strung over the fenced Blueberry patch. Pretty tough product knotted one time to the rope. Also draped strips directly to bush. Native three Robin families were not at all bothered. 7:00 am. Tearing up strips, three papa Robin's shopping and like dog fighters weave into the plants over my sholder. However, after out loud laughter heard only by the birds as they foiled my efforts. Only fair to say that it appears now after the season has passed that only a few sparrows or Chickadees strayed in, no starling hoard birdstrike. I have dismantled and stored temporarily to place at the 70' vinyard row about ( now) Sept. 6, I should be getting the ribbon up. This next year will likely place proper enclosure netting over blueberries. Here is techniquue for orchard row, picture #3.

For decades flocks ravens have periodically colonized the big (very big) Plane tree on my neighbor’s property, directly across from the second floor terrace on my home. LOTS OF THEM. A hundred, easy. They’re extremely loud and dirty and they attack my picture windows. It was like a Hitchcock movie around here, intermittently, for years. No, really… When I say attack, I mean break, and ONLY on that side of the house, and only at those two big terrace windows. They fly at, and attack, their own reflections in the glass in a sort of frenzy. I’ve had to replace two very large broken windows. We even tried taping blankets or tarps over the windows while they were there. It doesn’t help. They dive bombed the gardeners and pets. Hyper territorial. Really aggressive. Nothing moves them! They are afraid of nothing. I’ve tried everything short of physically harming them. Yelling and arm waving produces no result other than a quick flinch and a dirty look from the ones sitting in the tree. These things are stubborn and obsessed. Animal control and pest control have no suggestions except that animal control sent me a warning about bird poo on my terrace. Thanks, that was helpful. This went on periodically for years. Then, on impulse, one day I ordered a roll of this tape, with no illusions that it would work, but you never know…. So, I tied about five, six foot lengths of it, spaced about 6” apart, toward the top portion of a 6’ bamboo garden stake. OK, again, I had no illusions that this would work, NOTHING WORKS, but at that point I would have tried anything legal. I took my stick, braced myself, threw open the French doors, and dashed out waving the stick around like a madwoman, yelling “AAAAAAAAUGH!!!” …and the most astonishing thing happened. They all EXPLODED into the air at once, it was loud, and I could feel the air concussion from the ones that had taken off from the terrace. They quickly organized, turned, and took off for the horizon, yelling their heads off. These are not small birds, it was a shock! Geeze!!! I stood there with my eyes bugging out and mouth hanging open and waited for them to double back. They didn’t! They made a bee line for the horizon and kept going East. And they didn’t COME back either! That was three years ago, they never came back! I can’t believe it! We had been trying to get rid of these things for a decade at least and this tape sent them into a blind panic in one second and they never came back!!!!! Whaaaat??? I kept checking for days, not one of them ever returned. 😮 It’s STILL difficult to believe that that happened, what a shock! BUY THE TAPE… I wonder what they thought it was?

Tired of the birds pooping around the cement that surrounds my pool in the spring. Put this up all around the pool, last summer was completely poop free. VERY happy.

This is NOT tape! As in, no Adhesive.

Blackbirds pecking on our lemon tree is ruining the fruit. I tried the tape, and it seemed to work for a day or two. But alas, the birds are still there! Perhaps not as many as before, but although they are weary, they aren't fooled. I would place this tape in the range of 25% effective and not much more. On the positive side, it is a great conversation piece as many guests ask what that reflective tape is on the tree in my backyard?

Always always happy with this product. Always meet expectations and always the same consistent high quality product. I've been buying and using for several years now.

This product does not work at all. After putting it up so many pigeons would come to my balcony. Before I had a problem with one or two. Those photos are from one night! Bird poo all over my entire balcony after putting this crap up. It’s literally attracting them!

I thought that it was a tape and it's not so I had to tape it to my baloney wall to keep the birds away from sitting on the railing.

waste of money

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