How to Scare Away Birds With Old CDs

Put those old CDs to use and save your garden crops. Bright light reflecting off the CDs may be effective in scaring away many would-be munchers such as sparrows, blackbirds, starlings and jays.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Hole Punchers
• Monofilament Line

1. 

   Break old CDs in half by cutting them or by bending them over the edge of a counter or other flat surface until they break.

2. 

   Use a hole puncher to make a hole near the edge of each CD half.

3. 

   Thread monofilament line through the holes and hang the CD halves in your garden or in fruit trees.

Tips & Warnings

• Although hanging CDs is a good method of frightening away birds, the method is not likely to work 100 percent of the time.
• The broken edges of CDs could cut you. Only adults should break and handle them.

[Groundhog]

on 6/15/2007 My yard is full of dangling, flashing, shining CDs. It doesn’t stop the Robin from eating cherries right off the trees!

[Groundhog]

on 6/15/2007 I don’t know about the proper uses of tools exactly. However, after stinging up many whole CDs I put about a half dozen in a vise and cut them with a hack and a coping saw. I did this because I figured they would spray some shrapnel if I broke them in half.

[Groundhog]

on 6/11/2007 I found using a hole-puncher doesn’t work that well. Maybe that’s just my hole-puncher. None-the-less, for all of you that have one, an electric drill works great! I found stacking the CDs on a piece of something (to protect the working surface of course) and drill right threw them is more effective, efficient, and time-saving.

on 11/22/2005 Don't worry about breaking the CDs or cutting yourself, use them whole. I glue 2 CDs back to back.

on 11/22/2005 Put two CDs together with the shiny sides out. Tie the ends of a strong string together, making a loop about one foot or so. Place the looped end through the holes of the CD's. Run one looped end through the other looped end. You now have the disks hanging from the string. Loop the string around a small branch and watch the disks spin and reflect the sun. If the CD is shiny on both sides, use only one.