Premium Quality Bird Deterrent Reflective Scare Tape Ribbon 350 ft Long – Pest Control Dual-sided Repellent For Pigeons, Grackles, Woodpeckers, Geese, Herons, Blackbirds & More – Sturdy & Ultra Strong

I will add photos soon, but for right now, here is my true review of this marvelous tape.It's GREAT! For well over a month, I had a very large bird which would come EVERY DAY, usually multiple times per day, and perch upon the cap of the largest vent on my roof. Here he would sit and amuse himself by loudly, abruptly, and super annoyingly pecking the cap of this vent. A METAL vent cap! No wood anywhere! It may have been a nuthatch or one of three main classes of pecking birds. It doesn't matter. This horrible creature did the same thing last year as well. If you have had this same problem, I don't have to tell you how LOUD it is inside the house, as it resonates from the center of the home each and every time he would peck on the cap (many times, like a machine gun from hell). And I don't have to tell you how awful it is to have your meditation, rest, or sleep suddenly interrupted with a very LOUD, ABRUPT machine gun pecking sound. It is HEINOUS.I searched for an answer and found this lovely tape. It has no adhesive of it's own, and it doesn't need it. What this tape does is to BLIND any bird that attempts to look directly at it, making it far too uncomfortable to look at for the bird. For my application, I went onto my roof and took the reflective scare tape as well as a roll of Nashua metal duct tape (also silver in color). A very easy and effective way to install it (at least around a vent pipe or on any flat or even curved surface) is to take a piece of metal duct tape (the tougher the better) and tape it to one end of a length of the reflective scare tape. Then tape that end down to the base of the pipe and begin to wind the scare tape around the pipe or object/area you wish to protect. After you wind it around the vent pipe a few times, tack it on with another piece of metal tape. Do this in intermittent locations around the pipe to keep the reflective tape secured to the pipe (or wall, or whatever). Next, I covered the top (cap) of the pipe with short individual lengths of the scare tape, each one secured to the cap by using metal tape on each end of each length of scare tape and adhering it to the underside of the cap to help protect it from rain, sun, etc.As I said I will add photos. But what I ended up with was a two foot tall vent pipe completely covered with the scare tape. The cap itself is absolutely covered with no gaps. I also tacked a few lengths onto my swamp cooler (next to the vent) as well as around two small vent pipes nearby just to make it blinding in every direction around the pipe he used to love to sit on and machine gun my brain every day.THE RESULT: Since the MOMENT I installed this tape, using the methods described, I haven't a single, solitary visit from this highly offensive bird, and I have not heard one, single, solitary pecking sound on my house! I used to have this problem off and on in years past as well. Not anymore! I am here to tell you that this tape genuinely works, and works BEAUTIFULLY! The reason is that it is simply impossible to look directly at it once it is installed, particularly in bright sunlight, without considerable discomfort. You have to look away immediately. Therefore any bird is literally UNABLE to peck anything covered with this tape, as he would have to look right at it to peck it!Whatever your bird troubles may be, if you can find a way to install this tape on or around whatever or wherever the problem is, THIS WILL FIX IT! I don't think any living creature which has a pair of eyes could tolerate looking at this tape for more than a second or two. Send 'em packing! Get this tape now! It is the real deal!Peace and Quiet has been restored in my home by buying one roll of tape. I haven't tried it yet, but I have a feeling this may work in certain applications for squirrels as well, if one could install the tape in such a way in a problem area that blinded the squirrels. This tape may indeed "scare" critters (particularly birds) away due to it's intense reflectivity as well as the diamond patterns, etc. But my strong feeling is that what really makes this tape work is that it is indeed very uncomfortable to look at directly. And I'm sure that squirrels are just as sensitive to extremes of light being reflected directly into their eyes as any birds are, or for that matter, most bothersome critters (I bet rabbits aren't fond of looking at it either). I will post an update later after I have tried it in the garden this year for squirrels, rabbits, deer, etc. It may look a bit "loud" or gaudy in a garden, but I'd rather have bright shiny gardens than chewed up, maimed gardens any day!! Awesome!!

My situation:I have 3 semi-dwarf apple trees in my front yard and am otherwise surrounded by mature hardwood forest. My nemesis's are squirrels and birds - woodpeckers, primarily. The woodpeckers open the fruit up, then myriads of other birds move in to feast on the opened up fruit. Some years the squirrels are the worst, sometimes it's the birds. This year it's the birds. I knew the birds were doing some damage but I completely underestimated how much. Looking from below, the fruit looked like it was still intact. I happened to move around and saw that they had been doing massive damage from above and had about half of the entire crop of apples hollowed out. In panic mode, I stumbled upon this stuff.My deployment:The scare tape arrived quickly and I got right to stringing it. I have no idea how they expect you are supposed to deploy this stuff. I have seen pictures of it draped through the trees and others where it was cut into strips, then each strip hung from an individual limb. Cutting into strips seemed way too much work, so what I decided to do was run a continuous strip through each tree, concentrating on the areas of surviving fruit. I left a lot of loose loops along the way so in the event of heavy wind, the tape wouldn't start tearing the fruit off. The loops also tend to flutter in the breeze, making for a better deterrent. Long strips would also allow for much easier removal & storage after harvest. Next, I erected 2 poles and strung a wire between them running along the entire length of the tree row. I then cut strips of scare tape to a length that could flap freely in the breeze without getting hung up on anything, and tied them to the wire, spaced equally.My results:I've been using the scare tape for about 3 weeks and the birds are absolutely, completely gone! It went from hundreds of bird visits per day (every few minutes from dawn to dusk) to zero. I have not seen a single bird in those trees from the moment of deployment and have not lost a single additional piece of fruit to bird strikes. Not only that, I have not had a single loss to squirrels either, which was completely unexpected. However, we have 2-3 weeks more til harvest so there is still some time to have squirrel problems - time will tell.Why I think it works:Birds are very sharped eyed - that's how they make their living. The effect of this stuff when it's in direct sunlight is dazzling, particularly when the wind blows, which covers a good portion of most days. But even when it's cloudy or the wind isn't blowing I think this stuff makes it particularly hard to acquire their targets - a mirror is brighter than a dull apple under almost any conditions. In addition, the pieces I have blowing on the wire (it takes an almost imperceptible low wind speed to get them fluttering) make a constant rustling sound that is sure to overload their next most sensitive sense - hearing. Trying to listen for predators isn't going to work, so time to scoot.Some ideas for enhancing the performance:1) Cut narrow strips of the scare tape and mount them in front of a blowing fan like they have on fan displays in the store. Oscillating fans would even be better. A raft of surplus computer cooling fans would be cheap and effective.2) Add strobes. DaBaay sells 12v led emergency strobe light bars for cars relatively cheap that can be broken apart into individual units and mounted on rebar driven into the ground so that you'd have many bright flashing lights coming from every direction to reflect off the tape.See the attached pictures for my deployment. BTW, I also installed some of those "giant eyeball" bird repellers but they are almost always turned the wrong way to do any good and, in any case, I have absolutely no faith in them providing any long term relief anyway.

Yes, this is advertised for scare tape and to keep animals away. I have been using this on my Leyland cypress trees to keep deer away from rubbing their dang antlers on their bark and killing the trees. In addition to a mesh fencing, I haven’t seen many deer at all around these trees anymore and the tape flaps with very little wind necessary. It’s simple to cut and install and can be used for many other things like marking tape, scare tape and I’ve even used it to tag trees! Simple design and nice reflective material.