Repellent Ribbon

I have struggled with pigeons nesting on my solar panels and tried many things to get rid of them but this is the simplest and most effective. Forget the ultrasonic scarers and spikes; this is your answer. I only bought because a friend recommended and was sceptical. I thought I'd try it before committing to getting the big ladder out again so duct taped two 1m lengths to bits I could reach out of the window and just that has been enough to move the birds along and let me sleep again. One piece has blown away but at this price I don't care; if I went up and secured it properly that wouldn't happen. It is a bit noisey as it clatters about on the roof in high winds but the effect on the birds is worth that and easily ignored. It'll move about well in very light winds and is quite sturdy material so should last. Not that that's a concern for the price but if you have it in inaccessible places as I will you would want that. I don't generally directly recommend products but will make an exception - if you want rid of birds, buy this!

It reflects light as it blows around, and it has worked for my pigeon problem. Have spent 40quid on spikes, 10 quid on an owl, this little item was just what was needed to stop the pigoens nesting in a corner of the roof of the conservatory. And blocking the guttering which cause an overflow, and water damage inside the conservatory. Sadly There is no adhesive on eitherside of the strip hence 1 star.. for that, and lost a star on overall review because the video misrepresents that aspect of the item. I have hung a long strip of it out the bathroom window into the offending corner. I thought the reflective graphic on the double sided strip looked similar to the colouring & irredesance of pigeon markings.. It comes on a roll, so cut to lenghths you want. And made of a waterproof thick material.

The first day I installed it I had it too tight and got very frustrated to see a pigeon sitting over it!!! but then I made it a bit lose so the wind keeps moving it and I haven't had any birds around since!!!! Thank god for this as my terrace needed a break from bird p** ---------- This is an edit for the previous review as I found a couple of birds sitting over the tape very comfortably. Don't seem to be bothered by it. Rubbish.

You really have to make an effort to get this stuff to work but when you do, wow, just brilliant. Having read the many reviews by users who were disappointed I thought I would give it a chance as many of them seemed to have used it in a half-hearted static arrangement and, hey, what's to lose, it's as cheap as chips or even cheaper. To protect my wisteria covered pergola against the flock of pidgeons that ate every flowering bud last year and ruined the display of blossoms I spent a lot of time arranging mutiple strips of tape on upright and horizontal bamboo canes, some more than a metre long, others a little less. Perhaps 50 strips in all an a dynamic arrangement. Once set up, the slightest breeze resulted in myriad flashing reflections and a confusion of rattles, cracks and whooshes. Not one pidgeon landed, they were so distracted and scared. Today, as the wisteria comes into full bloom the holographic tape comes down having done a perfect job. Recommended; it really does work if you make the effort.

I bought this to deter swallows from flying into a garage that has not door. I spent a couple of hours cutting it into 1 meter lengths (over 20 in all) and nailing them to the garage rafters inside, and onto a pole outside the entrance. Two weeks later, there is a nest in the garage and today, a swallow was feeding it's young in there, totally undisturbed by the rattling and fluttering shiny strips. The garage floor is testament to the fact that birds have no toilet training! In short, this is useless. Don't waste your money on it.

Our neighbour feeds the pigeons every morning and they then fly over into our garden where they leave their droppings all over our garden furniture and terrace and also perch on our chimney and TV aerial where they make a lot of noise and also leave droppings. We've explained the problem to her politely several times but we are just met with unpleasant replies and she continues to put food out especially for them - she has pigeon proof feeders for other birds which is nice because we love the other birds!! In desperation we have bought several 5m collapsible fibre glass flag poles from Amazon and tied lengths of this tape down them and placed them strategically in the garden. We also used 3 poles inside each other (like Russian dolls) to get extra height and strength and fixed this near the chimney. After all this work and expense we are thrilled to be able to say this works well and now we hardly ever see pigeons in our garden or on the roof!! The only time the pigeons ignore the tape is when it's wet and doesn't 'flap' but it soon dries out and unfurls itself from the poles so we can live with this!!. At these times shaking a bit of tape at them does the trick!! As the poles are high the tape is above our eye level when we're in the garden so it isn't annoying for us. This tape is thicker and much more robust and shiny than another brand we tried.Excellent product!!

First of all this tape is Not adehesive. It is designed to wrap around and be tied or fixed in some other manner. I needed it to deter squadrons of birds from devouring the cherries from my larger tree. I have two very nimble cats but even they needed a rest occasionally! As things were I was becoming desperate. This tape is nice and reflective and relatively rigid and makes an impressive noise in the wind. I tried tying it on the branches but due to the metallic nature of the tape that did not work too well. In the end I used a domestic stapler and stapled the top on. Result? Even in gale force 6 so far the tape remains undamaged but best of all, I have not seen one bird attempt to land or even come near to eat a cherry. So after five days the cherries are still ripening and remain intact. And it is a simple, humane and effective deterrent. I cannot recommend it enough.

We bought this tape as we had been recommended it by someone who swears by it. They used it in long strips to stop pigeons/birds getting on to an enclosed decking area. I think it worked because the birds did not want to fly through the strips of tape. But for us it just did not work. We needed it to stop pigeons pooing all over the kids trampoline! First of all I hung 120cm strips of tape (hanging down) all round the top bars of the trampoline. This did nothing. So I halved all the strips so there were now twice as many. Still did nothing. I then got more long strips to combine with the short ones. Then I folded long strips up (like you might make a fan with napkins)so they could be a bit like spikes and then lay them all over the tops of the trampoline bars - thinking ha ha the pigeons will never land on there now. So wrong. They just sat there right on the tape. When it was really quite windy the tape would flap away and the spikey tape on the top would move up and down and this was the only time that the pigeons stayed away. I'm hoping that next year when all the birds come back after winter they decide to just avoid our house!!

Lo compré sin ninguna convicción, por lo listos que son los pájaros. Tengo un árbol que se estaba convirtiendo en dormitorio de gorriones. Cada día más, con su jolgorio y suciedad añadidos. Colgué las cintas la misma tarde que las recibí y no se atrevieron a posarse, con lo que, desde entonces, cero gorriones y ha vuelto la paz a mi jardín. Eso sí, una pareja de palomas ha estado varios días reposando en mi árbol sin hacer ni caso a las cintas. Por lo que afirmo que: para gorriones me ha funcionado a la perfección, pero para palomas no sirve. Para otros pájaros no puedo opinar

Haven't used yet so cannot comment.

ho acquistato questo nastro perché avevo bisogno di liberarmi degli uccelli che sporcano il terrazzo: piccioni, gazze, tortore, tutte sul tetto e sporcano con le loro feci il pavimento del balcone in maniera vergognosa. cercavo qualcosa che non facesse loro del male, ma li distogliesse dal fermarvi. ne ho fatte diverse strisce sul corrimano del terrazzo e sulla grondaia e devo dire che funziona, il vento lo fa volare e riflette i raggi solari dando disturbo. Funziona, sono decisamente diminuiti ed ho il balcone pulito

Täglich wurde mein Balkon von Spatzen vollgekackt und zwar nicht nur hier und da mal ein Böhnchen sondern wirklich flächendeckend, so dass ich noch nicht einmal einen Fuß raussetzen konnte ohne reinzutreten. Da ich meinen Balkon also nicht mehr betreten konnte, ohne vorher langwierig ekligen Vogelkot zu entfernen und das Frühjahr bereits sonnige Tage bescherte, musste eine Lösung gefunden werden. Ich habe lange überlegt, wie ich die Vögel fernhalten kann. Über meinem Balkon befindet sich eine Dachgaube mit Balken (rechts und links etwa in Höhe von 2,5 m und in der Mitte in Höhe von ca. 4 m) und diese wurden von den Vögeln mehr und mehr belagert, ein einfaches Windspiel, das früher ausgereicht hat, hatte die Spatzen nun seit letzten Herbst nicht mehr abgehalten. Bevor ich nun eine Leiter mit der entsprechenden Länge (die ich sonst nicht brauche und gar nicht weiß wo ich sie aufbewahren soll) und Taubenspikes (die den Spatzen möglicherweise noch für den Nestbau gefallen) für viel Geld kaufe, habe ich zuerst, trotz der negativen Rezension, zu diesem Abwehrband gegriffen. Jeweils 2 Bänder habe ich um die Balken rechts und links geschlungen (hier komme ich mit der normalen Haushaltsleiter noch dran), unter dem Balken zusammengetackert und ca. 50 cm lang hängen lassen. Am mittleren Balken habe ich ein Windspiel aus Stoff befestigt (was schweres an die Schnur gebunden und über den Balken geworfen), an dem unten Stoffbänder herunter hängen, über diese Stoffbänder habe ich nun jeweils noch einen Streifen des Abwehrbandes drüber getackert. Anfangs war es etwas gewöhnungsbedürftig, weil die Bänder im Wind auch rascheln und die Sonne sehr gut reflektieren und dadurch auch Lichtflecken in der Wohnung tanzen, was ich aber nach kurzer Zeit nicht mehr als störend empfunden habe, Vogelkacke war um ein vielfaches störender. Auf meinem Balkon geht meistens etwas Wind und die Bänder sind dadurch eigentlich ständig in Bewegung, rascheln und blitzen, das scheint den lieben Vögelchen nicht zu gefallen und sie bleiben tatsächlich fern. Alles hängt nun ca. 2 Wochen und seither kann ich meinen Balkon wieder uneingeschränkt benutzen, ohne vorher lange zu fegen und zu schrubben. Keine Vogelkacke mehr auf dem Boden, dem Tisch oder den Stühlen, so dass ich auch mal nur für 5 Minuten raus kann, ohne ein Vielfaches an Zeit vorher - mit Übelkeit kämpfend - ins Putzen zu investieren. Ich kann das Abwehrband daher wirklich empfehlen, man sollte nur einfach darauf achten, dass die Bänder frei in der Luft flattern können, würden sie nur an der Hauswand herunter hängen, wäre der Effekt sicherlich nicht groß. Es sind noch einige Meter Band übrig, falls die Bänder sich lösen oder kaputt gehen, kann ich diese bestimmt noch zweimal mit dem Restband ersetzen, so gesehen eine recht preiswerte Lösung.

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