Mad Doug Biker
Just a damaged guy.
- Location
- Craggy Island
Hello, how do you stop/deter birds like Crows and Magpies, etc from damaging and destroying clothespegs and other garden items?
Thanks
Thanks
You give them a stern telling off
Use a peg bag. Keep items under cover? Crows and magpies are pretty intelligent. They might like a challenge.
Problem is that they have damaged some whilst being used, so I can't even protect them in a bag.
I will need to be more careful, I concur - I am lazy and just leave the pegs to live on the washing line, so I guess I have brought it on myself.
Are the pegs brightly coloured or have shiny hinge springs ? Corvids etc love to play with stuff like that.
For quite a long time now, I have never bothered with taking my clothes pegs out/inside when seeing to washing on the line. They just live outside on the line. I am not sure what this does for the cleanliness, of them, but I haven't had any issues yet regarding that.
ANNNYway, occasionally, I have had a peg that has simply broken or disintegrated when I go to use it but yesterday, YESTERDAY, was an absolute joke!
I must have lost about 15 of them on putting washing out, seriously, they were only short of exploding in my hand (ooh err). It was very, very annoying and there was much swearing, something which there would only have been more so of if a piece had pinged into my eye.
I had thought that maybe the weather had gradually weakened the them, but then, when I came out to take the washing back in, I noticed that some of the previously usable survivors had been damaged in the interim.
What was going on?
Well, it suddenly occurred to me, my neighbour feeds the birds and I have recently started too as well. There are some large crows with horrible big beaks which just seem appear with the other birds. Not much I can do about that.
The Crows are clearly being attracted to the clothes and then destroying my pegs, the buggers!
What do do? 🤷
Maybe the crows are employed by one legged pirates?
Maybe the crows are employed by one legged pirates?
I've noticed that some plastic clothes pegs seem to deteriorate unexpectedly quickly due to sunlight and become brittle. Maybe an argument for traditional wooden ones (no moving parts) or at least sprung wooden ones? Also, less attractive to corvids?
Well, now you come to mention it... 🤔😆
Could be actually, that would explain the ones dramatically disintegrating in my hand.
I think I did have wooden ones ages ago, but those also deteriorated over time.
I'll just have to buy new ones and keep them away from those pesky birdses and UV light!
One thing, if I catch them doing it, do I test positive for Corvid?
You beat me to it, I was just going to post similar.I've noticed that some plastic clothes pegs seem to deteriorate unexpectedly quickly due to sunlight and become brittle. Maybe an argument for traditional wooden ones (no moving parts) or at least sprung wooden ones? Also, less attractive to corvids?