Li Youran stood on the edge of the courtyard pool, lowered his head and pondered, trying to find a good way to solve the problem of fish safety.
Now for small birds, the spatial stream in the pond is the main factor that attracts them. For big birds, there is also the delicious fish. Once you become addicted to these things, it is difficult to stop them.
What's more, there are plans to plant fruit trees in the yard in the near future, and they will be varieties that have been improved by space land and streams. When all kinds of fruits mature and the fruity fragrance is overflowing, the temptation will definitely be even worse. If you leave it alone, it is estimated that
The entire courtyard will be turned into a bird's nest, but this will be troublesome. Maybe the neighbors and the property management company will interfere.
What if we refer to the fish pond in Baozipu’s backyard?
There is an arched glass lighting cover installed above the Baozipu fish pond, which effectively prevents the attention of birds. Of course, it is in a downtown area, and there are at most a few sparrows. Large birds, such as wild ducks and egrets, are simply impossible.
In the past, this problem did not exist.
But the pond in front of me is part of the garden design. It is cashew-shaped, and its edges are surrounded by various rockeries and bluestones, which are irregularly distributed.
It is impossible to install a glass lighting cover in this form. If you do it reluctantly, it will be very ugly and destroy the effect of the entire garden.
So the plan was immediately rejected.
It is not advisable to beat gongs or set off firecrackers. Although the noise is loud, it can only achieve a temporary effect. Never underestimate the intelligence of birds. They are actually much smarter than humans think. At most, they will be scared away.
, it won’t be long before it comes back, and if you do it a few more times or listen too much, your nerves will become numb, and even the short-term effects will probably disappear.
Furthermore, in the past, some people in my hometown beat birds to death and hung them in the fields to scare other birds. Naturally, this kind of thing cannot be done. After all, birds still need to be protected.
I heard that there are also some electronic bird-repelling devices that claim to be high-tech, but when it comes to such products, they are often a mixed bag. It is not easy to find the ones that really work. You need to compare and select slowly. It cannot solve the urgent need.
Forget it, let’s use the most traditional method, build a scarecrow, deal with it for a while first, count as many days as you can manage, and then go back and slowly check the information to find a solution.
Two egrets on the magnolia tree in the west looked here for a long time. Seeing Li Youran standing there and not leaving, they stretched their necks and croaked at him twice, looking impatient.
Hey, these rotten birds, it's already cheap enough not to settle accounts with them, but they dare to push themselves, they are really spoiled.
Li Youran grabbed two handfuls of soil from under the boxwood balls, squeezed them hard, raised his hand, and heard two thumps. A pair of mud balls hit the trunk of the magnolia tree, causing the branches to tremble and mud to splash.
The egrets were so frightened that they croaked and screamed. They put their feet into the air and spread their wings, and they both ran away.
After temporarily dealing with these two guys, Li Youran returned to the small building, washed up and had breakfast. Then he discussed with Sun Xiaoying about planting a scarecrow to scare the birds.
"Scarecrow, okay, but we don't have straw here?" Sun Xiaoying thought this idea was interesting, but she lacked materials.
"Haha, silly girl, scarecrow is just a term. In fact, any material will do, as long as it is shaped into a human shape." Li Youran explained with a smile.
Sun Xiaoying figured it out immediately, and the brother and sister split up to find the materials.
Li Youran went to the warehouse to find some wooden cubes and nailed them into the shape of a cross. The bottom was sharpened so that it could be easily nailed into the soil.
Then, together with Sun Xiaoying, we tied sponges and foam on the cross and wrapped it with old cloth. This was to make the skeleton fuller and more human-like, so that the effect would be good.
Above the cross, it is wrapped into an oval ball to imitate a human head.
"You also need to draw a human face on the head to make it more realistic." Li Youran suggested, pointing to the appearance wrapped in white cloth.
"Okay, I'll draw it." Sun Xiaoying volunteered to find an oil-based pen and drew the eyes, eyebrows and mouth on the dummy's face.
Looking at the smiling, affable face of the dummy, Li Youran couldn't help but laugh.
"Silly girl, are you planning to scare the birds, or are you planning to make friends with them and treat them to dinner?"
Having said this, he stepped forward to take the oil-based pen and began to make modifications.
A minute later, a gray face with ghostly eyes, fangs, and a bloody mouth appeared in front of him.
"Oh, it looks like a ghost. If it were night, it wouldn't scare people to death." Sun Xiaoying frowned and yelled.
"Haha, this is effective. Look at your brother, these two strokes of painting are very good. They are the result of hard study and practice when he was a child." Li Youran said proudly.
He wasn't bragging. He did draw a lot of grimaces in elementary school and junior high school. There were Li's calligraphy masterpieces left on books, on the school's blackboard, and on the walls.
The last step was to dress the dummy. Sun Xiaoying found an old dress of her own, which was sky blue, and put it on the dummy.
Li Youran tore a piece of black cloth into a bunch of long thin strips and tied them behind the dummy's head to act as hair.
Then put a mutilated little straw hat on his head, and he looked like a freshly-baked female ghost.
Sun Xiaoying looked at it for a while and felt that it was too dirty to keep in the room, so she urged Li Youran to take it out quickly.
Li Youran wanted to tease her again, but Sun Xiaoying turned around and went upstairs.
"It's really good. His skills have improved again." Li Youran looked at his masterpiece and liked it more and more.
He picked up the dummy and walked out of the house, where he met Liao Liao who was playing outside.
Chirp, Chirp, Lou Lou suddenly saw the dummy, screamed in fright, flew straight to the east window on the second floor, looking for the little girl, and two black feathers fell in the air.
It seemed that the effect was pretty good, and Li Youran was even more satisfied.
I carried the dummy to the edge of the pond, found a place with good lighting and easy to see, and plunged the lower end of the dummy into the ground.
Then pick up a pebble, take off the dummy's head first, knock it firmly from the top, and finally put it back back to normal.
A gust of wind blows, and the long hair is fluttering, and the clothes are dancing and whistling. If paired with suitable music, it would look like a horror movie.
After finishing these things, Li Youran looked around, confirmed the effect, and found that the position was optimal, then turned around and returned to the room.
If you think about it further, you can make more use of it, prepare a few different clothes, and dress the dummy up in two days. This way you can keep it fresh and avoid being spotted by those thieving birds. Yes, it's a good idea. Li
Walk leisurely and think.
Not to mention, the dummy in the garden still worked. During the whole day, not a single bird came close to the pond. At most, it moved around the outside.
This also made the brother and sister Li Youran temporarily relieved.