Years ago, we developed 43 acres starting with fencing, shed and...

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15/10/17

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Originally posted by spruik ↑

I built a new farm shed recently, and the local swallows loved to sleep up in the rafters. I wasn't fond of all the poo on the concrete floor though...

Then last year they decided to nest there also. My problem was that the shed was not finished and could not prevent them from coming in. They produced 3 lovely kids after having tossed one overboard in the early stages.

But the tons of poo on equipment and tools just wasn't fun.

Now that part of the shed is completed an no access by birds. But they decided to make a nest in the open part of the shed... had to make a decision to remove their nest before laying eggs.

Both birds came back repeatly wondering what the hell happened with their nest... Ohhh, I felt so horrible...

Now, months later, they still come back and fly around, sit and watch me (maybe for a chance to get back at me...) s

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Years ago, we developed 43 acres starting with fencing, shed and water tanks.

In one of the tanks, before it filled and the man hole cover was not put on, swallows nested in there, I was reluctant to destroy their mud nest, then they had babies and the amount of bird poop following was huge so put newspaper to catch some.
When they left, cleaned up in time to start catching rain water, but then had dozens roosting on my shed roof from where i caught the water.
Had to start scaring them away with owl statues, wooden cat cut outs, etc.
Just checked our Quakers, and have 7 eggs in one nest and 6 and 4 in 2 others, so a good start if they are fertile , hatch and survive.
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