Owl Decoy Scare - Plastic Hanging Reflective Scarer - Ornamental Decorative Wind Spinner for Home and Garden - with 4 Spiral Rods and 4 Suction Cups

Update: ive had these well over a year and the birds come nowhere near our windows and the air conditioners in the windows. I ended up putting 2 under each window and tied them together at the end (which makes almost a U shape) thiught the birds would end up landing on them but nope. They still swing enoughbin the wind but now theybdont slam into my windows furing in a storm. Plus wvn tho they are under awnings they still get hit by all the outside elements and thry havent gotten detroyed ans have held up very well! Love these things!!!! They are pretty sturdy and the bells are actually pretty loud. The suction cups were total crap so I attached them to my window awning with pipe cleaners. The owls are very reflective and when even a breeze comes thru they are swinging and keeping the birds away!! I cant say how they hold up in the rain cuz it has beem very dry here but it has been windy and the owls are just flying every where!! Lol. The silver spirals are pretty when they spin but other than that they are pretty much useless. They are cheap dollar store plastic ( the kind u pay a dollar for a pack of like 5). So u really are inly actually using the owls. I recommend hanging the owls so the freelly fly and not stuck up against the wall/window. Pretty good buy over all...no more bird poop on my window!!

Hang to scare off nesting birds or by your garden, it scares away rabbit, squirrels, and birds without harming them. They reflect the sun and create movement. Lightweight easy to store easy to assemble and they withstand cold and heat. They have bells on them so they also make noise noise and movement scares away pests.

This year we've had a very persistent Flycatcher (or several) who were regularly flying at windows, scratching and pecking. They don't seem to get hurt by doing this. In between attacks they sit on the porch rails and peer in at us! Early in the Spring (when there was still snow on the ground), even if we had bird feeders out, the bird would still do this. I tried playing the sounds of owls and hawks on my laptop near a window and they disappeared temporarily. Then we got these owls. They are cute, shimmery and move around in the wind. The owls have been a good repellent for almost almost 10 days. This morning, the bird is back to his old tricks, even though the owls are out. Now the wind is picking up so the owls should start moving around more. Maybe that will help.

So I have a large variety of beautiful birds outside my patio. I noticed a pair of mourning doves roosting on a hanger area and thought they were cute. Then they had babies! How precious. The babies grew and started pooping everywhere. I let it slide because spring and it’s sweet ect. Then they flew away and I cleaned up their mess. Done, right?! No! The same pair came back and did it all again. I didn’t realize they essentially do this all the warm months. Just pooping babies out left and right! I couldn’t go outside due to poop bomb fear! So I started looking up methods to keep them away without scaring off the other birds. I found this shiny eye sore and it scared the heck out of my cat, so I thought it would work. I didn’t hang it at first because I didn’t want to scare off other birds, just these mourning doves. So I put it exactly where the doves have been building their nest. It worked for about 2-3 days. Then I found the dove trying to build a nest on the other side so I slapped them all out there. Some hanging some perched ect. The doves have seen through my ploy 😐. It was worth a shot! But didn’t work.

Product as described and no issues there. Product quality is just okay. Mine have started to delaminate slightly around the edges and the rope ties only lasted a month or so before they broke. I replaced the rope ties with fishing line and that has lasted without issue. I hung them off my back patio to scare away morning doves that are eating at my stone patio tile. It worked for a short time (1-3 months or so) before the doves got used to them I guess and they no longer are a deterrent. Doves are back and unless it's very windy and the "owls" are really moving around a lot, the doves are no longer scared away by the movement or look of the "owls". Short term relief only, not a long term fix for my problem/usage.

I live in So. Miami Fl and we have a problem with vultures in the late fall & winter. We live within 10 miles of a major county landfill and that attracts buzzards. These decoys work great & scaring them away and off my expensive screened patio. They last about six months in our hot sun and then the reflective material wears off. I use them from late October to April. I crimp a loop on heavy monofiliment onto to a H/D fishing snap swivel and hang them from the screen frames on a eye bolt. They swirl around & spoke the vultures. They also work on Peacocks which is another bird problem we have here now.

The block I work on is overrun with pigeons. It's like a home base for them where they rest and try to hump each other when they aren't out being disgusting in other parts of the city. They will just waltz through the open bay door pecking around at nothing, or fly in, looking to roost. The two other businesses nearby allow them to do that they want, and every corner of those places is littered with feathers, crap, and their air is filled with constant cooing. Well, that's not happening here. I have a zero-tolerance policy for pigeons entering our workplace. Here, they are greeted with hostility. Generation after generation gets chased out of here 100% of the time. And to a certain degree, I think my efforts have worked; that they've been conditioned to know that this is the door that they shouldn't pass under. There isn't much traffic anymore in terms of pigeons invading my space. I'm very happy with the progress we've made. Just stay outside, is all I asked of them. Well, they stay outside for the most part, and I'm happy about that. But they still give me problems. How? Well, our cars are outside, and our cars get pelted with bird droppings all day long. Oh, you just got a car wash this weekend? Too bad. Oh, it rained last night, and washed away a lot of the crap that they put on your car yesterday? Here's more to replace yesterday's strafing. A few weeks ago, I thought, I have had enough of this. Enter Homescape Creations holographic owls, lol. There is a residential house across the street, and they have the 3-D plastic owls, like 4 of them, on every corner of the house, to ward off pigeons. Those owls seem to work for them, but I wasn't about to spend all that money AND install the things for something that only might work, so I figured I'd try something cheaper first. The Homescape Owls were inexpensive, and had pretty good reviews. So I got a pack of two. Well, from the first second that first owl appeared from over the parapet, those pigeons were gone from in front of our shop. There hasn't been a new load of crap on my car since that morning. No one else's car, either. No pigeons walking in the open bay door. No flapping. No landing on the overhead lights. No incessant cooing. And no having to yell at pigeons, no throwing stuff at them, no chasing them off with a length of pipe. It's been really liberating. I can now enjoy a beautiful morning, and work with the door open, because I haven't had to chase pigeons away the whole time. The pigeons still run this block, don't get me wrong, but they are not a problem in front of THIS workplace at this time. It's not even been a week. I don't know if the owls will weather the elements very well, or if the stupid pigeons will get used to them and start acting like they own the place again. But so far, the owls work perfectly and I am very happy.

I thought these owls were a good idea, and for the most part they did help to prevent woodpeckers from damaging our stucco. However, there are some negatives. 1) They are not very durable and don't hold up well to wind. Within a year, most had completely deteriorated; 2) Because of their larger size, you can hear them banging against the house on windy days; 3) no mounting hooks were provided; and 4) Because of their larger size, they are very noticable and not very attractive to visitors driving up to the house. Personally, I would not buy them again.