This one's gonna be a different story. Many of you know I've been burning close to 50 years now. And for 50 years I've been dealing with the same problem, "BIRD $#!T". Ok, now that I've got your attention, I load 6 cord of dry seasoned wood in my burn shed every year, and every year a few hundred house sparrows make nests among the wood and roost in the shed during the winter and SH!T all over the wood. I've tried, (Fake snakes, aluminum foil strips, Plastic Owls and Hawks, noise, lights, moth balls, and nearly everything else you can think of except shooting them! I can't (really) enclose it and it seems like a trivial issue but come winter I can fill a gallon paint can just from the sh!t I sweep off the top logs and it's all over the Inside. Anyone got any other Ideas? I've been dealing with it for this long. I'm willing to try something/anything else to keep them off the wood! Dave.
Anything that is on the wood in my shed gets banged off when I go to bring it into the house. I don't really pay much attention to what may be on the wood. I have a dirt floor in my pole barn so I don't care what falls on it. If the bird crap sticks, It should be dry enough to burn.
Unfortunately it's engrained generationally in those birds that your shed is home. Guy I work for had the same problem. Ain't a thing gonna scare them off. You gotta evict em. He put up hardware cloth everywhere he could see and then still had a couple spots after the birds got back in.
We used to have a mouse problem in our garage and sheds. We've had 3 cats for 2 years now, Mousetache and his sisters Mini-Mousetache and Sox. I haven't set a mouse trap since we adopted them.
screen it off? Just get some bulk screen and some lathe board or a more elegant securing option. maybe add some reflectors to the screen so they don't get tangled in it?
I'm on board with you! And, I do have a REAL smoking fast RWS pellet gun, (BUT), I live in New Jersey, and people can see into my yard from various other yards. I have a "Screaming" liberal 2 doors down who would call the police in a 1/2 a second if she saw it. I'm not losing Thousands of dollars of guns over some sparrows, and YES, they would take them INSTANTLY!
I second a puddy tat. If not maybe call a wildlife relocation company. They have a lot of tricks up their sleeves.
We actually put netting in the frame work of our outside awnings so the Bast@rds wouldn't roost up in the framing. My winter wood shed is 8' x 16' and 7ft high inside, because of my neighbors fence they put in, I'd never get to the back to net it in and secure it. It's too close to the fence line and I'm too FAT to squeeze behind it. Chrissy took all the song bird feeders down but ironically this area is a (Real) bird sanctuary and in the flight path of migrating birds. With that said, we do have the Predators, Red-Shouldered, Broad-Winged, Northern Goshawk, Rough-Legged, Northern Harrier, Cooper’s, Red-Tailed, and Sharp-Shinned Hawks. So they are eating sparrows like crazy, we find sparrow feathers and parts almost daily, but they are multiplying like crazy also. I just figured I'd put it out to see if anyone else had a good idea. Many thoughts are better than one.
I've been having the same problem with my truck that is parked in the lean-to. I ran lighting-two in each lean-to; and birds will roost on the romex that powers those lights. Stuff gets all over whatever I park in the lean-to. Most noticeably, the tonneau cover of the truck gets it! I'm thinking the only fix is to install screen preventing their roosting.
I have birds try to nest in various areas of my small barn which is one of those metal sheds. I got tired of it and started tearing down the nests. I've stopped all but one. That is, every spring it makes a nest somewhere so when I see it happening I tear it down. It rebuilds and I continue. Eventually it stops.
I've got an RWS Model 94 for the starlings. I have one neighbor who loves all animals but they are not that close and really no one on the sides or back of my house. I'm feeling it would take a while picking off sparrows. There seems to be a never ending supply of them. FWIW with your situation like others mentioned I'd look towards some kind of screening. They would just get caught up in the netting.
