Garden Netting - Bird Friendly?

I have a problem with sparrows eating my runner bean plants. Is there garden netting available that is bird friendly? i.e, birds do not get trapped in the netting?
or any other solutions to the problem?

 

It all depends on how you secure it and a small sized net.

 

I don't know how effective this is but I've seen people using those bright foil windmills, old CDs dangling on a string, and strips of foil on a string. Basically anything reflective that moves in the breeze. It's supposed to scare the birds off but as I said, I don't know how effective it is.

 

Any netting is fine as long as you check it every morning and night to free any trapped animals. All creatures will go for fruit so the netting is there to sort out what's yours and what's for them- responsibly freeing any potential intruders will keep them alive and your crops to you.

 

I don't like to use netting, prefer to use fleece., I use it to cover my ripening fruit without any problems.

Horticulture fleece – for effective plant protection - Horticulture Fleece fleece can also be used for scrog,to seep in and so is their design.

 

I usually use fleece for my potted blueberry plants but the rain doesn't get in and i have to keep taking it off to water. So i desided this year not to put it on and the black birds were well behaved with them, let me have a lot of them, must be because they discovered the hedgehog food that's in between the plants.

It all depends on what type of bean plants and if the pollinators need to get in. Some of the dwarf beans are self pollinating.

 

I have never had to rescue a bird from any of my netting, use a small size net and make sure it's tight as this helps to prevent the birds from getting tangled.

 

I use black scaffold* debris netting for all purposes such as butterfly, fruit cage, pigeon, even over the pond to try ( to catch) the bl**dy heron. We dont have sparrows here, but am surprised they are interested in runner beans at this time of the year; is it the blossoms they go for, or green/blackfly?
*Debris Netting Black | Crop Netting | Plant Fruit Cage Allotment Netting

 

Never had an issue of rain not penetrating the 'fine ' fleece.....except for now.

 

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