A unusual seasonal problem.

Cornishman

Cornishman

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My Model A, another car and a car trailer all fit snugly in one of my barns. The trailer has to go in first, the Model A then sits on the trailer and the other car just fits in between the trailer and the door. As it's a big, old airy barn both cars are covered by dust sheets. Earlier in the week I was in the barn and noticed that the dust sheet covering the Ford had a new covering, bird sh1t. A pair of swallows have nested on one of the beams above the car and will be there for a fair while. There is no space to rearrange the cars so now there is a cardboard box on top of the dust sheet on top of the Ford which is itself on top of the trailer. A simple solution to a mucky problem.
 
Had a pair of barn swallows insistent on building a nest on the top of my garage door opener. Every time I opened the door they were in like a shot and working on building a nest. Even after pulling it down several times they just kept rebuilding it. I finally stopped them by putting a pop can into the nest. Problem solved. Don't get me wrong as I really like barn swallows but it just wasn't going to work well for either of us in the house garage.

Now on the other hand at my shop at work I have a nest box just outside the overhead door that a pair of tree swallows come back to every year. They love to line their nest with feathers. The female will fly into my shop and take feathers right out of my hand.
 
If I leave my garden house door ajar for awhile, the Danged Doves nest in it!!! Then I just let them "do their thing" & block the door open. SEE, I'm not such a "BAD GUY"--At my age, I "try" not to get too EXCITED---LOL
Bill Nature
 
Cornishman said:
My Model A, another car and a car trailer all fit snugly in one of my barns. The trailer has to go in first, the Model A then sits on the trailer and the other car just fits in between the trailer and the door. As it's a big, old airy barn both cars are covered by dust sheets. Earlier in the week I was in the barn and noticed that the dust sheet covering the Ford had a new covering, bird sh1t. A pair of swallows have nested on one of the beams above the car and will be there for a fair while. There is no space to rearrange the cars so now there is a cardboard box on top of the dust sheet on top of the Ford which is itself on top of the trailer. A simple solution to a mucky problem.
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Might want to line the box with plastic so the bird poo doesn't soak through and eat some paint.
 
Birds are A PIA around barns, BUT barn swallows eat their weight in bugs. Watch someone mowing a field for hay. The barn swallows aren't admiring the tractor.

Now pigeons are a different story, they are illegal aliens.
 
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