The Big Cheese Wind-Action Owl Realistic, Humane Decoy Deterrent, Scares Birds from Gardens, Boats, and Vulnerable Buildings with Rotatable Head and Reflective, Life-Like Eyes

I was getting pretty fed up having to clean our top floor flat roof windows as I could only open them about 10 inches. To clean them I have been using a strong dowble sided magnetic window cleaner on a ladder inside the room. To clean four windows takes me about 1.5hrs and a very stiff neck and back. It seems as though local seagulls love sunbathing and depositing on the windows. After having just cleaned them and one day later they were covered in seagull deposits I looked for something to help. I found these imitation owls but was a bit sceptical. We are in a windy area so I purchased two owls, two breeze blocks from B&Q, 1 metre threaded rod with nuts, large washers and some concrete mix. Filled the owls body with fast setting concrete through the bottom. Inserted some threaded screw through the bottom and into the concrete and let it set. Then drilled a hole through the breeze block and but a counter sunk hole on the bottom of the block to accomodate the washers and nuts. The first time mounted on the roof I found the head did not move enough so cut out a plastic box lid in the shape of a vane, painted it black and mounted it on the beck of the owls neck. Then up the internal ladder with difficulty pushing out the breeze block through the window gap then mounted the owl onto the breeze block and tightened the owl to the block. I have put one owl at each end of the windows ie two and now three months in not a single seagull or pigeon mess on the glass. Seriously I am overjoyed at the effectiveness of this solution. We have named them Ollie & ‘Oward our new owl friends.

Absolutely useless pigeon deterrent. Tried it in different positions, even to within a foot of where they were nesting and they were back within an hour. I have now tried everything mentioned online - silvery moving things, white flapping plastic bags... only thing that works is me going up to them and shouting. Eventually I took the ladders out of the passage and stood them up. Have cleared enough twigs to build a bonfire and two smashed eggs - I canot understand how something so stupid manages to breed and spread.

Nice ornament but does not frighten the pigeons

Not sure how effective this is but the head moves in the wind, giving the impression that it is a real bird

This is a must for any garden 5 starsIt is what it sayes on the box !!!Perfect , I will be buying another one as I have a large garden .

I first put it up and after the first two days of use there was still lots of fresh new pigeon poo all over the affected area.The owl is large and the head does not really turn unless there are strong bursts of wind. That said I later put up three ultra sonic repellants with a frequency targeted at birds.Since I have paired this with the owl there has been no new fresh pigeon poo and I am really hoping this could be the end of the nuisance birds.

Very realistic even my dog is scared of it so hopefully works for the pests in the garden

Waste of money, ineffective.