Bird x laser deterrent?

[danzeb]

Birds are a big problem for me. They peck stone fruit and my tomatoes. Tomatoes I can cover but a large peach tree is difficult. Grape Kool-Aid?

My Least Favorite Orchard Task

An alternative to bird netting: in a ratio of four packets per gallon of water, take grape and only grape unsweetened Kool-aid and spray it in your fruit trees. You don’t need to do a lot. It repels birds by irritating their lungs so they stay away, and by my observations it clearly repels squirrels as well. Raccoons and possums, apparently not so much, though, so this year I bought some Erva bunny cages and put them around the bases of several of my fruit trees–but not all, because they were ex…