wcndave
Established Member
Seem to be quite a few people round here knowledgeable about birds, and good to see so many looking out for wildlife.
During my house build I had the unhappy task of removing no less than 5 nests from inside the house.
The windows were covered with plastic, however despite that and a veritable army of builders, together with compressors, cement mixers, music, a crane, lorries, tractors, 3 circular saws, 2 table saws, 1 tile saw, electricians, plumbers, carpenters, joiners, roofers, heating people, shuttering and cement lads, rendering, plastering and so on, much of it happening all at once during a very busy two week period, despite that, the birds built inside the house during the chaos.
This last one I was able to leave as it was outside on the rafter.
However the swallows then started to build their mud nests (daubble?) on the new front wall of the house. There are hundreds of old barns and other buildings around, but as we built in what was a field, the decided to build on our front wall.
We had to try to discourage them by removing what they'd done so far, which was just a mess of brown sticky mud, as it seems unlikely the anti-dirt render would hold a full nest, and we weren't that keen on finding out. Had to make the wife a nice long extension handle for that one!
Fortunately this year the swallows have nested in the barn next door.
It was incredible that all these birds sat in their nests while very noisy building work was happening only a few feet away.
During my house build I had the unhappy task of removing no less than 5 nests from inside the house.
The windows were covered with plastic, however despite that and a veritable army of builders, together with compressors, cement mixers, music, a crane, lorries, tractors, 3 circular saws, 2 table saws, 1 tile saw, electricians, plumbers, carpenters, joiners, roofers, heating people, shuttering and cement lads, rendering, plastering and so on, much of it happening all at once during a very busy two week period, despite that, the birds built inside the house during the chaos.
This last one I was able to leave as it was outside on the rafter.
However the swallows then started to build their mud nests (daubble?) on the new front wall of the house. There are hundreds of old barns and other buildings around, but as we built in what was a field, the decided to build on our front wall.
We had to try to discourage them by removing what they'd done so far, which was just a mess of brown sticky mud, as it seems unlikely the anti-dirt render would hold a full nest, and we weren't that keen on finding out. Had to make the wife a nice long extension handle for that one!
Fortunately this year the swallows have nested in the barn next door.
It was incredible that all these birds sat in their nests while very noisy building work was happening only a few feet away.
