Uploaded October 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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You don’t see them very often nowadays but they served an extremely important purpose in days gone by.

I’d always assumed they were some sort of electrical gadget, too mysterious and complex for the layman to understand but that’s not the case.

The fittings, like large corks at intervals across the spans of wire are called 'game guards.' There’s nothing I could find online about these things so what better topic for a video.

They’re essentially Belisha beacons for birds and were known officially to the Postmaster-General as 'game guards' - round corks about three inches long and over an inch in diameter.

They were fitted along things like telephone wires in the way you see them here, for the purpose of warning birds of the danger ahead.