Birds in my shop

[Graeme / New Zealand]

Originally Posted by Binx

I'm at war with swallows this week as well.

Lonnie

If a white stork brings white babies and a black stork brings black babies.....what brings no babies?

GB

[Tony, NY]

Around here, I would have to have a screened framework of some kind to keep the mosquitoes out. Don't you have those pesky bugs down there?

[Ralph Moore]

The swallows build their mud nests in the upper corners of the roll up doors at our shop. And every time we open the doors it breaks the mud nest in half. Problem solved!

[Walt Dupont--Me.]

I use my black lab. She almost tears my shop apart trying to catch a chip monk. Walt

[D. Jones]

You might try buying bird netting like they use to keep birds off strawberry's and fruit trees. It should be cheap and relatively easy to hang in front of your doors. We use it to keep the swallows from nesting in outdoor picnic shelters.

[done4]

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Keeping the doors open only invites the creatures in, close the damn doors at night. Problem solved!

[1938 Coupe]

Originally Posted by Pete

Try hanging a plastic owl in the garage.
It works on crows here.

A friend of mine house was getting drilled with holes from woodpeckers. It was a summer house so he bought plastic owls and hung them everywhere around the eves. When he returned after a month the plastic owls had holes drilled in them and so did the house!

[expavr]

Originally Posted by D. Jones

You might try buying bird netting like they use to keep birds off strawberry's and fruit trees. It should be cheap and relatively easy to hang in front of your doors. We use it to keep the swallows from nesting in outdoor picnic shelters.

This is what I use to keep the bats from nesting in my shop. Very effective.

[Vic Piano]

Hang a Chevrolet Parts & Service sign in the doorway... That'll keep most everything out... LOL

[5851a]

Guy in town here had to parked under a tree in driveway. He nailed a stuffed toy cat on a limb with tail swing in the breeze and said that worked.

[Andy]

I had some wrens wanting to nest in my garage. I made them a litte bird house and put it by the door. They nested there for several years.

[Willit Stop]

I've heard that 1/4 inch strips of Mylar works.If it doesn't,at least it's pretty.

[glennsanders]

Home depot has shinny spinning things in there flower department to keep birds away. Did not see any birds when I was their.

[Ralph Moore]

I forgot to mention in my shop it's not the birds , but the squirrels I have to worry about!
When's the last time a wren chewed a three inch hole in a wall. Or ripped all the insulation up trying to build a nest!
Last week I had one fall down inside the furnace exhaust pipe, I could hear him scratching around and he couldn't get out.
All I could think about was the smell of dead squirrel all winter. I tried everything to get him out, but finally I just took the cap off and stuck a long stick in it. He crawled out in his own.

[Heard]

Originally Posted by Drbrown

How about a full-sized photo of my Mother-in-Law ?

Man, you are so screwed if your MIL reads that!

[jack99]

BB gun

[Chisel]

I have a lot of goofy birds walk into my shop when the door is open. These old buzzards sit down around the potbelly stove and stay till the lights go out.

[3quarter32]

We used to keep a 5' blacksnake in our construction shop. Kept birds and rodents at bay. Every now and then while digging for bolts in our under the counter bolt stash, someone or myself would grab the snake. Didn't take me long to scream like a woman and let go. I had an dummy owl with a rotating head that worked for about 3 weeks. After that, I saw a bird sitting on the head riding like a merry go round.

[Tim Ayers]

Originally Posted by 39portlander

A few years back when looking for the small window/door security devices, I remember a product that you plugged into an outlet and it gave off a signal that claimed to keep rodents, ect. out of that signal area. It may work on our feathered friends as well.

The problem on my street are the cats, you know how they like to "spray". Cat urine is the most vile smell in the summer sun, on your white walls.

That device doesn't work. My dad had one and one night I came out and there was a mouse sitting right next to it. Maybe his was defective, but that seems like snake oil to me.

[Tim Ayers]

Originally Posted by 1938 Coupe

A friend of mine house was getting drilled with holes from woodpeckers. It was a summer house so he bought plastic owls and hung them everywhere around the eves. When he returned after a month the plastic owls had holes drilled in them and so did the house!

Well, your buddy should take that as a sign for the woodpecker is going after bugs that are eating his wood. Whether it's carpenter bees, ants, termites, etc. Once they know they are there, they'll destroy the wood in order to keep them.

They are real interesting bird.