Greetings, sorry if this is the wrong place to ask this, but can anyone tell me how to keep birds out of my planter pots? they keep digging through them and while the bigger plants won’t be bothered by that the small ones get destroyed, saw that you could use some oils with isopropyl alcohol to keep them away, any tips are appreciated.
Birds? Or rodents? Birds don’t usually dig much. Maybe nesting?
Isopropyl alcohol evaporates in seconds.
Nope, birds, pigeons, crows and i don’t know what they are called but they are small, black and have a yellow beak, caught them in the act yesterday evening.
Edit: also found bird shit at the crime scene.
sounds like the MO of the common starling, they are known to dig up new plants. In the US they are a notorious pest.
Nah these were completely black, looked them up and it’s the common blackbird, ordered netting for defense and feeders and bird food as a deterrent, hopefully if they have something else to eat they’ll leave my stuff alone…
My thoughts exactly
Actually found a half dead mouse today, might have been poisoned or a bird dropped it, didn’t see any injuries but it couldn’t move and didn’t seem to breathe normally just long deep breaths when it could manage, used gloves to wrap it in some paper and dry grass and left it some food in the shed but it probably won’t survive the night.