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Oculus Spirit [85559]
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You know how I had my deck painted and it looked reel good
Mar 15, 2022, 11:56 AM
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and all.
So every year, I get a bird trying to build a nest on my porch columns.
While the deck was being cleaned and painted, I had removed one nest and covered up the popular nesting columns with plastic bags. The bird just started building on the next uncovered column.
So I goes to Amazon and purchase these here bird spikes:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09198YF2M?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2_dt_b_product_details
Looks pretty solid. I throw one on top of every column. The bird then manages to remove them quite easily and prepare another nest.
So this past weekend, I spend an hour cleaning the top of each column. I then applied a strip of velcro to the top of the column and to the bottom of the bird spikes. These jokers ain't being pulled off by no bird.
Fast forward two days...
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All-In [43012]
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You need a snek.***
Mar 15, 2022, 11:59 AM
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All-In [46871]
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Or a BB gun***
Mar 15, 2022, 12:07 PM
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A garden hose would work just fine too***
Mar 15, 2022, 12:15 PM
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Oculus Spirit [85559]
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That would take a lot of patience and good aim
Mar 15, 2022, 1:15 PM
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to knock her out of the sky with a garden hose
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Hall of Famer [22988]
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Birds used to make nests in my outdoor light fixtures
Mar 15, 2022, 1:56 PM
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I tried closing off openings with chicken wire and other supplies, yet they still found a way every year.
The worst part is every other year, their designs were subpar and they trapped themselves inside (the first year they were roasted to death when I thought turning on the light would push them to leave). Causing me to climb up a long ladder to remove maggot infested dead birds and babies, then clean the light of all the crap.
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Heisman Winner [136410]
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Carolina Wrens are pretty aggressive
Mar 15, 2022, 12:24 PM
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they run the neighborhood cats off my deck.
leave them alone for about 4-5 weeks and the babies will be gone and they will leave you alone
Their nests are pretty dry
be glad you don't have phoebes - they smear mud & #### everywhere
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Oculus Spirit [85559]
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"be glad you don't have phoebes"
Mar 15, 2022, 1:15 PM
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That's what this effer is. I didn't know what it was until googled. It likes to nest by the last column (not the one in the picture). It flies the whole length of the deck bombarding it with #### and mud.
I think I'm going to kill it.
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Heisman Winner [138141]
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Maybe if your deck wasn't just so goshdarned nestable.
Mar 15, 2022, 12:30 PM
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I'd be all over your deck too if I lived near you.
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110%er [9713]
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Don’t shoot the birds with your slingshot.
Mar 15, 2022, 12:31 PM
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You’ll kill some baby birds mamma and then you’ll have to hide it from your sheriff dad. Then you will have to raise the baby birds and you will learn a valuable lesson. You will not want to let them go. You’ll shed a tear, but so will we. And the birds will somehow be better thanks to your destructive path.
Birds are cool. Put out some feeders and welcome the crap bombers to your porch.
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Oculus Spirit [78977]
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paint the ceiling sky blue***
Mar 15, 2022, 12:43 PM
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All-In [32706]
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Officially Haute Blue …….. works on insects, not sure about
Mar 16, 2022, 12:49 PM
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fake things like birds.
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Lot o points [163012]
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We put milk containers on ours
Mar 15, 2022, 12:45 PM
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filled with water not milk.
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Oculus Spirit [78876]
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Wait for the bird to hatch its little puppies. When they
Mar 15, 2022, 12:50 PM
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asleep one night, gently scoop up the mommy bird and give her a tranquilizing chemical that leaves her paralyzed, but awake. Tape her eye lids open, and set her upright in that old Lazy Boy you have out in the yard that you might have somebody coming to look at later next week.
Dump gasoline all over the nest, and light it on fire and make her watch. After her baby herd is dead, drive her out to the front of the trailer park and release her with the memories of that night. See if she comes back.
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Dang, you beat me to it, only difference is I use super glue
Mar 15, 2022, 1:46 PM
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instead of tape on mommy's eyelids. Severe emotional trauma, plus never sleep again.
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All-In [49198]
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We bought the kind you nail in...
Mar 15, 2022, 12:51 PM
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birds just managed to weave the nest such that is sat on top of the nails.
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Orange Blooded [2123]
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Plastic toy snakes are your friend, friend.
Mar 15, 2022, 1:23 PM
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nfm
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Hall of Famer [22988]
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Good spot to put an outdoor speaker
Mar 15, 2022, 1:59 PM
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Fill up that space so no room for nest, or blast them out with Megadeth.
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Hall of Famer [24258]
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Re: You know how I had my deck painted and it looked reel good
Mar 15, 2022, 2:06 PM
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It's still a porch, no matter how many bird live there.
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Re: You know how I had my deck painted and it looked reel good
Mar 16, 2022, 12:44 PM
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Paint you some 2bys and nail them in place to fill in the ledge
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Oculus Spirit [79304]
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One problem with that is that
Mar 16, 2022, 12:54 PM
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we don't know hoo TF you are. Hoo TF R U?
Follow up kweshion, plz poast teh tiddies.
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