The conversation went something like this:
ME: 'Look, I am putting up this string and hanging some shiny CDs on it to scare the birds away.'
TINY HUMAN: 'Ooh, can I help?'
ME: 'Yes of course.'
[Tiny Human then potters off and spends quite a while digging a hole to put a piece of bamboo cane in. She then soaks the ground with several watering cans of water, and smooths it with a broom.]
TINY HUMAN: "Look Dad, the bird will see that shiny disc, and go "arrgh" and fly off, but he'll fly into this stick, and fall into the mud and get stuck. It's bird-mud."
TINY HUMAN: "Look Dad, the bird will see that shiny disc, and go "arrgh" and fly off, but he'll fly into this stick, and fall into the mud and get stuck. It's bird-mud."
ME: 'Oh. Well done, I would never have thought of that.'
After that, we picked strawberries.
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Alternative way to scare birds: sit in the garden reading a book with your legs crossed. Robin comes and lands on your upper foot and then flaps off in a panic when you jump in surprise. He didn't say 'arggh' but you could tell he was thinking it.
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