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 Re: How keep brigade swallows out of boat slip ?
[Re: Mo]
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06/15/20 06:20 PM
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Thanks for all the ideas. Ordered bird netting , will give that a try.
MO Bird netting may work if you make a false ceiling spanning the entire area so they can't fly up there . If it's just in certain areas you run the risk of trapping birds , snakes , etc. The best way (IME) is to keep knocking down the nests before they lay eggs . that is the plan , the nesting phase is over for this year , hopefully , babies are gone. will they nest again this Year ? they are still roosting over the boat. Mo Not sure when bridge swallows migrate but I wouldn't take any chances . If they're still hanging around the nests there's always the possibility of another clutch . Purple Martins and barn swallows will occasionally fledge two sets of chicks . We still have a lot of summer left .
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Re: How keep brigade swallows out of boat slip ?
[Re: Mo]
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06/15/20 07:36 PM
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Two years ago I smeared Vaseline on the beams where the birds built their nests. Haven't had a nest since. Slips on both sides of mine have nests.
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Re: How keep brigade swallows out of boat slip ?
[Re: sdavis24]
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06/15/20 07:47 PM
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JJ4MEL
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By me people hang/staple 12" long strips of chrome or silver ribbons in the rafters above and it seems to work. I think the way they move around in the breeze deters them? Looks like the stuff you'd get at a crafts store, maybe 1" wide. This is what they do in our neighborhood and works.
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Re: How keep brigade swallows out of boat slip ?
[Re: Mo]
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06/15/20 10:09 PM
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Hang Walmart bags in there , that don't like something moving.
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Re: How keep brigade swallows out of boat slip ?
[Re: Mo]
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06/16/20 02:01 AM
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Topwater2
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When you think they are done roosting......they are not. Lizards!!
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Re: How keep brigade swallows out of boat slip ?
[Re: JJ4MEL]
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06/16/20 05:33 PM
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Rocky Robison
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Buy a pack of cheap blank cd/dvds and hang them up. Or this By me people hang/staple 12" long strips of chrome or silver ribbons in the rafters above and it seems to work. I think the way they move around in the breeze deters them? Looks like the stuff you'd get at a crafts store, maybe 1" wide. This is what they do in our neighborhood and works.
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