Keep Birds Away with Fruit Tree Protection
If you have fruit trees in your yard, you are likely no stranger to pest birds. Watching birds destroy your crop right before harvest can turn gardening into a constant race to see who gets the ripened fruit first. Implementing effective fruit tree protection before fruit ripens is essential to keeping birds from ruining your harvest.
Health and Hygiene Risks of Uncontrolled Birds
Protecting your fruit yield is only part of the equation. Preventing bird droppings and nests from accumulating around your yard and outdoor living spaces is equally important. Piles of bird feces are not only unsightly, but when left to dry, they can pose serious health hazards. Dried bird droppings can harbor and transmit over 60 recognized transmissible diseases, including fungal infections and bacteria.
When pest birds roost in fruit trees, they also construct nests packed with organic debris, droppings, parasites, and insects—including bird mites and bed bugs. These pests can easily migrate from nearby trees into your home. Installing reliable fruit tree protection eliminates roosting zones, keeping your yard clean, healthy, and pest-free.
Effective Fruit Tree and Garden Protection Methods
1. Garden and Fruit Tree Netting
Physical exclusion using garden bird netting is one of the most reliable methods for safeguarding fruit trees, berry bushes, and vegetable patches. Netting can be draped directly over individual fruit tree canopies and tied off at the trunk to block access to ripening fruit. For larger plots, garden netting can be suspended over elevated support posts using dedicated netting clips to form a complete protective canopy. Lightweight, durable, and UV-stabilized, mesh netting provides a continuous physical barrier without blocking essential sunlight, rain, or airflow.
2. Visual Deterrents & Scare Diverters
Scare balloons and reflective visual diverters leverage a bird's natural fear of sight-based predators. Featuring bold predator eye patterns, holographic surfaces, and bright colors, these visual distractors can be hung directly from tree branches, arbors, or house eaves. As ambient breezes move the diverters, sunlight reflects off their surfaces, creating unpredictable light flashes and motion that trigger an immediate escape response.
3. Sonic Audio Deterrents
For expansive yards, orchards, or multi-tree properties, sonic bird deterrents deliver multi-acre coverage. Devices like the Bird Chase Super Sonic intermittently broadcast pre-recorded distress and predator calls that alert birds to immediate danger. Instinctively reacting to these threat sounds, pest birds flee the area rather than attempting to land and feed.
Bird B Gone is the world's largest manufacturer and distributor of commercial-grade and residential bird control products. For assistance choosing the right netting or deterrent system for your home garden, contact our experts at 800-392-6915.