Don't Build Here . . .

nesting deterrent
May 2021

For the second year in a row, a pair of doves have tried multiple times to build nests on the top of my patio lights. I got tired of picking up the twigs, etc., so I used a tip from Brenda: tying a grocery sack around the light. 

It worked! No more mess and no more frustrated birds. 

I'll remove the bags later this week. 


Comments

  1. How clever! Nesting birds do make a mess. I wish it was that easy to discourage the bugs from around my outside lights. It's a bug massacre out there every night and I'm tired of cleaning it up.

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  2. I know someone else who did this in in Wisconsin and it worked!!!!!

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  3. Good idea.

    We had doves that always built at the tip of a palm frond in our back yard. Well, one good storm and you can guess what happened to that nest.

    Then they built in the rain gutter right over the downspout. Yep ..............washed out again!

    Not the brightest birds in the nest.

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  4. That was a great idea. I would probaly have just kept shooing them away and they never would have gone.
    Blessings,
    Betsy

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  5. Good idea--we get persistent wrens about three times each year so I sympathize!

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  6. Never seen that before. We had a robin's nest under the deck. They used to give me the evil eye when I walked out on the deck. We think the babies are older and maybe the nest is empty. It's hard to see in the nest.

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