Garlands of red beads? Who would that fool? Certainly not birds. Your
berry beads need to be a close facsimile or the real thing; birds are not
stupid!
How to hang the beads??? I started out by buying screw hooks, then
holding the hook with a pliers - heating the screw end with a blow torch and
melting in into the hole of the bead. That's quick but the wind can blow
them off a branch.
Next I used a small diameter, dead soft aluminum wire. Making a proper
hook and attaching it to the bead can be time-consuming but I did it for the
cherry trees because I leave the beads on the branches all year and the
aluminum is soft enough that it expands with the branches as they increase
their diameter.
Jim Fruth
Brambleberry Fruit Farm
4002 Davis Street
Pequot Lakes, MN 56472
1-218-831-7018 (My Cell)