MossRoad
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- Joined
- Aug 31, 2001
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- Location
- South Bend, Indiana (near)
- Tractor
- Power Trac PT425 2001 Model Year
We have barn swallows that try to next under out eaves and on our lamp, etc... we taped 1" wide strips of aluminum foil to the ceiling hanging down around the lamp about every 3-4 inches. That did the trick. They fly up, the foil flutters around and touches them and they do not like it at all. It has kept them at bay the last 3 years.
Works great! :thumbsup:
(looks like #$@%%!!!) :laughing:
The thing about barn swallows is they are mud nest builders. If you put up chicken wire, they'll stick their mud right to it. I used to have a nice thermometer under our porch eaves. I had to take it down because of the swallows. Now that I know the foil strips work, I may put it back up.
We have wrens in a wren house on our unattached garage.
Robins and doves come to the same nest in a grapevine wreath on the side. Kinda weird that the doves will use the robin nest and vice versa. It just depends who stakes their claim first each spring. The robins raise two sets of babies each year. I saw the doves trying to next in the gutter yesterday. Very stupid birds. First rain and their eggs will soak. They also nest on the ground. Then they hang around our back door all year. Cardinals try to nest in our clematis vines each year but end up abandoning the nest due to our comings and goings at night. They fly off in the dark if we go in or out the door and don't come back until morning. The eggs never hatch.
Works great! :thumbsup:
(looks like #$@%%!!!) :laughing:
The thing about barn swallows is they are mud nest builders. If you put up chicken wire, they'll stick their mud right to it. I used to have a nice thermometer under our porch eaves. I had to take it down because of the swallows. Now that I know the foil strips work, I may put it back up.
We have wrens in a wren house on our unattached garage.
Robins and doves come to the same nest in a grapevine wreath on the side. Kinda weird that the doves will use the robin nest and vice versa. It just depends who stakes their claim first each spring. The robins raise two sets of babies each year. I saw the doves trying to next in the gutter yesterday. Very stupid birds. First rain and their eggs will soak. They also nest on the ground. Then they hang around our back door all year. Cardinals try to nest in our clematis vines each year but end up abandoning the nest due to our comings and goings at night. They fly off in the dark if we go in or out the door and don't come back until morning. The eggs never hatch.
