We live on a lake with ducks. They like to hang out under the shade of my boat house on the dock. You can imagine the mess from a flock of ducks. We bought this to keep the dock clean when we go boating. I hooked this up and about five minutes later the first ducks landed. This thing turned on they all flew away. It worked perfectly. After a couple of days they were conditioned to stay away from the dock. Now I turn it on maybe once a week for a couple of minutes when ever a new duck shows up. I can't imagine anything working better.
I purchased the scarecrow to deter our pet ducks and geese from pooping on our sidewalk and porch, and to keep them from using my wife's herb garden as their salad bar. The scarecrow was trivially easy to set up and install. The sensitivity settings appear to work pretty well. It was immediately effective. The combination of the noise made by the activation of the spray, and the spray itself, sent them running. I had it set to "miss" the sidewalk, but both the Fedex guy and the mailman were startled (not moistened) by the thing turning on suddenly. Me -- I got drenched a couple of times when I inadvertently walked across the lawn in front of it. My own fault.... The bad news: geese are not completely stupid. They've been watching me for about 3 weeks now, and early this week I found them on the porch again, having circumnavigated the "forbidden zone" and come in via the sidewalk. By staying to the side, they can keep from tripping the motion sensor, and still get to the salad bar. Good news, while not completely stupid, they're not brainiacs either. I'd rate the scarecrow as over 90% effective, and that's good enough for me. Not sure what I'll do to replace the scarecrow when nightly temperatures fall below freezing later this month.... I haven't had to change the battery yet, but will do so this week. It seems to have become a bit less sensitive in the last week, and I'm speculating that the battery is about out of juice.
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