You'll also likely want to be on the lookout for hawks & eagles. Motion sensing
solar lights might help. You don't say what the dimensions of the colony are - some tree nets might help - or you could end up with birds trapped in the netting...
Shiny, metalic streamers strung across(party style), tube kites, old CDs...
I saw elsewhere, in permies, a
thread where they were talking about those air-dancing tubes - but that would require power, on top of your electric wire.