Blackbirds Being A Nuisance.

[gavnmel 10]

Hi,anyone else having bother with the blighters making a mess of there beds?

I put 42 onions in a raised veg bed last week,and the morning after at least a bloody dozen had been pulled out.

What's peoples advice on keeping them off?

I've put a decorative windmill in to see if it helps but they still keep strolling about on the bed!!!!

[Thorpist 72]

One of the joys of gardening, if you net the onions the blackbirds will head for any other area they can scrape to get at food . My spuds are their favourite area.

Sparrows on peas ,Red leg partridge getting under netting to eat brassicas ,Pheasants and blackbirds eating fruit the minute it ripens .

Isn't it fun gardening!

[taxman 12]

Put some rotten apples out nearby, they'll prefer that as food.

[Janus 28]

@OP

Have you actually seen the black birds doing this? The reason I ask is because I have had problems with Magpies. I have had young plants pulled from pots. When discussing this on a garden forum, many others described the nuisance that the Magpies have been to the plants.

[Refugee 0]

I have has potatoes unearthed by blackbirds and also mulch thrown off.

I have found that if the mulch is thick enough they tire of it.

Pigeons are more of a problem.