David Combs wrote:
Our bedroom A/C -- damn birds like it.

Turning it on does nothing to them -- they remain.

ASIDE:
When I lived in an appartment, with balcony, a pigeon pair
took to it. Then they built a nest, complete with eggs.

I knew full well that once those chicks grew up and wanted
to have their own nests, that they'd come right back *there*.
There'd be NO getting rid of them, then.

SO, I got my trusty tennis racket, went out there, and killed
the two doves, and tossed the eggs.

PROBLEM SOLVED.

(Yes, friend inside watching me was a bit, uh, shocked! :-) )


END ASIDE:

Now that I'm living in a house, with a/c facing the back-yard
(huge slope down away from house) and on the 3rd floor, it is
pretty dangerous, at least for me (don't like heights, edges
of cliffs, etc), to put up a ladder (a LONG ladder) and climb
up and do what's needed.

MY QUESTION:

How to get rid of THESE birds, and for the future, how to keep
them from coming back?

Well, how about spreading some lye on everything? Or spraying
poison all over the inside, enough to drift out the back
and settle there too. THAT would work just fine! RIGHT?


Only problem is that there'd be no one left inside to appreciate
the lack of birds. :-(


Ideas?

David



One of the outdoor restaurants we frequent uses nylon line to keep the
gulls and other birds away. They have the line strung so that it forms
about 4" web. Haven't seen a bird in there since it was put in place.

There is another bird here - dark brown/black with gray, about the size
of a robin, that used to steal artificial sweetener packets from the
tables at another restaurant...they would grab one, take it over to a
puddle to soften the package and lap it up. Gulls are relentless, can
steal food from your hand. The wading birds line up for snacks before
one can get bait on a fishing line - they just show up whenever we fish
from our dock and wait around for the catch.