The Big Cheese Standing Falcon Life-like Decoy Deterrent, Scares Birds from Gardens and Buildings

I've been skeptical for a long time about getting a decoy falcon convinced it was just a rumour. Our garden was getting invaded by pigeons and this time enough was enough was willing to take the risk and hope for the best. A group flew over tried to land in their spot and saw the falcon and flapped so fast up away as quickly as they could haha. It so far has kept pigeons away from our entire garden, seagulls and crows. I highly recommend this item. This is an honest review and I'd hope this review helps someone else who has the same problem. Id recommend not securing it to a particular position and just move it around your garden now and again. Ours is not up very high and it's doing a tremendous job. Don't wait like I did buy it now. It's also on par price wise with some other sellers outside of Amazon and arrived next day. Held down with some soil and a few stones for weight and absolutely solid item and life like size. Works a treat.

This purchase was primarily to stop pigeons from eating all of the grass seed on my lawn. Netting unfortunately failed as the pigeons just walked carefully across it.This model bird hasn’t completely stopped the pigeons landing on the grass but there’s definitely been a significant reduction. It does require filing with stones to stop it from blowing over and also positioning in different locations every couple of days. If not, the pigeons seem to figure out it’s a model. It’s also important to position it relatively high up - It didn’t seem to deter the pigeons when placed on the floor.Ultimately this has seemed to work as a short term solution while re-seeding the lawn so would recommend it for that purpose.

Clearly doesn't deter seagulls 😂

Bought it to keep birds off my plants… so unrealistic but actually seemed to work!

works

Doesn’t work. Literally 30 mins after placing this in the garden for the first time, there was a pigeon pecking at the lawn right next to it. Luckily, it was cheap and is okay as an ornament but definitely NOT a deterrent.

I bought this in the hope that it might deter my neighbour's pet seagulls (she insists on feeding them every day) from hanging around on the chimney tops and and driving me nuts with their incessant squawking and chattering, and also to stop large birds like crows taking baths in my pond and busting up my water lilies. I wasn't that convinced, but since I installed Percy the Peregrine on his perch beside my pond, I've not heard a cheep out of the flying rat gulls, and there are certainly a lot less of them now. I still see other smaller garden birds around, so it doesn't seen to have driven them away, which is good, but the gulls certainly aren't at all happy and have obviously been rattled. Most likely because gulls have an instinctive fear of Peregrines. I also move him to a new perch every day, which no doubt helps. If you hate flying rat gulls, buy a Percy... He's worked for me. No more crows in my pond either.

Bought this to scare away starlings that are messing all over my garden. Looks good but the birds are not scared, it makes me jump when I see it on the porch roof !