An answer you(and everybody else) probably don't want to hear: get a couple of outdoor cats.
Since animal activists have successfully declared EVERY cat that goes out doors as feral (which is utter BS) we have to keep our cat indoors 24/7 and since then we have been plagued with birds and rats. Our cats rarely actually caught birds there were just a good deterrent.
Rats now need to be treated with poison, which probably still manage to nibble with their poisoned snouts on our fruit and veg before they die and rot somewhere with disgusting smell.
Birds?
I have tried everything including building my own variable high pitch powerful square wave and pulse generators using PA quality horn tweeters that shut up dogs 100's of meters away but a fruit bat 3m up a tree just stares at me with some evil grin.
The best I ever managed was to throw my slipper at a King Parrot with Al Bundy style accuracy and it did stay away almost a week.
Our current solution is to plaster all our crops with this:
They are always 4x10m so if you order 4x100m you get 10 but for $5.39 each instead of $13.89.
They are very thin but astonishingly tough, bees get through but butterflies not, so no caterpillars either.
Stops Bush turkeys too if you construct it right. Critters get underneath if it is not perfectly matched to the ground. We have tangled/trapped a couple mynas in the net.
So thanks to the nets I now have hands full of blueberries every morning for brekkie and cherry tomatoes without end. Going to try the sweet orange snacking tomatoes hopefully soon.
Before the King parrot would just pull off every single tomato while it is still green and throw it on the ground as it obviously doesn't like them green but continues to pull them all off.
They must be the dumbest birds. I think all birds are dumb.
I also hate that the birds eat our garden spiders who successfully catch a lot of flies and mozzies in their nets until the birds eat the spiders.
The birds don't bother with insects, they just destroy our hard earned crops or dig up the seedlings to take the worms that make our soil fertile.
And if there might be anything fertile in bird excrement it never ends up in the garden but always all over the car, pool sitting area or on places where it is hard to reach and clean.
Bloody animal activists have taken away the natural enemies for population management.
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