Over the weekend, we discovered a newly created bird’s nest in the rafters of our back patio.
We have had this issue before, and we let it play out one year and let the birds use the back patio, only to have bird poop everywhere and a tough clean up afterward which stained the paint in the area of their nest.
This time, we promptly removed the bird’s nest and put a deflated beach ball up there to stop the birds from coming back and re-building in the same spot. Thankfully, there were no eggs in the nest yet, so the birds will just have to relocate this time.
What do you think – should we have let the birds live in the rafters while they had their babies this spring, or were we correct in order to remove the nest from patio and protect our personal property?
I am generally on the fence on this – if it does not hurt anything, I would tend to let the birds do their thing. However, after doing the cleanup and the long term affect it had from the last time, I felt it was right to have the birds move on. We have a few trees they can use instead, so they should use those and not my house!
Thanks for the input and conversation,
Brian