You might be forgiven for thinking that a Scarecrow Sprinkler is a camouflaged dual purpose lawn watering device. It isn´t. A motion activated scarecrow sprinkler is a automatic deterrent that scares unwanted animals from your garden. This includes fairly large animals such as deer, as well as smaller intruders such as cats, rats or birds.

Over the years, various ways have been devised to get rid of garden pests, either permanently as in the case of poison, or temporarily such as with twirling windmills, or loud noises. Straightforward traditional scarecrows can be used, but however scary they might be, they are a poor long term solution since the effect of a stationary object (even if it moves) is temporary.

The fact is that with these methods, a biological effect known as habituation comes into play. This is seen in small creatures, such as snails, which stop retracting their antennae after a short time of being touched with a stick. With humans, we will get used to unpleasant smells or flashing lights over time, that might be distracting to begin with.

The same goes for most other animals. Once their brains get used to the idea that they’re not under any threat to their life, they will subconsciously cut out the nuisance effect to concentrate on other possible new dangers. So the static, traditional, scarecrow, or the loud bird siren will lose their effectiveness over time and the pests will ignore them. As we will see shortly, a motion activated scarecrow sprinkler is something the pests don’t ever get used to.

Methods such as the use of poison are obviously out of favor these days, because of the dangers of leaving poisoned slugs, for instance, that may carry toxic substances that will kill innocent birds that eat them. These methods could also be dangerous to pets and children and are, in any case, are perceived as inhumane by many people.

More ingenious methods have been used in scaring birds on runways, for instance, by playing loud recordings of the calls of birds that prey on the unwanted birds. These methods have been tried in gardens but can be costly and eventually ineffective.

The most effective animal deterrent is a combination of high and low technologies, known as the scarecrow sprinkler. This uses a motion activated spray of water, and is triggered by the same kind of reliable motion detector that you find in intruder alarms.

Once a pest is detected, the scarecrow sprinkler quickly shoots a jet of water in its direction and the shock of getting a splash of water from seemingly nowhere. The beauty of a motion activated scarecrow sprinkler is the effectiveness and simplicity. Since it runs on water it is a set and forget garden protection that simply works every time and is a ecological and animal friendly deterrent. Instead of inhumanely killing the animals, a automatic scarecrow sprinkler system will simply scare them time and time again until they eventually stop coming back to your garden.

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Smart garden protection with a motion activated scarecrow sprinkler.

Not too long ago, poisons and traps were the standard methods to protect your garden and crops from rodents and small pests. Poisons are a bad idea for the simple reason that they are poisonous and can harm your kids and pets. Poisons also tend to find their way into the water and soil which your edible crops take nourishment from which is obviously not what you wanted in the first place.

Poisons are also not as effective as we might think since they often target only a specific species. There are other animals that also damage your garden and frustrate home owners, and which the undesirable poisons and traps are ineffective against. Deer, birds, cats and dogs.. the list goes on.

Anyone who lives in an area where deer abound, knows that these lovely animals can be a severe nuisance and wreck vegetable gardens as well as decorative plants and trees. Although it is easy to scare deer, a normal scarecrow is totally ineffective because to them it is just another static part of the garden. The same is true of birds. You can have any number of flashing colorful banners flying from your fruit trees but the birds still manage to get most of the fruit.

And who wants to have their garden littered with reflective banners and ugly traditional scarecrows?

There is a solution to all of these problems in the shape of the modern scarecrow which is essentially a motion activated sprinkler such as the Contech Scarecrow Sprinkler. Scarecrow sprinklers have quickly become popular with residential homeowners as well as people living in more rural areas.

The scarecrow sprinkler is a eco friendly solution since the only power it utilizes is water pressure. All you need is a normal water tap. It is also a humane animal deterrent because there are no poisons, no traps and the animal is simply scared away. A scarecrow sprinkler is also more effctive than a traditional garden scarecrow because the spray of water it shoots has a powerful surprise effect and covers quite a bit of ground. The mechanism is simple, which also makes it very reliable and maintenance-free.

Usage is straightforward:
1) Conect the scarecrow sprinkler to a garden tap, for example via your garden hose.
2) Position it so that it covers an area you want to protect.
3) Open the tap. The scarecrow sprinkler is now “armed”. No water is used unless the mechanism fires.

If the motion detector in the scarecrow is activated the sprinkler shoots a quick spray of water that scares the offending animal away. This works on all kinds of animals, even birds and rodents.

If you decide to buy a Scarecrow Sprinkler we recommend you buy a established brand and model. Contech are marketleaders with their Contech Electronics CRO101 Scarecrow Motion Activated Sprinkler
. Hundreds of positive reviews on Amazon marketplce is a testament to the quality and popularity of the Contech Scarecrow Sprinkler
.

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Scarecrow Sprinklers work on all kinds of animals, from rodents and birds to bigger mamals like deer and all the way up to .. bear. Here is a short video from a private surveilance camera illustrating how the bear is effectively shooed from the residential grounds by a quick burst of water.

A Scarecrow Sprinkler system is fully automatic and both environmental and animal friendly.

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