(birds chirping)
(birds cawing)
(birds screeching)
-: Vertebrate pests are a real problem
for grape growers.
And what's a grape grower to do
when the birds swarm in and eat your grapes
or peck them, even if they don't eat them,
if they pick a hole in them,
the rots can have an entrance.
So it's important to keep the birds away.
A solar panel here--
Ron Hasket, of Whiskey Run Creek Vineyards,
has a bird scaring device.
And that was the music you heard
at the beginning of this video,
birds calling their distress calls
and also the hunting call of some
of the raptors that might attack these birds.
And so as grapes approach veraison,
or near ripening, as they begin to ripen,
then we have a problem of birds discovering them
and causing damage to the crop.
So, as you can see,
a solar panel-activated battery that runs
these bird songs, bird scaring, it's b--
There's several brands, bird guard, and some others.
And this one is a set up so that,
on a trailer, so that Ron can take them
into different parts of the vineyard.
So that the birds don't get used to
them being in one place.
So they don't become habituated, you might say.
(upbeat music)