Protection from birds

[blue-and-green]

Hi all, i am looking for ideas on protecting my strawberries and in future other fruits from birds. Has anyone bought bird protection netting or similar before or use anything else for this? I looked on www.kingsseeds.com, they have bird netting, but i am not paying £60 for 50m which i wont use. I was thinking more of something with a cup-shape to put over. maybe get some chicken wire and bend it myself?!
it would be good to have some strawberries for ourselves this year.

[heebiejeebie]

I'm going to use some left over aviary mesh bent into shape for mine!

[rustylady]

Went to our local pound shop and found fine mesh green netting - two pieces (quite large) for £1. Simply support with short canes with a flower pot or bottle on top to stop the netting falling down, and peg into the ground.

[Alice]

You can do as Rustylady suggests, or you can buy bird protection net here, by the metre.
http://www.harrodhorticultural.com/H...FQNQEgodhxTbSA

[dinah gale]

I have made a rough but effective frame with short cane and wire and chucked pond netting over it secured at the edges with some lengths of timber I had lying around.

Pond netting is cheap and I've found it much easier to handle, and is stronger, than plastic netting which has always got into a real tangle in my experience.

The strawbs are completely protected and this year they're mine, all mine!