There are so many things I want to write about right now that I'm having a hard time keeping up. Mostly they're the "I don't want to forget this" type things so probably I should put priority on writing them down, but today I have a more pressing issue.
Birds.
When we bought our house and moved in last late spring a bird had built her nest in the beautiful stained glass porch light fixture. Since it was pretty late in the season when we realized why the light was so dark we didn't touch it, but waited for her little birds to hatch. Turns out we were too late on the up take and either all the viable eggs had already hatched or we cooked all her eggs. We couldn't tell when we finally got up there and cleaned all that nasty out. (And when I say "we" I really mean Dan, because eww.)
A few days ago I noticed that the fixture was hanging crooked and thought the wind must have blown it funky. Then this morning I found the culprit. The birds are back. Mommy and Daddy are busily building their nest and they've not been neat about it either. Also, they're really bold. I went out onto the porch and tried to yell at them to scare them away and they just stayed there looking at me like, "Whatcha gonna do 'bout it lady?"
So I'll tell you what I'm going to do about it. I'm going to huff and I'm going to puff and I'm going to pass this job off onto my husband. I hope they haven't yet laid their eggs because I really don't want to go all spring without a porch light. We care about animals, but not that much.
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You might have to take the glass off the fixture for awhile. We had a robin build her nest on one of the wreathes on our front door (it was so well designed & attached it is still there in the wreathe). She returned to the porch to look for it the next spring. When she couldn't find the wreathe, she built in the rain gutter above the porch. Good luck!
Swallows used to build their mud nests in the corner of the overhang over my mom's front door. She would wipe some ammonia over the area after she knocked it down to discourage them. It worked.
I would imagine ammonia would work to deter other birds as well.
Another option, a fake owl.
My parking space is under a tree, and one month out of the year birds sit up there and drop on my car. I got a fake owl from Ace Hardware - and hung it in the tree. No more droppings.
See. I really do know a minute/thirty about everything!
(one minute, 30 seconds - it's a news reporter thing!!)
The birds are in full effect here too! Right now our sliding glass door is open and I can hear them. Their nest do appear over night!
I park service in Utah hangs plastic grocery sacks in areas where they don't want birds to build their nests. It seems to work.Grndma Jane
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