Bird Scarer Flying Kite Crops Farm Protector Bird Hawk Flying Kite with 4m Telescopic Pole

Easy to assemble . Flys well doing its job at keeping the birds away . Tears easy in high winds , but I have repaired the tear & it still works .

Worked great - for 24 hours. Thats all it took in regular windy weather for the hooks to snap.

Used to protect garden apple trees from blackbirds and jackdaws. I estimate that it was 90% effective in keeping jackdaws from the apple crop, about 50 -60% effective against blackbirds. The best deterent I have found to reduce fruit loss due to birds as it is not practical to net the trees. I bought one last year and a second one this year. Well designed and made; however, an improvement would be if the kite was attached to the end of the rod through a swivle (when tied on direct the chord eventually broke, also the chord sometimes wraps around the pole).

When it's working in the wind it's a moving fluttering deterrent, and I've not seen any of the expected pigeons near my newly seeded lawn area.BUT:1) It's the usual sort of telescopic rod arrangement that you pull out and twist to lock in place. However, for the life of me I cannot get the top section to stay up for more than a day. It collapses down after a time, which unfortunately means that I either have to have the line to the kite quite short or the bird catches the ground if the line length is set to full pole length.2) As per other reviews of many of these things despite the rotating attachment at the top of the pole, the string does get wound round the pole until the kite will no longer fly.As a result of the two above issues I basically have to go and reset the scarer each morning.On the plus side, however as stated I have not had any pigeons, but I do also have lots of the reflective tape deployed and the small rotating windmills

80% effective as some random pigeons still attempting to land in garden.

I unwrapped this item and put it together as per the video instructions. As I pushed the holding pole into my lawn, it broke. It is ridiculously fragile. So now I have to use it with my outdoor parasol stand which is a pain as it's very heavy to move, and I have to move it daily otherwise it will kill the grass underneath.Cheap and poor quality holding pole ruins an otherwise ok product.

The media could not be loaded. We’ve had this in our garden since April. Today we shortened the string so it flies higher which has had some good results. Yearly we have been plagued by gulls and just wish everyone made their chimneys inhospitable, We have not been able to go in our garden when their young arrive without an umbrella for protection of us and our dogs. Does it work? I’d say yes, fingers crossed, lots of twigs up there but no birds. I think this falcon might drive them back to the cliffs where they belong. It’s worth a try and the signs are good 😊

Waste of money. Pole is flimsy as is the decoy bird. Didn't survive long enough to see if it actually worked. Pathetic.