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Jersey_Boy
Citizen
Username: Jersey_boy
Post Number: 835
Registered: 1-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 16, 2006 - 1:24 pm: | 
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I just got a request from a friend to borrow my ladder because there's a bird's nest in his air conditioner and the noise is making him nuts.
Now, I've got the ladder, but what do you do once you get to the top of it?
J.B. |
Sherri De Rose
Citizen
Username: Honeydo
Post Number: 204
Registered: 11-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 16, 2006 - 1:30 pm: |
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We used to have a birds nest in our A/C sleeve and I loved it. I was very sad when our A/C broke and we had to buy one that filled up the space. But if your friend is determined, then just make sure there are no eggs there and just put on gloves and remove it. |
gotoffadaroof
Citizen
Username: Upondaroof
Post Number: 703
Registered: 4-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 16, 2006 - 3:23 pm: |
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Ah soooo! Bird's Nest Soup! You want egg roll with that? |
Alleygater
Citizen
Username: Alleygater
Post Number: 2026
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 16, 2006 - 3:32 pm: |
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What do you do? If there is no eggs in the nest you put on gloves and you remove it. Then you fill in the hole with anything to prevent the buggers from doing this again.
We waited too long to do this and found ourselves with a bird nest LITERALLY inside our house (due to the way our air conditioners are poorly anchored into the window). We weren't worried that they would enter our house (there was cardboard blocking them) but the noise was unbearable. It was like there were a bunch a squabbling monsters in our room. And the sound of them fluttering in and out of the nest all the time was too much. But we refused to kill the babies, so we left it. Well when the little buggers hatched, the problem was EVEN WORSE. Every morning we woke to a racket beyond belief. We considered killing the still flightless chickadees quite often. We cursed them countless times. But eventually the stupid things flew off. I removed the nest, and swore to be more vigilant from now on. |
joy
Citizen
Username: Joy
Post Number: 455
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 16, 2006 - 8:27 pm: |
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We've had a bird's nest in the bathroom vent.
Being a birder - didn't want to hurt the baby birds - so we waited until August. Just to be safe.
He can probably remove it by the end of next month if there are babies. |
Tom N
Citizen
Username: Tjn
Post Number: 115
Registered: 3-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 16, 2006 - 8:56 pm: |
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Alleygater, they probably were not chickadees you had nesting but house sparrows. Chickadees are particular in where they build nests but house sparrows got their name for a reason as they love to nest in any available space a house offers and they make a lot of noise. |
doulamomma
Citizen
Username: Doulamomma
Post Number: 1418
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 16, 2006 - 9:00 pm: |
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I had this issue at my old house - it seemed that there were two stages of noise - like two batches of babies...god GD it was noisy! But I didn't have the heart to give them the boot..well, come to think of it, they were awfully high up & we were lazy...we moved instead |
Jersey_Boy
Citizen
Username: Jersey_boy
Post Number: 844
Registered: 1-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 16, 2006 - 9:13 pm: |
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Thanks, I'll suggest that.
J.B. |
Tom Reingold
Supporter
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 14306
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 17, 2006 - 9:21 am: |
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Alleygater, you're a good guy for letting them live, despite your discomfort.
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Alleygater
Citizen
Username: Alleygater
Post Number: 2038
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 17, 2006 - 10:27 am: |
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Tom N: They were definitely sparrows. All I had to do was life our curtain and peer down to see them. Freaked them out. I think I was channelling W. C. Fields when I wrote that -- I think I was trying to be cute.
Tom: well, who is so heartless that they would kill an innocent sparrow egg? Admittedly the racket was unbearable though. We would wake up some mornings before the sun had risen and we would grab ANYTHING that was close at hand (usually a shoe) and LOFT it at the window just to get (literally) 1 minutes (and sometimes less) rest from the noise, in hopes that maybe we could get back to sleep before it began again. We were SERIOUSLY lucky we didn't smash the window. The air conditioner droned out some of the noise, which definitely helped a bit. |
wnb
Citizen
Username: Wnb
Post Number: 372
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 17, 2006 - 11:39 am: |
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Please read this before taking action.
http://www.theraptortrust.org/nesting/
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Jersey_Boy
Citizen
Username: Jersey_boy
Post Number: 877
Registered: 1-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, May 20, 2006 - 11:48 pm: |
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UPDATE:
I sent the raptor trust link to them.
They have decided to leave the bird family and sleep in their guest room.
I don't have to lug my ladder anywhere.
Thanks, wnb!
J.B. |
Duncan
Supporter
Username: Duncanrogers
Post Number: 6371
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, May 21, 2006 - 11:43 am: |
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Funny...we had the same thing at our house one spring and I took a long length of fishing line, tied it to a whiffle ball and tied the other end to the bed side table. When they got to loud in the morning I would throw the ball at the AC and reel it back in until they quieted down. I am sure there is a family of English House Sparrows with serious "issues" out there somewhere. |
Jersey_Boy
Citizen
Username: Jersey_boy
Post Number: 880
Registered: 1-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, May 21, 2006 - 1:19 pm: |
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Duncan,
I'm not going to forward that to them.
J.B. |
Alleygater
Citizen
Username: Alleygater
Post Number: 2066
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, May 21, 2006 - 4:05 pm: |
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Damn, but I wish I had thought to do that Duncan. Very ingenious. |
Miss L Toe
Citizen
Username: Miss_l_toe
Post Number: 496
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, May 21, 2006 - 7:36 pm: |
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He he....you're lucky that this is NJ and not England or Scotland....at this time of year the sun rises at around 4.30am in the north of Scotland and 5.30am in the extreme South West of England....the Dawn Chorus begins really early! We had some Housemartins nesting next to our bedroom window (in Essex, England) - it was amazing how they built their nest as it was entirely made from spit and soil and they returned every year to raise more babies...sadly when we had the house painted the painter removed the nest and they never returned.
Next month in MidSummer it's even earlier LOL!
http://www.schoolsobservatory.org.uk/cgi-bin/srs_uk.cgi |
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