Would You Kill'em?

It was not but 5 days ago that I got rid of a bird nest on the front porch.
I had to wait until the 3 babies were full grown and flew away.

A pair of finches are using our front porch ledge to nest, and, they dump nonstop all the way left and right along the sidewalk.
I had to spray to clean it off, then 5 days ago I removed the nest.

Yesterday, we discovered the two birds had rebuilt the nest, and now it has eggs in it.
It's the dark spot up in the corner.

NOOOO! More time and waste!

Would you remove the nest and toss the eggs?
That's my question, leave them alone or be a murderer?

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Leave em.

Make a little poop catcher and hang it under the nest.

I would chase them off. I had some persistent scissor tails building a nest under our porch years ago. I would hose off their nest every day. Finally, I cleaned off the siding and sprayed some silicone spray lube. They couldn't get their nest stuff to stick to it and left.

Hose the nest off. They will find someplace else to build. Bird poop is filthy nasty.

do like Bob says..live and let live

If they eat mosquitos, flies, snakes, or wasps, they live.

I faced the same dilemma. I pulled the nest, killed the babies and hosed off where the nest was. They started a rebuild in another corner and I hosed it off. Haven't been back in awhile so i'm not sure where I'm at with them now.

JR

Very bad luck.
Leave them be.

The problems is that there are "new eggs" already in the nest.

I like nesting birds, but not where we sit and walk.

I'll ask the others in the house and see what they say, or maybe not.
I'll just decide on my own.

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This absolutely

I can see this is a very divisive topic.

I cannot stand walking outside and seeing bird waste on the sidewalk and chairs.

This is where I take my senior parents out on nice days, which is daily.

I think I may have made my decision.

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Yep, that poop is insects mostly. I leave the swallows alone on the porch, they eat more mosquitoes than martins. I hate mud daubers but they keep the spiders in check.

Is a poop catcher under the nest not an option?

Leave them be

A scooper for two finches?

No, a scooper is NOT an option.

Thanks for the responses.
I do love Mother Nature and all God's creatures...

...except pigs, rodents and monkeys!

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Get you a big concrete owl and put it on the porch and no birds will come back....

I couldn't kill em.

It’s a barn swallow . Good luck I’ve heard rubber snakes , moth balls, owl idk having the same problem . Tore the nest down this past weekand

Leave them be. They do more good than harm. I wouldn't worry about having to spray poop down. They're roosting there is proof we're taking away their natural habitat.

Our back patio has 3 nests and they come back yearly. I leave them alone and they grace me with taking care of bugs and something to do on the weekends.

We already have a scary, one-eyed owl on the porch.

It's only good for Halloween month!

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go to home depot and get some of these, they work.

glue one vertical in ea corner and anywhere they may want to build, they are 1' long and 10 per pak.

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Bird-X-...pikes-Bird-Control-Kit-SP-10-N/206508418

Once a critter becomes a nuisance, its toast around my house. I have little patience for bird poop.

You've got a giant porch. I'd move the chairs down there somewhere else for a couple of weeks. Spray the poop off every couple days. It's a two minute job and a good dead. Critters have a hard enough time these days, I would hate to make it harder on them.

Worst case relocate the nest to some place obvious and close by. They will almost certainly be abandoned, but I guess you are putting it in the good lords hands.

Eat the fresh eggs and see if it keeps producing

we use to have woodpeckers peck holes in stucco between 3,000-5,000 a year for a couple years we did everything to stop it that everyone said. I found the best cure for woodpeckers was a 17HMR no more damage after that. We all have to make choices

Leave 'em be... It's only a month or so out of the year... The rest of the time they'll help keep the bug population under control...

Leave them.

Once the babies leave the nest, remove the nest and block it so they cannot build again.

If they are bluejays... murk em. If not, let em alone.

With a hammer

I had the same problem with robins in my arbor a few years ago, I put a couple of rubber snakes right where they were building and they went elsewhere

I agree, they won't be there forever. Remember, it is not nice to mess with Mother Nature.

I had that same problem. After they’re gone apply this to that lip
https://www.birdbgone.com/bird-off-gel/

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I had sparrows building nests in these after putting them up to stop the pigeons from roosting! I think the sparrows were were worst then the pigeons.

As we rapidly destroy all of Gods creations and as we rapidly destroy the planet the only viable option would be to tear the house down and move it and leave that corner standing so the birds will survive.

i didn't know you actually cared
cheers

Is the "human scent" real, or an old tall-tale?

If you touch the eggs or nest, will the parents abandoned the young due to human scent?

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420 is over ya tree huggin hippies get rid of em they got plenty of trees

Google says they will probably abandon it if moved, but there is a chance. Google also says moving or destroying the nest is a misdemeanor crime.

The federal Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 guarantees federal protection to nongame birds, their eggs and nests. “No person may destroy or take the nest, eggs, or young of any wild game bird, wild bird, or wild fowl protected by this code except as provided in this code,” Parks and Wildlife Code Ch. 64 reads.

BB gun and a broom.

i have been driving around thinking about this
why kill the poor birds
its a minor inconvenience

that means your living right if they pick your home

Yes. I like this idea.

I had pickled quail eggs once. Not bad.

Toss the eggs and replace them with some little turd balls and see how they like it.

I had the bird issue once and only once. Pulled a couple of lizards out of the tackle box, pinned them down around the nest building area and problem solved. They left and they didn't come back (mine didn't) but yours might be a little more persistent.

Thanks for the responses dudezzz!

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But don’t post it on a forum, it’s against federal law to remove nests or harass birds.

“The federal Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 guarantees federal protection to nongame birds, their eggs and nests.”

I'm with hop,Tannerite is a cure for all critter problems. Bet he knows a good carpenter also.

I place odd shaped objects in the corners so they can't build a nest. Works.

Luckily NO birds or eggs were harmed in the writing of this "faux" topic about birds and nests.

I support our two-winged friends!

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That is probably one of the first laws everybody on this forum had broken by like age 6

Yea, everybody did it at sometime!!

Quit tryin' to scare me!

Addendum: I dropped all my pistols off the bass boat when I was fishing last month. I don't have any guns anymore.

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Probably not,

Very difficult to cook without drying out

we've got a hummingbird feeder under our carport and it's interesting to watch them......just a suggestion but why don't you let them have that little corner of your porch,put some old towels under where there are droppings....go sit on other end of porch and watch them...might to be interesting to see them progress from eggs to where they are bringing food to the the little birds and finally watching them learning to fly....
(I might have a guilty conscience from all those songbirds i shot with my Daisy Red ryder BB gun as a kid)....

I have killed them before and I felt bad about it. I wouldn't do it again.

This stuff worked very well for the robins building a nest under my porch. It’s still there after 2 years and no birds since then.