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Cheryl > wrote:

> On Tue 16 Mar 2010 11:59:08p, Omelet wrote in rec.food.cooking
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> >> My bird problem is these house sparrows that keep nesting on
> >> the ledge over the entrance to my house, under the soffet. I
> >> keep trying to block it before spring and they keep finding a
> >> way in and nesting. Once they nest I let them finish but they
> >> come back every spring. I wouldn't mind it so much, even with
> >> all the bird shit they drip down the wall, but the mother isn't
> >> a very good one. She either pushes the babies out too young,
> >> or the babies fall out because it just isn't a good place to
> >> nest. This year I'm just banging the wall below them when I
> >> see them there. Last couple of nights I haven't seen any birds
> >> up there sleeping.

> >
> > Put a fake rubber snake up there.

>
> I'll try it. Hey CC, can I have Gracie's toy snake?


They used a large rubber lizard at work to keep some swallows from
nesting on the loading dock. They were pretty things but boy that makes
a mess!

It worked. :-)
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