It's early summer. You've planted your garden. Your trees and shrubs are
full of fruit. Before you get a chance to enjoy them, your crops are
harvested by birds.

Again, barriers are the most effective deterrents.

Hot caps (opaque plastic "hats" used to cover young plants in the spring
to prevent freezing) and inverted crates can keep starlings from pulling
up small plants.

Netting may keep starlings, catbirds, orioles, robins, blackbirds and
jays from your grapes, apples and raspberries.

Scare techniques may repel birds from gardens. Try wind chimes.

Placing feeders filled with sunflower, millet, nectar and peanuts nearby
may also distract birds.