I have been having a HUGE problem with birds crapping all over my deck and no matter what I do, they won't go away. I'm tired of hosing down my deck everyday so I bought this owl hoping it would do the trick and keep birds away - it didn't do a thing! Birds basically laughed at this "owl" and would sit right next to it and still make a mess! I moved it around everyday (as suggested) but the birds didn't care; they knew it was fake. Well, back to the store this goes. Don't bother buying this garbage.