Swallows nesting in trailer, urgh

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It happened last year, and it's looking like it might this yea, so quick action needed. YO has already had a nest beside her lorry engine that caught fire - very lucky escape tbh. We found a blackbirds nest in her hubbie's new and well used tractor today too :eek: It's all going on !!

I have been reliably informed that by hanging CD's in the trailer with bailer twine, they will keep out - so the freebie cd's have come out and we're going to give it a go, as lost a lot of use of the trailer after the birds had two clutches last year. Cliff Richard, Tina Turner and Paul mccartney might just do it.

nb - all nests being built/used are protected and can't be moved until they have stopped being used.

Will get a pic of the trailer CD's....
 
I have been trying to get hubs to do this for a long time. He's bought all the stuff.. I think I can feel an argument coming on *sigh*.
 
lol if you play the cliff CD's i think that would keep everything away:D
some dafty blackbird built her nest in my hay store, right by the hinge on the door, so i swapped which door i used but when farmer went to top up my hay he managed to knock the nest off:(
 
Oh you are good.

A friend of mine on facebook openly posted about knocking down a Housemartin's nest which they were building on his pub. Needless to say I've told him that it was illegal...

Friends hubby made a hard hat swallow nest in his workshop after finding a nest damaged last year on the floor he put the remains of the nest and surviving eggs in the hard hat he attached to the wall and they used it for the rest of the summer!
 
I did think that maybe everyone could come out for a day trip last year, but sadly I summised this would not work. We occasionally had to go in and rescue tots that had wobbled out they laid so many.

Coming to think of it, Cheryl Coles new album may be the CD I need ?
 
I've got a wren nesting over the door in my feed room. We nearly had a head on the other day, me going out with feeds, her coming in with a beakful of wriggly things... boy did she cuss at me - for such a small bird she did go on and on and on about it :D:)
 
well the cd's are up, shiny side to the light - YO thinks I have really lost it, and hubs is (ahem) under orders to get the bloody stuff up on the open bits.

No sign of a nest, but there was a huge mutiny of swooping swallows outside, going for insetcs.
 
We've an old lorry trailer we tie up to in our front garden (ponies live in the back garden and have to come through the car port to go out in the horse trailer, hence they often get tied up to the lorry trailer). There are great tits nesting in the wheel hub, much to the surprise of tied up pony once they hatched and were squeeking (till they got used to it! )
 
We had robins nesting in the barn in a hanging basket that was hanging on the wall waiting for better weather to be planted up again. The chicks were delightful especially when they were learning to fly. At least 2 swallows nests in the stables, but not so keep on the pigeons that are nesting too it has to be said.
 
When we arrived at a show a few months ago a mouse popped its head up from under the bonnet and stared through the windscreen at my friend who was driving - hopefully it had a nice day out and didn't eat anything vital :D
 
Swallows nest in my mares stable, poor girl often has bird sh** in her mane and on her rugs and using hair from her tail for their nests :(

However I do think they poss keep the flies down so not all bad, plus they are quite cute :)
 
I love watching the birds, we have a young woodpecker comes with mum to the birdtable to be fed, it wiggles its wings and mum feeds it.
When we first moved in last year, the sun room window was covered in poo, so I knocked the two Housemartins nests off, have had a running battle this year getting them to build somewhere more convenient. Now they are settling in the new nest, I saw a squirrel trying to raid the nest, not while I'm watching matey.
I haven't got the time to watch as much as I would like but it is all lovely to see
 
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