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Old 17-02-2013, 01:14 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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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.


Sometimes you are such a bad boy that I love you.