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Dave West wrote:

Elderly relative living abroad by herself, is having most of the fruit eaten
by birds from a fruit tree about three and half metres high.

Since she is too old now to get a net over the tree, is there anything else
she might usefully be able to do to stop the birds?

Buy a shotgun. Take up hawking. Buy an agricultural bird scarer.
I don't recommend any of them in such a case.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.