I'd use 1/2" EMT conduit, use some blocks cut from 4"x4" posts for the
corners. Just drill some 7/8" holes at right angles. Use the black
plastic mesh. Plenty strong to keep the birds out, easy to just drape
over the top and remove as necessary.

Grant Erwin wrote:

We grow strawberries, and the birds get a lot more than we do if we
don't net the beds. This year Karen built a raised strawberry bed about
3x10', and she now wants to put bird netting over it. It has to be
something you can also take the netting off of so you can work on the
bed, pick berries, etc.

I was thinking of a sort of quonset hut arrangement with some long
skinny whippy bendy things bent into half-hoops over the bed, and we
could just lay the bird net over the frame. I was thinking of something
like the stuff they make mobile ham antennas out of. Only problem is I
don't have a clue where to buy it. Green bamboo would be nice too, if it
will bend in a 3' diameter, doubt it would. I was thinking of heavy
electrical wire, but I don't have any, and 100' or so of say 6 gauge
copper would run some do-re-mi.

Ideas?

Grant Erwin
Kirkland, Washington