I researched online and tried just about EVERY product I could find, and they were all lacking. Some broke before I got them hung up, some blew away,  some did damage to my house, as well as smacking up against my windows. None came with adequate installation hardware, which meant a trip to the hardware store and thus my needing to become a bit of a “Macgyver” in order to hang them up in a secure and functional manner.

I spent way too many hand aching hours putting together 24 split (key) rings – TWICE each (aka: opening a key ring 48 times in a row!?) – to assemble an inferior bird deterrent.  And I spent way too many hours trying to peel protective labels off of both sides of 24 discs – many of which I never could get the protective stickers all the way off, instead being left with something that looked like it had been through a cyclone.

While this was happening to me, I had a friend going through the exact same process in her attempt to combat the woodpeckers that were literally destroying her home and all her out-buildings.  Between the two of us – we spent way too much money and way too many hours trying to deal with the lacking options found online and in our local hardware stores – with no success! Everything either fell apart or simply did not keep the birds away for more than a few days.