They will get used the shiny stuff too For 20 years been frying owls , rubber snakes , tin pie plates and foil , and eventually they always came back Finally has to line the upper part of my porch with netting to keep the away
Yikes! I hope that doesn’t happen here. Renting scaffolding to get up there is a pain. Strangely, the swallow that showed up this year gave up on the porch after 2 days. He must have found a back up spot pretty fast. 🤞🤞
Thank you. I have the same problem with bird nests. The pole is a good idea. I’ve heard that using the color blue like blue strips of paper tape or fabric keeps them away as well.
That could work. Just crystals with a light throwing reflections around should be a good deterrent. Once they lay eggs and have babies in the nests, they can't really move until the babies are ready to fly. So, you really have to stop them from nesting every year. Good luck!!
We have to wash it every day. We probably have dozens if not 30 or 40 barn, swallows, front and back of the home during the off-season after they migrate away, you can remove and clean the area where the nest was or is. That’s fine. They’ll rebuild it when they come back or they’ll ignore it and not use it and build somewhere else. They only sure far away to get rid of them or not have them is you have to take away shoulders ledges inside angles with places that can per take away their ability to nest and they will not come around.
how do you call them dangerous 🦧 they fly around my head every time I go out on the patio never hurt me yet I think they are really cool but then I always wanted to be a bird
Bird poop is not enough reason to disrupt barn swallows mating you could just use the poop as fertilizer it's a gift really up to you to appreciate it don't want it clean it every so often if you worried about it it's really is a shame they're beautiful and really important to provide balance outside with flying insects as well as frogs dragonfly's and bats it's either poop or the scurge id rather take the poop it's just how nature supposed to be dont be just fucking with it
Help! I’m having this exact problem now 😩😩. They won’t leave even after their babies are grown and flying around. We literally just put up those shiny twisty things and they still are trying to remedy above my door now. We are definitely getting an owl
I think it's harder to get rid of them once they have babies. They can't really move the babies so they stay no matter what. So sorry. Just be ready for next year with all of the deterrents. All of those babies are going to come to your house to build nests next year. Good luck!!
Ours are afraid of nothing. I squirt them with the water hose when they fly by and they come right back they mingle and sing chirp chat or right along with my wife we will be outside sitting around and they’re right there sitting beside us on their little ledge, it’s the same Generation each year coming back. the babies this year will come back and make babies next year and then they’ll go back home and probably pass and you know in the next or latest generation Comes back and the life cycle continues, but by the time the young leaves their nest and perch where they grow for their first flight they are used to us. They’ve been sitting around with us the whole time and they’ll come back next year and greet us.😊
The mbta needs to be revoked at least for home owners. Crazy how people will refuse to listen to and follow the laws set so they can be decent drivers on the road but when people violate a 100 year old out dated treaty that was only put in place for hunters people scream and cry like babies. These birds are complete and utter nuisances. Protect actual humans over these obnoxious animals.
