{"id":2652,"date":"2019-09-18T00:03:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T07:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/pal\/pal-question-442\/"},"modified":"2023-08-09T09:49:41","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T16:49:41","slug":"protecting-figs-from-birds","status":"publish","type":"pal","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/pal\/protecting-figs-from-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"protecting figs from birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Starlings eat our figs before we can partake. Is netting the only sure solution or are there other methods?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/wdfw.wa.gov\/living\/starlings.html\">Living with Wildlife page<\/a> on starlings mentions netting as well as bird-scare tape and other devices. Other sources suggest picking just-ripe figs early in the morning, and not leaving ripe figs on the tree&#8211;the birds know perhaps better than we do when the fruit it ripe.<\/p>\n<p>The netting is probably your best bet for the fig tree, although it is a bit cumbersome and unsightly. I imagine the figs are worth it, despite the aesthetic sacrifice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starlings eat our figs before we can partake. Is netting the only sure solution or are there other methods? &nbsp; Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife&#8217;s Living with Wildlife page on starlings mentions netting as well as bird-scare tape and other devices. Other sources suggest picking just-ripe figs early in the morning, and not leaving ripe figs on the tree&#8211;the birds know perhaps better than we do when the fruit it ripe. The netting is probably your best bet&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/pal\/protecting-figs-from-birds\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">protecting figs from birds<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","keyword":[608,607],"class_list":["post-2652","pal","type-pal","status-publish","hentry","keyword-bird-pests","keyword-starlings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pal\/2652"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pal"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/pal"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"keyword","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keyword?post=2652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}