Bird Hawk Flying Kite with Pole Crops Farm Protector Bird Scarer Flying Kite with 4m Pole-Style A

My sailboat attracts a lot of birds. In the late summer, early fall, there are large flocks of swallows that come together before migrating. They seem to really like sitting on every line on the boat and their discharge must be really acidic as it stains badly. 100 birds can make a real mess. I've tried plastic hawks (the swallows sit on it), reflective confetti, old CD disks, but nothing worked. While sailing in Canada I saw one of these kites flying above a dock. Of all the docks in the area, this one had no geese sitting on it, no otters, no white bird poop to speak of. it seemed worth the small cost of the kite. On the day that I put the kite up, I chased away about 50 swallows from the rigging of the boat. I positioned the kite off the stern since the boat at anchor normally points into the wind. It's been a week and I haven't seen a single swallow around the boat at all. The kite bobs all over the place. Not sure how realistic it is or whether one color is better than another, I'd guess that just the movement is enough. The neighbors even find it amusing! Seems to work well and thus a great value for the money. Try putting it on the end of a piece of plastic pipe for some additional flexibility and movement.

This thing really does work. I had about 50-60 chickens and I had hawks circling and chickens going missing but after I put this up I stoped losing them. The pole did break in a storm but it’s so long I was still able to use it. If u use the rope it will get tangled in the wind I found it best to just clip it straight to the pole and it still worked.

Really liked the look and effectiveness of keeping geese off our pier. Only lasts one season as the wind tears it apart. It tends to get tangled a lot too.

I haven’t used mine yet, but 5 other guys in our marina use these to keep the seagulls from crapping all over their boats.

Packaging was very nice and professional. Kite is well made and makes a great sound when manually moved from side to side. QR code for assembly was helpful as well. Had to look at other tutorials tho in English. I agree with one reviewer that that polel just isn’t long enough for the kite to catch wind and not catch itself on its own pole. I shortened the string by half and mounted it on a 7’ stake. It’s hanging out waiting for a nice breeze or wind to come by. I heard more red shoulder hawks today so I’m not sure if it’s inviting them or make them made. Took apart today to return and the fiberglass rod is thin and flakes. I hate fiberglass in my skin and this made me market down even lower.

Necessary for chasing away birds. Bird rotates in a way to scare birds away.

I’ve had these kites for about six months now and I’ve given them a respectable amount of time to test them out. Honestly, I cannot recommend them to anyone unless they either have cash to burn or will only use them sporadically. We used these to TRY to keep birds off our dock. The kites worked great for two months! However, after the sun started to break down the kite fabric and/or a good gust of wind or two caused the kites to crash into the dock causing the plastic kite ribs to break, the kites ceased being able to fly and they just kind of hang upside down now. If the company could invest in better fabric and kite ribs made of thicker plastic (so they could take a crash or two), then I think these would be worth the money.

I purchased this to keep the blue jays out of my home orchard and vineyard. This year I put up this hawk kite in my orchard when my cherries were ripening. So far, I have lost maybe a dozen cherries from two trees. The jays sit up on the power lines nearby and look disappointed. I have just ordered another bird kite to put near my hazelnut and walnut trees, since the first kite will need to stay in the orchard to protect other fruits ripening there. I had to trouble shoot it for a few days to get it to work effectively in all kinds of wind and in still air. Where I live it is generally calm in the mornings, but then can get very windy in the afternoons. So far, the kite, pole, and string are holding up. I found that getting it up high into the air allowed it to appear to be flying, even if it was just hanging from the pole in still air, and to not get hung up in the trees when it did get blown around (but to not contact the power lines just outside my fence). This is how I finally mounted it, and now have it working perfectly: I pounded a 5' long metal ½” conduit pipe into the ground so that 3' is above ground. Over that I slid a 10' long ¾” schedule 40 PVC pipe. The ground stake, to which the kite’s rod is attached, fits securely in the ¾” PVC. The ¾” PVC was too flexible, allowing the kite to dip into the tree tops and get caught, so I slipped a 6' long section of 1 ¼” PVC over the ¾” PVC to make it more rigid near the bottom. These are all set vertically, but the ¾” PVC is flexible near the top, as is the rod to which the kite is attached, and it all bends in the wind, and therefore the string does not get wrapped around the rod. The whole contraption raises the kite 23' into the air. I adjusted the length of the string so that it is about 5' long, short enough to keep it out of the trees and away from the power lines, but long enough to keep the kite "flying" over the trees in no wind. At first, I planned to take the kite down every few days, so the jays didn't habituate to it, but they returned as soon as I moved it, even though I put a scarecrow out there. I put the kite back and have not moved it in several weeks, and it is still working. I reduced my former 5 star review to 4 stars because the kite is fading significantly after 6 weeks of use. And also because the string provided becomes brittle in sunlight and breaks (it lasted about two months). UPDATE after 2 seasons of use: I purchased a second kite for use over my filbert and walnut trees. I had a biblical infestation of jays last year (possibly due to the commercial filbert grower nearby installing propane cannons to chase them away). Because the nuts were being eaten so early before ripening (still green), I left the kites up continuously for two months. The jays became habituated to the kites and stripped my trees clean before the nuts ripened. I am using both kites again this year. I put one up over my cherry trees and swapped it out for two scarecrows (which I made scarier by attaching upraised arms bearing pom-poms of flash tape), which worked well. I swapped them every few days. Now a kite is over my blueberry patch, which, because I have several varieties, ripen over a 10 week period. I periodically swap out the kite with the scarecrows and a dummy hawk on a post, and the jays seem to have left for the season. I am purchasing a kite-only without the pole to keep on standby. Both kites have faded significantly and one parked in a blackberry patch and was shredded when I pulled it out (still flies, just is deteriorating faster). It's cheaper than buying organic fruit.

Great really working, but one rods blew off 😩after 3 weeks

The item only contained the kite/bird it did not come with the pole to erect the kite as advertised, please ammend, second time i've written!

Works exceptionally well for deterring geese. We have a lakefront property with a lawn which the geese constantly destroyed and since installing the kite they won’t come near the dock or lawn. Ducks not so much but they don’t eat the grass or fertilize the lawn. BTW it withstands high winds.

The item came missing the pole so it was useless and wouldn't fly

Second year and still flying. I see no reason it won't go another year or two. A bit faded from the sun. Pole cracked at the end, but that was my loose installation fault. I reinforced it with a few hose clamps and all is good. If you are in a windy area, put a few hose clamps around the end as preventative measure.