birds

[Dave Maxwell]

How do I keep birds out of my new building? They are invading my new building while I am waiting for concrete and doors

 

[KPSquared]

My solution has been a 12 guage. Depends on the birds. Fake owls can work on some.

 

[Dave Maxwell]

Blackbirds. Twelve gauge might ventilate my walls

 

[Zeke]

Start a fire inside? I don't think they'd care too much for even a small amount of smoke.

 

[Dave Maxwell]

I though about the inside fire. Have some wood to burn

 

[Gary S]

Just live with their mess until you can close up the building. They can't bother you once they can't get inside.

Work double time finishing up the building.

 

[volvo]

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Loud gun fire, shotgun, fire crackers?, Run down to big box store and get a super large tarp for the openings.

 

[House Sparrow]

Hang a few fake owls over the entrances, leaving them suspended so they move some. These blackbirds are probably starlings, which are actually pretty smart birds, and will quickly figure out that a non-moving owl decoy is fake. Moving ones should scare them enough that they won't come close enough to find out.

They do make starling traps, but the traps fill up quickly and won't do much good if you have a large population of the pesky birds, which most areas do. I like birds, but I could do without starlings. There are just too many of them, and they get into everything they're not supposed to.

 

[BADSIX]

why don't you see if you can pick up some netting and cover the door area. other than that i think you'll just have to wait untill you get it sealed. the owl thing doesn't work very well, the birds are smarter than you think.

 

[lotsoftools]

I had good luck with rubber snakes. I put a couple of them under the carport where the birds were trying to make a nest and they never came back.

 

[64dragnwagon]

If you have no concrete for them to $#@! on then what are they hurting? I had the same problem, they built 2 nests in my new building and crapped on the ground then the concrete. When I put the doors on I knocked down the nest and cleaned the bird ****, no problem. I think if this is the biggest problem you have on your build then you are one lucky man.

 

[Dave Maxwell]

Just worried about them making a home. At the mercy of the concrete guy now. I saw one in the soffit area today. I have 16 foot sides. So getting up to the top is a problem

 

[64dragnwagon]

Just worried about them making a home. At the mercy of the concrete guy now. I saw one in the soffit area today. I have 16 foot sides. So getting up to the top is a problem

The nest in mine were inside in the trusses about 15' high. A 16' 2x4 and they were gone. Or a ladder but the 2x4 was handier than getting the ladder out.

 

[NUTTSGT]

Hang some pie pans in the door ways ? I've seen people do it around their gardens.

 

[wdlfbio]

pellet gun a few of them and those that live will quicklhy get the idea. The concept is to teach them this is not a safe place. They are smart birds and can tell the difference between life threatening and lame. Static deterrents, as mentioned above, fail. The order in which it is hardest to harass birds is 1) feeding, 2) breeding (***), 3) loafing about. Your situation is #2 and not too tough to alter that behavior. But, if you give in now, they will be back bext year and peck out the hardware cloth used to protect your eave vents.

 

[Torque1st]

Watch them and destroy any nests before they complete them. A garden hose works well. They will probably get the idea and go somewhere else. Smoke them out if they won't take the hint. Once the shell is sealed you shouldn't have any more problems but you might get an occasional bird inside. Pellet guns can also perforate the metal. Back when I was a kid the police used a BB gun inside buildings.

 

[HOTFR8]

Throw a tennis ball around will not damage the walls but the movement and sound of it hitting the walls will scare birds out. Have seen this done in Church buildings and it works well.

 

[Kevin54]

Kill one or two of the birds and hang the dead bird(s) by a string in the doorway. They will get the clue. An older guy used to have Bluebird houses up but the Sparrows would always take over and toss out the eggs, or set in the box hole when it was hot and suffocate the baby Bluebirds. He started trapping the Sparrows by going up behind the box and covering it. He would then twist the head off of the Sparrows and drop them to the ground by the nesting box. He would let the other Sparrows see him do this. Within a couple of weeks the Bluebirds took over and the Sparrows were gone.

 

[badbascom]

Hang plastic walmart type bags so the wind can rustle them, I like the pie pans though also.

 

[barks]

Borrow the neighbor's cat. Keep your dog, however, to chase the cat away when the birds are gone.

 

[Dave Maxwell]

Going to lite a fire while the floor is still dirt. Then after doors and stuff are done I will lite some firecrackers inside to scare them away then close door. Pigeons at work don't mind smoke or noise. They fly all over there and **** on top if our tool boxes

 

[ed_v]

I have a bad bird problem as well. When I go in and start working they all leave.

Ed

 

[Dave Maxwell]

Have to get them out before I put cars in there

 

[HOTFR8]

Can you hang up old CD's leave a door opn so they move in the breeze as the reflections moving birds do not like. Works well in fruit trees.

 

[Dave Maxwell]

Will try the CDs when I get doors and it sealed up. Right now its wide open

 

[larry_g]

We used to use a 22 with bird shot in it. Would get the bird but not harm the metal building.

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no neat sig line

 

[Dave Maxwell]

Bird shot won't hurt the metal. That's good to know. I have a 22

 

[HOTFR8]

Will try the CDs when I get doors and it sealed up. Right now its wide open

Try them whilst it is open as the moving light is what they do not like.

 

[Dave Maxwell]

Will do

 

[HOTFR8]

 

[Dave Maxwell]

Just noticed your are from Australia. Hot. That is a place I am going to visit before I die

 

[HOTFR8]

Just noticed your are from Australia. Hot. That is a place I am going to visit before I die

Nearly our winter now. Starlings and Sparrows are a problem here but the bigger birds like Cockatoos, Corellas and Galahs can become a pest as well as they like to dig up cricket pitches or remove roofing nails.

 

[Dave Maxwell]

Big birds. Wow

 

[HOTFR8]

Big birds. Wow

Just like playfull children as they are all Parrot species and they say at Adult age they have a brain equivalent of a 5 year old. Cockatoos can talk well if trained. A neighbour had one years ago that always used to call out 'MUM' every time the back screen door shut with a bang.

Even seen Cockatoos here drop Pine Cones as bombs that way they can access the seeds inside after they hit the ground.

 

[Dave Maxwell]

Would be neat to hear one talk. Never have

 

[Dave Maxwell]

Company I work for had an opening for a traveling tech. I almost took it. Australia would have been one of the stops. We sell dump trucks to mines and the mines sometimes have us come over to give technical assistance

 

[HOTFR8]

Would be neat to hear one talk. Never have

After a quick search on You Tube.

I have a friend here who has one at his workshop front door and when you approach it says something like "What are you doin ?" Good security alarm if you are not aware of it.