Swallow problem

[ratface]

I bought some cheap rubber snakes and put them in the old nest, can't tell you if they work, I felt bad for them and removed the snakes. Never had one nest next to a snake but they were only in a couple months. A 12 pack on amazon was under ten bucks.

 

[shaun wallace]

I have noticed that they usually nest only once at most locations. Go somewhere next year.

 

[showcrop]

I have had very good luck with fishing line as suggested by double07. They can't stand flying into something that they can't see.

 

[Texasmark]

My problem is a little Wren...cute little energetic spider eater. She has been back every year for the last 4 years give or take. She sneaks into my shop and loves to build her nests in the top of my tool boxes. Then she roosts on the roof W truss cross beams and poops on my truck. I'm amazed at how small a crack she can get through doing her entering and exiting when the shop is closed up.

 

[Texasmark]

My problem is a little Wren...cute little energetic spider eater. She has been back every year for the last 4 years give or take. She sneaks into my shop and loves to build her nests in the top of my tool boxes. Then she roosts on the roof W truss cross beams and poops on my truck. I'm amazed at how small a crack she can get through doing her entering and exiting when the shop is closed up.

I have swallows too and they do as you say but their nests are such that they don't pose a nuisance to me. After the squabs develop the ability to fly, they sit on the fence when I go to the field and as I approach on the tractor, they move up 20ish feet and we repeat the process. Then once working the field, they are right there diving and darting around me picking up whaterver. I like to watch them get a drink from the pond. Find it amazing that they can fly close enough to the water to open their bills and scoop up a drink without the tips of the wings getting wet.

 

[da.bees]

An expedient (easy to set up and take down) ,inexpensive and multi-use solution is bird netting. It's cheaper and available in any size is monofilament fish netting. Basically suspend it to cover underside of port preventing birds reaching purlins. Down side is a bird occasionally becomes entangled,injured or dead before you can rescue it. Can get you in big trouble if you have women and kids around.

 

[Smalltowner]

Keep knocking their nest down. They will go elsewhere to build. Do it before there are eggs.

Yep that’s the best solution.

 

[NoDakInMN]

A few years back, a bridge or barn must have gotten knocked down because my Mom's house suddenly was the target of hundreds of swallows. After many different attempts at different methods, the one thing that kept them away was stapling plastic grocery sacks under the eaves and gables where the wind could move them. The swallows did not like that at all and moved on to somewhere else.

 

[buickanddeere]

used to have the wee creatures nesting around here and catching bugs by the thousands .
They barn swallows never bothered me but they dive bombed Mrs B&D when ever she was outside .

 

[buickanddeere]

Bridge work delayed four months because a bird watcher seen some empty nests . This " degree of caution" has occurred also at other job sites.
https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.1411607

 

[Texasmark]

used to have the wee creatures nesting around here and catching bugs by the thousands .
They barn swallows never bothered me but they dive bombed Mrs B&D when ever she was outside .

Really? Any idea as to why?

 

[flying belgian]

Bridge work delayed four months because a bird watcher seen some empty nests .
https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.1411607

Good grief.

 

[buickanddeere]

Really? Any idea as to why?

I asked the birds but they weren't talking .