Have You Used Painted Pebbles to Keep Birds Away From Your Fruit?

[beac]

http://www.motherearthnews.com/grow-it/have-you-used-painted-pebbles-to-keep-birds-away-from-your-fruit.aspx?utm_content=05.21.10+FG&utm_campaign=FG&utm_source=iPost&utm_medium=email

[Blue Gardener]

1. Haven't tried it

But wouldn't they just peck at the pebbles AND the fruit?

[beac]

2. My guess is yes, but I thought the article/comments were interesting,

esp. the clever person who used wooden eggs to train her chickens not to peck real ones. I suspect it would be harder to train all the wild birds around ones house not to peck.

Now, if I could only make an wooden tomato plant to train "my" groundhogs... maybe an ELECTRIFIED wooden tomato plant. ;)