Homemade bird repellant?

[Cletus Emmett Wheelwelker]

Anyone tried these?

Im leaning toward a pump sprayer with cayenne pepper in 50/50 vinegar and water.

[micky]

No, I don't, it looks fine, but it's conceivable that's because I use Blacken for Firefox. It's an add-on for the browser that turns grey text black. That's all it does. I had to turn it off once after I got a warning it was slowing down windows, but that was a long time ago, and I figured it would go back on, and if not, I could turn it on manually when I came across another grey page.

Is your text grey? It won't turn yellow black and it won't turn light red on dark red black. I agree, some of them are idiots. Care more about style than being read.

Worth notiing they spell spray wrong, "spay-to-keep-birds-away/" but that is indeed the correct url name.

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Apparently the author of the website made things up. Birds cannot taste the "HOT" in hot peppers. Hot pepper use the hotness to repel mammals, not birds. Birds are the target carrier of their seed. Many birds swallow small varieties of hot peppers whole. That's why most hot peppers have soft seeds instead of hard seeds, because birds don't chew.

[Scott Lurndal]

The site appears to be 100% clickbait. Typical headlines: "Is a Penguin a Bird? "Where do birds go in a hurricane?" "How many birds have the Cardinal as their state bird?"

Note the disclaimer: "Thayerbirding.com is in no way related to Thayer Birding Software or its founder Peter W. Thayer."

[Cindy Hamilton]

I'd be surprised if cayenne worked. Chili peppers evolved to repel mammals (whose digestive tract destroys seeds) and not birds (whose digestive tract spreads seeds to new locations).

Nope. It was black on white for me.

Almost certainly.

[hubops]

When my driveway was gravel, I would use vinegar to kill the weeds. tough gravel driveway weeds ! It was the full strength cleaning vinegar - and it worked pretty good. I'd doubt that regular vinegar - even in a 50-50 mix with water - would be harmless to delicate garden plants - especially when used _daily_ as this web site suggests .. duh . Also - for a large garden - a person would go broke using several of these "remedies". weekly / daily / 2x per day ! ! For a small garden there are probably better and easier bird deterrent ideas. John T.

[T]

I donotknow, but they sell bird feed with red pepper seeds mixed in to keep squirrels away.

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When I eat pizza with sprinkled crushed red pepper on top, I found that the white seeds taste hotter than the red skin.

[T]

Exactly!

I grow hot peppers. The seeds are mainly at the base of the pepper. I also will sometimes eat the peppers straight, but do avoid te base.

When me gets into trouble, I drink a little bit of heavy whipping cream!

I have about 500 seeds collected for next spring. (I don't care for paying $4.50 per plant.)

[Cletus Emmett Wheelwelker]

Thanks for all the good info.

[T]

You are most welcome.

Have you considered something like this?