Ugold Silver Bird Scaring Reflective Tape, Holographic Ribbon, Ideal for Garden, Patio, Field and Fence - 1'' x 500 Ft (Silver)

For decades flocks ravens have periodically colonized the big (very big) Plane tree on my neighbor’s property, directly across from the second floor terrace on my home.LOTS OF THEM. A hundred, easy.They’re extremely loud and dirty and they attack my picture windows.It was like a Hitchcock movie around here, intermittently, for years. No, really…When I say attack, I mean break, and ONLY on that side of the house, and only at those two big terrace windows.They fly at, and attack, their own reflections in the glass in a sort of frenzy. I’ve had to replace two very large broken windows. We even tried taping blankets or tarps over the windows while they were there. It doesn’t help.They dive bombed the gardeners and pets.Hyper territorial. Really aggressive.Nothing moves them! They are afraid of nothing. I’ve tried everything short of physically harming them.Yelling and arm waving produces no result other than a quick flinch and a dirty look from the ones sitting in the tree. These things are stubborn and obsessed.Animal control and pest control have no suggestions except that animal control sent me a warning about bird poo on my terrace.Thanks, that was helpful.This went on periodically for years.Then, on impulse, one day I ordered a roll of this tape, with no illusions that it would work, but you never know….So, I tied about five, six foot lengths of it, spaced about 6” apart, toward the top portion of a 6’ bamboo garden stake.OK, again, I had no illusions that this would work, NOTHING WORKS, but at that point I would have tried anything legal.I took my stick, braced myself, threw open the French doors, and dashed out waving the stick around like a madwoman, yelling “AAAAAAAAUGH!!!”…and the most astonishing thing happened.They all EXPLODED into the air at once, it was loud, and I could feel the air concussion from the ones that had taken off from the terrace.They quickly organized, turned, and took off for the horizon, yelling their heads off. These are not small birds, it was a shock!Geeze!!! I stood there with my eyes bugging out and mouth hanging open and waited for them to double back.They didn’t! They made a bee line for the horizon and kept going East.And they didn’t COME back either! That was three years ago, they never came back!I can’t believe it!We had been trying to get rid of these things for a decade at least and this tape sent them into a blind panic in one second and they never came back!!!!!Whaaaat???I kept checking for days, not one of them ever returned. 😮It’s STILL difficult to believe that that happened, what a shock!BUY THE TAPE…I wonder what they thought it was?

I tied the scare tape around the rafters of the roof over our deck at home and at our lake house. I spaced it every 12" to 18" and let it dangle down around 2" to 6" below the knot that is flush with the bottom of the rafter. 2" closest to the front edge of the roof and longer toward the back so it can't as readily be as seen or as obvious from the ground or lake. It is so thin, it slips easily between the metal roofing and the rafters. I've watched the bird behavior and they will start to fly in to perch in some of the spans and other locations where they are able. When they see the scare tape, they will quickly turn and fly to a nearby tree instead. This is amazing! Also, with it tied up and out of the weather and sunlight, it doesn't appear to be degrading in the least even though it was hung early in the summer. I fully expect the tape to be intact next year.At the lake house, we've had an especially hard time with birds. They like to come in and perch where they can and poop all over the deck. The railing and decking have stayed covered in the past. This year the deck has been nearly completely poop free since hanging the scare tape. Of course there is an occasional dropping, but that is tolerable and SO MUCH better than in past years! The railing is staying clear as well with all of the reflective movement above. Even the ceiling fans and deck furniture are poop free!The tape is silent as well. We don't hear it moving in the wind. And, it is tied up so high and out of the way, it isn't too unsightly. I would rather have the tape than the poop anyway though!I highly recommend scare tape. The only issue I've had with it is at the lake house I tied a couple of strands near a motion light and it will trigger the light when windy. I need to take those two strands down but just haven't yet. I keep forgetting. For the price and the minor effort to hang it, this is the most amazing bird repellent I've tried to date.

We have been using this for a couple years, and it works GREAT, but the metallic part wears off, and you end up with just bare clear, limp plastic. The good news it, it isn't expensive and there is a lot, so we just replace about once a year, usually in fall when the woodpeckers get very active on our house. I recently came up with what I think it is a brilliant idea, and that is hang it through the second story windows! That allows it to be up high where the woodpeckers like and we don't have crawl on ladders or attach it to the siding. I suggested it to a colleague, because I do believe in the product, I just wish the metallic didn't wear off.

We have a nice deck connected to our pool and we couldn’t keep the birds off of it. We even had ducks swimming in it. 😐. They were cute but they left droppings all over the deck, chairs, and table. It was disgusting and there would be about 50 of the little birds at a time on it when we weren’t.We needed to get the birds to stay off our deck and pool. We tried one of those fake owls. That didn’t work at all. I placed this ribbon in numerous places on our deck and pool, and the birds won’t go near it. I put it up in July or August and we haven’t had one bird on the deck or edge of the pool since. We never went a day without multiple birds landing on it all day long before. I used white duct tape to secure pieces that were about 5 inches long that would blow in the breeze. It looks a little silly, but it works. Over time I might replace them with smaller and smaller pieces until I find the right size that isn’t too long but still works. Maybe I can just tape it flat but I’m not sure yet. I was so desperate I went a little overboard.

The product works but it really needs to be self adhesive. Or it needs to clearly say "you have to nail this to the tree." There are places I can't use it because it's really just a shiny Mylar ribbon. It is exactly what it claims to be so no complaints.