HawkEyes

My chickens free-range near a wooded area and I was worried about hawks circling overhead. These flexible plastic eyes with Velcro are so big and realistic that the birds seem to keep their distance now, and it only took a couple minutes to strap them onto the fence posts.

Strapped these onto the coop door before letting the hens out, and the Velcro held firm even through a windy morning. The eyes are big enough that the local hawk circled once and took off — haven't seen it since.

The flexible plastic is stiff enough to bend around my coop's support beams, and the Velcro strips seem sturdy so far. That said, the eyes are a bit smaller than I pictured from the photos, so I'm not sure a determined hawk will get the full scare effect from a distance.