Thanks, Sam. Love the editorials along the way....the fan works great. Made a couple and they scared flickers away. Used shiny tape on the blades.

I actually went out and bought a plastic owl and placed it in my cherry tree and still the birds are coming. These birds here in Canada are fearless. Great idea for the windmill. Thank you

Nicely demonstrated Mr Sam. I had the same problem with birds on my brassicas last year, but as long as the growing tip is still there the plants will recover. Andy

Loved the video, straightforward instructions and a bit of welcome humour ;8)

I have saved lots of bottles of different sizes... to make cloches and as water dispensers etcetera. This idea is brilliant, thanks for sharing it.

Your shows are wonderfully entertaining! Port Dalhousie, Ontario

What crazy sorcery is this?! Love it! Going to give it a go a.s.a.p.

I am so glad I took Rickvanmann's advise and viewed your videos! You are very entertaining and I love your allotment! I also love Paul the Allotment god.

Will definitly have a go at making a few,might even consider painting them in bright colours to make them more scarier cheers mate.

Sparrows absolutely love chards!

Great video, thanks for sharing!

Very good tutorial! We have annoying pigeons and doves tearing our eaves apart! I'm making these! Thank you!!

CD discs work as well, tied on fishing line and left to dangle anywhere you can to scare birds off. Birds are scared of shine bright dangling things that swing around every which way!

I came over here from Rickvanman as well and loved your videos, so I subb'd you. I am really thankful for this how to video for a bird scarer. I tried looking at others but could not tell exactly how they did it. You did a really good job at providing all the details. Thanks so much! Happy Gardening from Angie in AR, USA

Awesome job Mr Sam😀

Man & his shed. Great video. Cheers

well done russell keep the wood pile faith!

Very nice! Thanks for sharing!👍❤️

Thank you Sam. Keep on the good work ! ;)

Thank you so much. I'v made loads now. A suggestion..... I found the sellotape very difficult. Also tried staples, but they weren't great either. Now I use knitting wool, tied first to one spoke, then wound round the middle, in front and then behind all spokes. Keeps it firm - and looks quite pretty.

thank for the vid, when working with pop bottles theres a trick to make things easyer, just freeze some water in the bottle so that when cutting it does not bend, a bit safer when using a blade

Mate., If that's your estimate of a centimeter,,,,,,your rulers broken. Great idea. Going to give it a go cos the pigeons are doing damage to the washing.

Another subscriber from Rick here. Really enjoying the videos Sam keep them coming. Mike, Christchurch, NZ

good idea- made a few and they work a treat

Love this. Thank you!

Great idea love your videos.

Very cool device Sam, Glad you showed us how to make them I might have a go myself if I get a chance. You're welcome, glad the shout out helped :-)

Hi Mr Sam. Thought i would keep it formal under the circumstances (don't really know what that means but i do tend to go off on a tangent ) well thanks for your posts and advice. I have started on my wood pile which i show in my first ever KZfaq post yesterday.

LOL easy and fast, however I go the full monty, nothing beats the Portuguese bird scarer called the "Caravella" which is a full frame with a metal pot updside down and that is the drum which 2 balls or pieces of wood spining on a wooden shaft hit with . It is almost like the Slovenian one however the Portuguese made it 100 times more simpler and effective. I made 5 of those and sold them to some farms here in Canada. For the Canadian weather ( freak winds) they have to be metal blades.

Another great video from you. I came here from Rickvanman. Look forward to your next video

Speaking of kale, I’ve just sow a few rows of kale seeds yesterday and when I cone to visit the site this morning there was a sign of bird scratches from it now, so I’ll just have to sow a few kale seeds again. Then make a bird deterrent device like old cd et al.

Thanks I used this for a school project and got a A+

Thank you for sharing this information 😊

Im glad rick shared otherwise I wouldn't of seen your humorous videos thanks Sam. :)

cool vid again keep them coming sam

Sorry to say but I have 6 of these I made 2 yrs ago around in a semi circle and I am sitting looking out of the patio doors at 6 pigeons wandering around looking for seeds dropped by the local house sparrows. If you still make them, a tip. Spokes from an old wheel are perfect to use for this as they have the thread and nut thing at one end and you cut the other bent end off. Put the bottle on, then a wooden bead, and bend the spoke just behind the bottle and bead. Then pop it in a bamboo cane which has been drilled down through the top.

Finally an option I gon try it n let u know if it works

Great idea I will surely try.

Nice bird scaring thing😀😀

Very cool. This and couple of dangling old cds should do the trick for birds. But what about squirrels?

Great series Mr Sam ,ive given you a mention in my last video.

nice one i am putting in a one acre meadow from scratch and this will save some money ,better start drinking some cider

Sam - We have a large back yard with a Pool and trees in Nevada on a corner lot. The pigeons and blackbirds besides the usual robins and swallows are constantly in our yard. We want them to stay away, but keep the humming birds. Suggestions? Not a lot of grass, but some. more dirt and rock. The pool is the major attraction.

I feed birds in my yard but don't like all my sunflowers being ravaged. would this keep my sunflowers from the birds but not scare them off from everywhere else?

Just made one , it works keeping crows and magpies from ripping up my lawn looking for leather jackets 👍

Brilliant!!!! Thanks

Awesome! want to make them!

Do you think a really big one would scare off cats and stop them taking a dump in my garden?

Excellent you intelligent man

Thank you now all i need is how to put on the PUSHOUTS OF THE CARAVAN HAVE YOU ANY SUGGESTIONS FOR A ELDERLY WIDOW?

A good demo of effectiveness of this bird scare tactic would be a video of a bird getting scared and flying off.

Will it keep the woodpeckers away ?

Good ideas thank you

Wire coat hanger can be used

Since my last comment I bought 4 solar powered gadgets that have magnetic or hook attachments and have placed them strategically around my balcony. They make a clicking noise that disturbs birds. This took a while to work because birds are stubborn and had been enjoying by balcony for a couple of years....ie creatures of habit. Eventually, months later I have far less a problem with birds although an occasional on or two still check my balcony out. Not surprising really as there are 100s of pigeons around my area with ignorant folks feeding them in park opposite from where I live......so those who don't know better will still turn up......but this is not their fav spot like it used to be thanks to these gadgets and cleaning after them is not such a big drama anymore.

Good idea

Great to see how it is done Sam. The only extra bit of detail I'd love is on the wire used. It's such an important part of the update? Is wire hanger cut to size an option? Thanks again. Loved the updates from the start. Mossy?

why don't any of you guys show them working in a garden or a yard. looked at a dozen videos, no one leaves the shop they work in....I want to see how the look as well as work...

brillant thankyou so much for sharing

Good idea I`ll try that

You could probably staple the bases of the blades together too

After watching 60 sec of your video I got a water bottle, put a hole in lid, string a string thru lid and hung in the area and walaa

I have a huge problem with crows on our power line. Any ideas on where to put these to scare off those buggers?

I like that idea,if I put dried barley in them it might scare all the cats as well.

Great!!

thank you

You could put dried peas in it so it rattles and frightens the birds even more:-)

nice one mr sam, have big problem with crows, will give it a go, the buggers steal my duck eggs on our smallholding.

is the line a centimeter and a half or does he mean an inch and a half? it looks wider than a centimeter to me

Here is a good tip get a rubber snake from Amazon less than 20 bucks tie it using fishing line on the top branch ,so it's visible between the second and top branches as the branch shakes from the wind so will the snake.....problem solved

plz also show how it actually kept away the birds.post a video on that.

thank you .....i will try this ,i like birds but they are driving our ten month old wild cat crazy he is inside laying on the windowsill and robins cardinals jays crows take turns flying really close to the window and get the cat crazy.i hope this works cause our little guy is doing his best to get tame ,we have a parakeet too the cat likes it ,but the wild birds might change that.

i will making a thesis like this can you help me sir

? how about putting some uncooked rice inside to rattle around a bit... would that work?

Birds will soon make it their toy to play around!

Does this work for Hawks? Had one take my pet chicken 😭

thanks for sharing. kale netted...brassicas to be protected. The crows think they own this place.

You can buy a windmill from Poundland!

Instead of using tape on the blades can't I just Staple them together?

Why not just by 49 cent pinwheels?

When you change scenes, that nose is loud and annoying. Good video, but can you make mine for me?

Doesn't work for sparrows though😕

ok

Thank you. I’m trying to scare away a crow that keeps leaving bits of dead animals in the bird bath. Filthy.

Who the heck is nickin’ this mans bird scarers? How bad must a persons day be going for them to go and take another mans home made bird scarer? Fertilise my garden with them, I would!

I'm sure you can find awesome woodworking plans on woodprix website

lol you dont need tv then you have comady allotment

Why are you using Stanley's knife? Use your own!

lol hahaha