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[Hélène Dessureault <interverbis@videotron.ca>]

Hi,
There is a commercial blueberries self-picking farm nearby and they use a 
soundtrack of birds in distress on a speaker. I inquired about it, and of 
course did not realize about the type of cries it was. Apparently, it keeps 
the wild birds away because they feel that there is a danger... It is not a 
bad bird sound for the pickers to listen to and of course we are not scared 
off by it... :)
It could be an interesting route that might warrant further investigation as 
this would be a lot cheaper than netting, but I do not know whether the 
birds eventually get used to it...

Hélène, zone 3-4 north of Ottawa
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <jerrydana5@aol.com>
To: <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2011 9:05 AM
Subject: [NAFEX] How to keep birds from blueberries


> Any suggestions on how to keep birds from my blueberries?  Netting is 
> terribly expensive. (about 14 bushes in a row) and they always seem to get 
> underneath it.  pie tins?  Muffin tins? I'm tired of feeding the birds 
> this way.  jerry in southern Indiana
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