I've had enough!!! I'm going to kill them!!!!! I need a pellet gun.

**RIDE** · 07-31-14, 17:11

They will NOT win!!!

I've decided I just have to take them out.

I can't, I won't, take it anymore.

I have a swallow problem.. NO!! Not that kind of swallow... The type of bird!!!!

These gosh dang swallows just will not give up... I tried to play nice.

I knew they'd be back when Spring came, to swoop around and crap all over our front entry way.

So out of the kindness of my heart, I decided to go the humane route.. I went to the local Farm & Home store, and got this "Bird Deterrent Reflective ribbon"... It worked! for a day!!! I had to unfold and extend the little giant ladder, climb up to the top of the arched, covered, entry way, and add MORE ribbon...

Nope.. not enough... I lug the little giant (not sure what exactly is little about it?) back out, unfold, extend, climb, apply MORE ribbon...
Each day I'm spraying down the nest as they build it.. 3 to 8 times a day,, hosing down any progress they make.. While they watch, possible mocking me, possibly angry... but watching, and swooping.
I've got all this stupid ribbon, that the swallows must now merely consider decoration for their future home as it sure isn't stopping them.

Back to the Farm store.. an OWL!!!! I buy a fake plastic owl....

Ribbons everywhere.. a stupid big-eyed owl hanging up there...

The swallows ignore and keep building... day in, day out.

I continue to hose down their progress at least 5 times a day...

We leave on vacation for a week..

We come back, the nest is completed, and now has eggs in it..

Ok... a truce, a cease-fire.. I decide to leave them undisturbed until the eggs hatch and the babies can fly.

My kids are looking through the window each morning at the 3 skinny featherless babies each morning, watching the the mom feed them, watching them grow bigger, grow feathers, then, balance on the edge hesitating to jump for a fews day... It's like national geographic in the eves of my entry way..

My kids love it... But I know their numbers are increasing....

The babies fly... gone for about a week, and now they're back. For the past 3 weeks, it's this constant hosing, and spraying off bird crap daily from the porch/sidewalk.

It's time for the end game.

I need a pellet gun. I want a quality pellet gun that is well made, accurate, etc.

Any recommendations? Please!

**lunchbox** · 07-31-14, 17:24

I'm sorry guy but that's too funny.

**ALCOAR** · 07-31-14, 17:28

Personally speaking I'd continue to be a good human, and let the birds remain in peace. We're talking about death sentences for shitting your sidewalk. The birds aren't operating on a high enough level of intelligence to know they're doing anything wrong. They're just doing what comes natural to them...dropping a deuce when they feel that "little urge"

ETA: Your kids won't forgive you either.

**Moose-Knuckle** · 07-31-14, 17:37

Damn, mice and swallows . . . good thing BCM is runnings sales on their complete uppers!

https://www.m4carbine.net/showthread...ion-Mouse-Kill

**Doc Safari** · 07-31-14, 17:42

I had a swallow problem years ago. Luckily I caught them building their nest before they finished it. I simply destroyed the nest every day, and if I caught them coming back with building materials I swatted at them with a broom.

Even after I ran them off, some chemical signature or something caused them to come back the subsequent two or three years. I finally had to glue bird spikes to the wall where they tried to build their nest and they never came back.

**Eurodriver** · 07-31-14, 18:03

Originally Posted by Doc Glockster

I finally had to glue bird spikes to the wall where they tried to build their nest and they never came back.

This is a much more humane answer.

I'm all about shooting shit, but little swallows? That your kids like to watch? Come on...

**RIDE** · 07-31-14, 18:14

Lol.. I know I know. I can't shoot the freaking things.. But my goodness they are so incredibly determined. It's crazy!
Bird spikes won't work in this location. The area they build in is about 20' up has 4 different walls.. Each that are about 4' high and 4' wide. Just a lot of space for them to choose from.

I'm now thinking of trying to cover the area with netting.

The battle goes on!

**Doc Safari** · 07-31-14, 18:22

Swallows are actually a protected species since they eat insects like mosquitoes. I did some reading at the time (over 5 years ago), and it's illegal to destroy their nests once they're established. I was in a real race against time to make sure I stopped them from building a nest or I'd have had to put up with them.

Swallows are filthy vermin. They drop their poop right below their nests, and their poop carries diseases that humans can catch.

Filthy, filthy birds.

I have no use for them or damn pigeons. I also don't have any use for people who think filthy, loud, annoying pigeons are cute little cuddly doves.

(Technically pigeons and doves are the same species).

**Moose-Knuckle** · 07-31-14, 18:27

I don't care if its a flash mob home invasion, field mice, or birds . . . a man has the right to defend his castle by God!

Good luck as the battle rages . . .