Bird spikes, netting and deterrents

With the problem rather than the product. Birds sitting ON something is a spike job, getting INTO something is a netting job, and using an open area is a repellent or a powered unit.

The stainless strip and the moulded plastic strip, plus the gutter and fence pages, which are the same two products with advice for those positions.

The same two strips again, listed by the bird or animal people search for: pigeons, gulls, sparrows, wrens, Indian mynas, squirrels, possums, cats and snakes.

Ten of them are the one stainless strip and four are the one moulded strip. The advice on each differs, the object does not, and the flagship page says so in the copy.

Because a person with gulls searches for gull spikes. Keeping the page and telling the truth on it is better for everybody than pretending there are fourteen products.

Repellent gel, holographic scare tape, hanging reflective discs, a decoy owl, and the solar sonic and ultrasonic units.

A knitted 20 mm garden net in two sizes, and a fine PVC coated steel mesh kit for closing the gap under a solar array.

A stainless strip or a hanging disc, both €5. There is no minimum order on either.

The motion activated ultrasonic unit at €499. It is a commercial scale purchase and its page says so plainly.

For a bulk order, yes: the wholesale page has a quote form. On a normal order the price is the price.

There is a 15% code for valued customers. If you are on the mailing list you will have it.

Measure the run in metres and double it, because a strip is 50 cm. Round up. On a wide ledge, double it again for two rows.

Yes, and most orders do. Spikes on the ledge and netting over the opening is a very common pair.

Usually a spike strip on the rail, and gel where the rail is round or too narrow for a base. Discs if it is an open balcony with wind.

Netting, framed clear of the fruit and pulled taut. Discs or tape help during the weeks that matter but they are not a barrier.

Stainless strips on the stack top, the flashing ledges and the ridge. Not on the pot, which has no flat surface.

The mesh kit. It closes the perimeter gap, which is where the expensive damage happens.

The moulded plastic strip. It is blunt, it has no wire, and it is visible, which is worth something on a boundary.

Poorly. Ultrasound reflects and shadows badly in an enclosed space and every coverage assumption in that category is about open ground.

The sonic one is not. It runs recorded audio at 120 dB on a cycle through the daylight hours.

The spike strips and the mesh, apart from an annual clear out. The visual deterrents need moving every week or two and the gel needs a fresh bead about once a year.

No. Fixings are chosen for the surface rather than supplied, because brick, timber, metal and railings all want something different.

You have fourteen days from delivery to change your mind and a further fourteen to send it back. We would rather you asked first, though.

Yes. Email theteam@birdspikes.direct with a photograph of the surface and what the bird is. Several pages here exist mainly to talk somebody out of the wrong purchase.

Free across France over €35, and €15 below that.

Processing is 2 to 5 days and delivery is about 10 to 18 business days from there, tracked throughout.

Card and PayPal, and those are the only two. Both go through the checkout on this site.

Yes, and the price shown is the price charged.

Yes. There is a wholesale page with a quote form on it.

No. Everything sold is a physical or visual deterrent. The one thing to be careful with is netting, which must be tensioned and staked: a slack net can entangle birds and hedgehogs, and every netting page on this site says so.