Hey all hope everyone is well and had a good xmas.
Not sure if this is in right place (please relocate mods if it isn't).
Basically, as the title suggests we have a family of these whom have nested in the very corner box section of the eaves on our bedroom side.
It's inaccessible from the loft space having been up to inspect. The mother is quite terrotorial and obviously protective so I don't want to get too close.
I totally understand for a bird a roofspace makes an ideal home but the loft has recently been newly insulated and the sight of fresh bird **** is really grinding my gears. Not to mention the random scratching and scuttling sounds from the Juveniles in the early hours. This has been going on weeks now.
My thinking is to wait until they leave (will they?) and then look at all possible entry routes and block off.
The tiles are not the grooved type so I'm not exactly sure how they've got in. What I do know is as the house is circa 1960's they'll prolly be no tile combs or bird blockers etc.
I don't want to harm them or destroy the nest but I've little choice but to stop them returning.
What would one recommend as a cost effective deterrant?
I do have some spare barbed wire but is this an inhumane way to keep birds out? My thinking along these lines was to cut it into lengths and coil it in the channels in the eaves as the birds can obviously run amok in the loft and make mess where suits.
I certainly don't want to if I can avoid it of course, start dismantling roof tiles to retrofit blocks/combs.
Also, should I consider siting a bird box nearby to offer them alternative accomodation as I know they'll return.
Thanks.
Not sure if this is in right place (please relocate mods if it isn't).
Basically, as the title suggests we have a family of these whom have nested in the very corner box section of the eaves on our bedroom side.
It's inaccessible from the loft space having been up to inspect. The mother is quite terrotorial and obviously protective so I don't want to get too close.
I totally understand for a bird a roofspace makes an ideal home but the loft has recently been newly insulated and the sight of fresh bird **** is really grinding my gears. Not to mention the random scratching and scuttling sounds from the Juveniles in the early hours. This has been going on weeks now.
My thinking is to wait until they leave (will they?) and then look at all possible entry routes and block off.
The tiles are not the grooved type so I'm not exactly sure how they've got in. What I do know is as the house is circa 1960's they'll prolly be no tile combs or bird blockers etc.
I don't want to harm them or destroy the nest but I've little choice but to stop them returning.
What would one recommend as a cost effective deterrant?
I do have some spare barbed wire but is this an inhumane way to keep birds out? My thinking along these lines was to cut it into lengths and coil it in the channels in the eaves as the birds can obviously run amok in the loft and make mess where suits.
I certainly don't want to if I can avoid it of course, start dismantling roof tiles to retrofit blocks/combs.
Also, should I consider siting a bird box nearby to offer them alternative accomodation as I know they'll return.
Thanks.