YOFIT Bird Scarecrow Fake Horned Hawk Decoy,Bird Repellent Garden Protectors, Natural Enemy Pest Deterrent Scarecrow

It was a super hot summer this year and my wife and I don't have an air conditioner in our bedroom. We never have. The kids have them in their rooms, but we don't because my wife tends to get cold easily. I avoided putting one in our room because I was concerned that I'd crank it way down and then she'd get up in the middle of the night and turn it off. Then, of course, I'd inevitably wake up hot as hell and angry. Better to just not have one and avoid a fight with the woman of my dreams. The first thing I do every day when I wake up is to open the curtains to look outside on the street. We live in a big city, so you never know what you'll see when you stand there in your undies looking outside. And yes, you read that correctly: she closes the curtains to make it dark at night. So there's not a lotta air flow. This one particular morning, I woke up and pulled my head off the soaking wet sponge that I formerly called a pillow and opened the curtain. To my surprise, I heard a weird fluttering sound I hadn't ever heard outside of my window. There were two pigeons that I had surprised when I opened the curtain and they circled back and stubbornly planted themselves right back on the window ledge. I had heard from a neighbor that you don't want them nesting and getting used to hanging out near your window because they will possibly nest and make noise and generally be a nuisance. I'm an old school guy, you know? I walk around my big city and I see how some of the bigger buildings deal with this problem. You see long rows of spikes tacked onto ledges of roofs and other edges of the apartment buildings. That's what I needed, I thought. So I went to my local hardware store and asked about these spiky strips. The kid at the store laughed at me a little and said, "No, no... those are illegal now. You can't get em. I can't sell them to you." I was confused. I thought maybe I was supposed to slip him five bucks and say, "But NOW you can sell em to me, right??" But before I could bribe the kid, he said, "You should buy those little plastic strips that reflect light. The birds hate those." Unfortunately he didn't have any in stock. So I went home and checked Amazon. I found those reflector strips the kid recommended, but all the reviews seemed the same... I'm paraphrasing about 300 negative reviews into one basic, common review: "These things work, but they're annoying as hell and make a racket outside, but the birds really don't like em!" I didn't want to install these outside my bedroom window for obvious reasons, so I kept scanning Amazon. Luckily, I found this YOFIT Fake Plastic Hawk that seemed to be very highly reviewed. And let me assure you, good old Huxley Hawk has really done the trick. Those freaking pigeons are ALL OVER the neighbors' houses. Not mine. They are obviously afraid of Huxley Hawk. How did we come up with the name for our fake plastic bird of prey, you ask? Easy. It had to be an H name for the benefit of alliteration of course. We settled on Huxley because it is of English origin meaning "inhospitable place." So Huxley Hawk sort of exists to create an inhospitable place for these dirty city pigeons. I highly recommend this product and even though it's advised that you rotate the bird to different places and inside sometime, I have never moved Huxley once. He's always right there and the pigeons poop themselves when they see him. I think pigeons are maybe dumb? I don't know. One thing to note, however: they don't provide you with rocks or sand or anything to weigh Huxley down so he can weather the wind and rain and other elements. I don't just have sand lying around so I took these rubber medical gloves we have and filled like 7 of them with water and shoved them into Huxley's body. Dude hasn't moved an inch and guards our building like the good soldier that he is. Last thing to mention here is that I've caught a few amateur birders snapping pics of Huxley. These old timers think he's real! The first time it happened, I was walking my dog down the block and some older woman had her phone out pointed at my house! I didn't understand why she'd be taking a photo of my house when I knew I wasn't up in the bedroom window with just my underwear on. What other reason?? And then I remembered Huxley... she saw that I was going into my house and she put a finger to her lips telling me to be quiet. "There's a hawk up there!" she whispered. I just giggled and clapped my hands as loud as I could. Then I did it again and again... Huxley obviously never moved. She looked at me strange and I said, "I guess he's dead!"

This was used in conjunction with Bird Expeller Pro ver 2 to rid my yard of gackles. Last year these gackles would bring their babies feces in sacks and drop them in and around my pool. Disgusting mess. They do this to keep it away from the nest so predators would know babies were there. Pretty smart. They would normally drop it in a stream or river so it would flow away. With none available they decided my pool would be a great replacement. Once they start it becomes a habit and they don't stop bringing this sacks. Probably 40-50 a day. My pool became a cess pool. The Bird Expeller (must be version2) scares them by making distress calls and predatory bird sounds. Now that got their attention. This fairly life like hawk added the visual to the audio. The results were amazing. Within 2 days they stopped coming by my pool. I kept the sounds and hawk out moving them around for best results for 3 weeks as instructions stated. They are gone and no longer even see them. SO I have to give some credit to the hawk.

I can't believe how well this worked. I had just finished painting my house a dark navy blue when I noticed bird poop all over the side of the house. I had no problems with the birds before, but now they've decided to use the side of my house for target practice with their poop. The culprit bird is a Black Phoebe and I can say with certainty they do not like this hawk. I put the hawk up on the fence at night when the Phoebe was asleep. The next morning there were none of the usual bird chirps anywhere near my house. They were gone baby gone. I'm sad to see them go because they're cool birds, but they were making a mess. I'd recommend this if you have small birds you want to go elsewhere.

I purchased this product to scare woodpecker which has been making holes in my house siding. After receiving this product, I wanted to try out immediately. First I filled it with water as suggested. It leaked in 10 minutes. Then I added sand to it, plug underneath the product could not hold on it. Quite disappointed. Will be returning the product.

Package arrived all beat up and open on both sides. I’m surprised the item didn’t fall out. Someone had taken packing tape and wrapped around package to keep it together. The hawk is nice. The coloring is good, but it didn’t do what I needed it to do which was get rid of a group of grackles. They are not deterred by it at all so if you read that on the Internet, don’t believe it.

I had to buy this because, I like to feed the song birds. Of course that soon turned into doves and pigeons on my porch just hanging out. Since I don't want bird poop all over, I bought this and some reflectors to maybe discourage them. Sure as hell, when I put it out, a dove landed right next to it. The trick to this is moving it around. Once I started doing that within a day they stopped coming. It works too good that even the song birds don't come around :(

I bought this item because every year we have sparrows that love to nest in our shutters. Of course, this makes our porch unusable because of the bird feces they leave behind. I'm tired of the noise and the mess, and I figured this might be an answer to our problem. Unfortunately, the little rats with wings caught on to it sooner than I'd hoped. It worked GREAT for about a day or two, and then the little pests were back, trying to make nests in the shutters again. The good thing is that there seems to be less of them around our house as a whole. The product itself is worth 5 stars. It's well made and looks real enough that it made those little jerks scatter at first. For the price, it was absolutely worth trying out - even if it ended up not working as well as I'd hoped. If you have an issue with garden pests, I would highly recommend this hawk.

I have tons of little sparrows trying to make nests in and around my gutters. For the last couple weeks I could hear them going in and out and hopping around just outside my windows. I bought this because of the reviews, figuring the sparrows would not go near it. It was placed about 15 feet from the worst spot. Initially it scared away all the sparrows. Within an hour, they were sitting on top of the gutter and squawking in the direction of the decoy. shortly after that , they were back to normal. So i moved it closer. After moving it closer it lasted for another day. The sparrows stayed away til the next morning when they began doing the same thing as before - landing on the gutters and squawking at the decoy. It wasn't til I put a more colorful OWL decoy out in the same area that the sparrows moved on... although they still stop on the higher part of the roof to check things out. The falcon looks cool, but does not appear to be effective, and i don't want to have to walk outside every day and move it around to keep the birds away.