I want to know how you guys protect your figs from the birds.
When I started in figs, birds where only eating some of my dark figs, so It was ok for me. Then they started to eat all my dark figs. It was still ok, because I was getting the white figs. Now they are eating dark and white figs 2 or 3 days before rippening. They are driving me crazy. I can't eat any more VdB and other Turkey UNK dark fig I have. Also they haven't let me taste a well rippen Strawberry Verte, Alma, Lebanesse Red bass and LSU Scott. It's very frustrating. Today I made this to prevent the birds to get to the figs. It looks awful, but I think it will work. If someone have something better, please share it with me.

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Birdnet. Period.

Bird net for each tree, 1 cat for each yard, 1 dog for each yard (for squirrels)
BB gun.

You have to be an animal lover, or a fig lover, or share!  Only options.

This netting works well for trees that aren't huge.  I'd assume you want to birdnet every tree you want to eat any figs from.  Or try some organza bags to individually wrap your little treasures.

I do not net my fig trees, I raise trees to sell, fig production is secondary.  I do net one special plum tree, a red skinned, red meat that I believe is a Satsuma, not sure, I am sure I love it.  I have placed rubber snakes in some of my LSU fig trees, they seem to work okay, cheapest ones from WallyWorld.  I shoot squirrels with my BB gun (low power)

  I've used multiple avenues to safeguard the fruit...  organza bags at first appeared to be the perfect answer, (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00V66SMVQ/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o07_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 ) but they are a time-consuming royal pain in the rear to wrangle onto every fig, and many of my fruit out-grew even the extra-large size bags, and so they were impossible to remove the fig in one piece.

  The bird netting is difficult to deploy, expensive to use if you have very many trees, and impossible to remove without shredding the netting, so it's pretty much a disposable article.

  I found two methods of deterrent worked really well...   for trees seven ft tall and below, simple strips of old T-shirt material was very quick to wrap around the fig and branch, and it is pretty much as inexpensive as one could ask for. 

  Another route that worked perfectly, was the use of inflatable dancers set on timers for the hours of daylight.  https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ASSF6MQ?psc=1    

 

These are used by the vineyards here to safeguard the grapes, and they work just as wonderfully in my orchard.  And, while the retail price is pretty steep, averaging $269 or so, discounts appear quite often :  https://www.amazon.com/Inflatable-HQ-Tall-Puppet-Blower/dp/B00K34EAV8/ref=sr_1_18?ie=UTF8&qid=1490580314&sr=8-18-spons&keywords=20+air+dancer&psc=1

  I used one of these mark-downs that reduced the price to $60, and the ad included a Use-it-now coupon for $40 off...  so my delivered price was only $20 for each unit. (Blower and 2 dancers)

I was losing a lot of figs to birds. The bird nets are cheap at Lowe's, black ones are practically invisible, and they're not hard to use provided your trees aren't too tall. It helps a lot to have another person to assist you in keeping them untangled while you put them on. I had minimal trouble removing them from the trees later in the year mostly due to twig growth through the nets and will be able to use them again this year. I attached them with plastic zip ties.

You only have to net the trees that you want to eat figs from.  Balloons, CDs, plastic snakes, plastic owls, and any other "scare" tactic do work - - for a few days, and then the birds are back to business as usual.  You have to have a physical barrier that covers the tree 100%. If you drape the birdnet over the tree and there are openings between it and the ground, the birds WILL figure it out in a day or two.

The other alternative is to put netting over the whole orchard, if you don't want to do it tree by tree. ;-))

I've thought about making something like this out of PVC.  Wouldn't be hard.

I think if you go with a framed structure, you might as well go with insect screen.

For one tree or a bunch of trees.

I had tried hanging cds and other things. Once birds know a food source they will learn quickly to get around fear of such things, like pitangadiego said. The nets were the only thing that worked. It was great to finally get to enjoy more than a couple of figs a year. I didn't use a frame, just hung the nets loosely over the trees and zip-tied the bottom to the tree.

Ok guys, appreciate all the information. I was hoping for a more easier way, but it's seems that's it's not one.

This year i ate almost all the figs from my trees thanks to my improvised bird scarer - build something similar and try it. It works for me even for the more isolated trees i have.

I shoot my shotgun sometimes hitting some times not but its like a hunted out area. They learn to go elsewhere. I live in the country so i can do this. In the evening after work shoot one shell. Done

I like the organza bags for figs......takes maybe 10 seconds to put on and it keeps birds, squirrels and wasps off my figs, some larger figs may require cutting the bag open. That is fine with me! I have lots of small trees, would not work for all. As to the bird netting it is a royal PIA! I lost count of the birds with injured legs I had to rescue and hope they recovered. I covered my Natchez Blackberry as it was the first to produce and had the same problem with rescuing birds. So I did not cover my others but they stayed away for some reason. Bad experience with the net? So my dilema is I will not injure an animal to save my fruit and the bags do that and to me the time spent is well worth a perfectly ripe and flawless fig in a bag! Again, my trees will remain trimmed to 6-7 foot so it is easy for me to do. I have also started to get rid of my Red Raspberries and replacing them with Gold as the color makes them almost bird proof. I am starting to cut down on the dark figs, the white and yellow are ignored by the birds. 

I have planted some plants for the critters..........A Brown Turkey and some unknown black and brown figs trees will be relocated to a utility access area behind my fence along with Mulberry trees and some grape vines. I have a sacrificial strawberry bed 3 x 20 foot under the Blackberries for critters. MY strawberries are in hanging baskets to keep the squirrels and rabbits out, the Red Raspberries will also be sacrificial crops. So far it seems to work,the easy pickings tend to keep wild transient birds happy, the ones nesting locally will still try to outsmart me every year. My Blueberries are another story I am working on......I have three Pink Blueberries that will bear this year, I suspect the birds will leave them alone but how will they taste? I could do a "Snoopy" happy dance with Spring here!