How to stop birds pooping all over the trampoline

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Birds are perching on the top rail of our trampoline enclosure & pooping all over it. Its all down the sides of the net & on the mat too - am fed up of having to clean it off before the kids can play. Does anyone know of any way to stop them?! Tia

my two ideas are tie ballons or,if possible, wrap bubble wrap round the rail as I think birds prefer something solid and smooth to sit on .

You can get plastic bird spikes that can be applied with adhesive, would they do the trick?

Teach the cat to trampoline? A bit like the John Lewis advert.

Or failing that, how about a decoy owl, or one of the kites that looks like a buzzard designed to scare birds away tied to the top?

I read that as one of the kids who look like a buzzard

Hang up some washing near the trampoline. The birds in my garden always aim for that.

Get a cat.

Anti - aircraft gun? Watching with interest as heading towards getting a trampoline.

We had a trampoline underneath an enormous tree which housed hordes of birds, so we ended up tying a tarpaulin over the trampoline which was very popular as it became a den as well. Obv only works if kids are small enough.

Don't bother with a cat, birds come to our garden specifically to sit just out of reach and taunt our cats.

I put some plastic toy snakes in my garden to keep the birds away as they were eating my grass seeds. Seems to have worked!

We have one of these

jumpforfun.co.uk/product/trampoline-play-roofs/

Always have a clean trampoline and they bounce in all weathers. We wouldn't be without it!

Whoknows we have cats living all around us, they are always in our garden so don't think that'll stop it!

ShangriLaLa that is a fabulous idea. Unfortunately we have a plum magnitude which they don't fit. But will def research if plum do something similar.

That or resort to snakes/anti bird strip!

Thankyou everyone!

I have this problem too since DH moved our trampoline under the trees at the back of the garden. He says - and I can see his point - that he is fed up of constantly moving it all around the garden so it doesn't kill the grass. But it is now so covered with bird shit that the kids won't go on it and nor should they. I have cleaned it two or three times but it just gets covered again. DH's contribution was to put a an old sheet over the trampoline but it has got rucked up precisely where the birds do their stuff so half is now covered by a clean sheet and half with bird mess.

Getting cats really did work for us, we used to have a terrible problem with pigeon poo, now they don't come anywhere near, but it is drastic. We have bark chippings under our trampoline, not grass.

We don't have cats but all our neighbours do so there is almost always one hanging around (and their poo is another story!). It doesn't seem to deter the poo-y pigeons.

The bird spikes do work well, we attached them using cable ties. I'm sure they came from amazon or somewhere easy.

Just seen this old post, we have had the same problem and this year added these plastic trampoline flexible combs to the top....its been three months now and not one poop!! Yay!! We got ours from Ebay, seach 'Trampoline Bird Spikes', you can order them to size. Brilliant. Completely safe to birds too, just deters them from landing there.