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Light Deterrent for Badgers, Deer, Foxes & Rabbits

Our first season in this rural environment in Dorset started off well, with a bumper crop of veg and thriving seedlings.  Then about two months ago it started.  First the heads were bitten off the flowers and shrubs, then the tops off the peas and beans, after which we found shredded bird corpses everywhere and now we've enormous piles of badger poo in the newly dug over plots, probably attracted by windfall plums.  We've fenced off where we can, and we put cloches over  other crops at night, but this week I lost (or have nearly lost) a couple of newly planted hibiscus shrubs which have had their tops chewed off.  We've now put cages around them but the invasion seems relentless.  Has anyone tried movement-sensor lights to put them off?  At the very least we'll know when they're there ...  :)

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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090

    Don't know if motion activated lights work but it sounds like you need a water scarecrow.  Google for models and prices.

    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • We have a problem with badgers and we have got a light working on a sensor and no it doesn't deter the Badgers I sometimes think they would say thank you if they could for giving them a light to show them the way.

  • plant pauperplant pauper Posts: 6,904

    Never get tired of watching that DHR. What's the music they're dancing to?

  • plant pauperplant pauper Posts: 6,904

    Thanks for that DH. My ex, as a professional musician, envied my Boogie Woogie abilities on piano. He just couldn't get it! 

    Love that piece. You chose well.

  • Hilarious!  Camera, lights, action I guess.  At least I can get entertained by the creatures marauding my garden then.  Those water scarecrows look interesting - I'll research them more fully this weekend. 

  • plant pauperplant pauper Posts: 6,904

    What you don't really see sandra is the steady, progressive trashing of DHR's picture perfect back garden! image Stuff all tipped willy nilly and pots pounced from!!! By the end of the few weeks everything was carefully wrapped in chicken wire to limit the damage. Ponds were secured and pouncing platforms instated. It was very entertaining. There's a whole thread about it.

    http://www.gardenersworld.com/forum/wildlife-gardening/the-fox/994523.html

    http://s1120.photobucket.com/user/CarmenSternwood/library/Fiona?sort=3&page=1&postlogin=true

    All back to normal now I'm sure.

    Last edited: 26 August 2017 09:37:23

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