Doing What Comes Naturally

Anyone who knows me knows that I am a friend of song birds.  Cavity-nesting and especially ground-nesting birds.  Nevertheless, I struggle with the birds that insist-upon nesting on my house.  It's messy after-all.

Yesterday, Jill opened the crank-out window of the kitchen only to discover that swallows had begun to compromise the Nixalite above in an attempt to build a nest.  She texted this:
 
Warm outside and cold inside so I cranked open the kitchen window. Unbeknownst to me swallows had been trying to build a nest at the nixalite. So when I opened it and with the outside breeze, pieces of nest and dust blew in to the kitchen.  So first I cleaned out the kitchen and then I cleaned out around the window outside.  Hmmmm...How to keep them from trying to rebuild? Trying a woodpecker and a cat.  So far so good.

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Woody Woodpecker and Garfield the Cat were deployed as improvisational scarecrows and at last report they were winning the upper hand.

Stay tuned - and if you want to learn more about Nixalite Bird Spikes click on this link. 

Raising a toast to American ingenuity...