Swallows thwarted!

[ruffdog]

The neighbor hangs a big sheet of plastic in the shed. It allows the birds to nest but protects the RV, tractors, baler, and other equipment.

 

[riptides]

The neighbor hangs a big sheet of plastic in the shed. It allows the birds to nest but protects the RV, tractors, baler, and other equipment.

When you have large barns and tens of nests, waste management is an issue. Especially so when it's on food for livestock. Then you also have the annoying "protect" the nest behavior of those birds. Swooping your livestock, people and barn animals, also causing issues.

 

[ovrszd]

Birds aren't allowed to nest in any of my buildings.

 

[Sigarms]

The neighbor hangs a big sheet of plastic in the shed. It allows the birds to nest but protects the RV, tractors, baler, and other equipment.

Wow, imagine that. Using the human brain so you don't get pissed off at an animal and you don't have to kill it just because you're the "superior species"!

 

[ovrszd]

Wow, imagine that. Using the human brain so you don't get pissed off at an animal and you don't have to kill it just because you're the "superior species"!

That's so silly. Even for you.

 

[radios1]

I use a laser to scare birds away, it scares the heck out of them.

 

[ovrszd]

I use a laser to scare birds away, it scares the heck out of them.

I've never tried that. Most birds don't like my Drone.

 

[ruffdog]

At work we had a large storage building that was infested with nesting starlings. The birds came in the open doors and nested in the insulation in the walls and ceiling. They installed one of these electronic devices in the middle of the ceiling and the birds were GONE. Very cool!

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[pmsmechanic]

Barn swallows can nest on my yard all they want. I don't like the mess but I like the fact that they clean up mosquito's. Good idea to just use some sawdust under the nesting area.

 

[drssg]

I guess I'm just a bleeding heart, and the birds in the barn don't bother me. We have tons of starlings and barn swallows. They make a mess, but not near what the horses do. The fledglings get themselves stuck behind the kickboards for the stalls. If I hear them fluttering around, I'll fish them out with a long-handled net. Sometimes, they'll hop onto my shoulder for a while after I fish them out. At that age, I guess they latch onto anything.

 

[ovrszd]

I guess I'm just a bleeding heart, and the birds in the barn don't bother me. We have tons of starlings and barn swallows. They make a mess, but not near what the horses do. The fledglings get themselves stuck behind the kickboards for the stalls. If I hear them fluttering around, I'll fish them out with a long-handled net. Sometimes, they'll hop onto my shoulder for a while after I fish them out. At that age, I guess they latch onto anything.

My preferred method of nesting deterrent is to tear down the nest as it's built. With Barn Swallows that may go on for a couple months.

 

[oosik]

NO - drssg. You are a GOOD person - not a bleeding heart. I have a GREAT number of Red Wing Blackbirds here. Also the occasional yellow wing and orange wing mix. I will get a few starlings but they are chased away by the Blackbirds. I guess they aren't friends.