Starlings in the Roof

[RichardTaylor]

Following on from the Rodents thread, what about Starlings in a roof space, with no access for mere humans.

I know they are in there and probably got in under the eves. They shuffle around during the night and bang around during the day.

I have a fear of heights so accessing the eves is even more difficult, and I do have cat, bless her, who would run a mile.

Any thoughts?

 

[sarabande]

Can you "attack" the starlings with e.g. a hosepipe or reflected sunlight, as they go in and out the roost route ?


With the nesting season approaching, you need to get them out PDQ.


These devices look pretty fearsome. http://www.birdscarer.com/Default.asp

 

[savageseadog]

Leave nature alone.

 

[Nickel]

I'm very much a treehugger myself, but starlings do a lot of damage in a roofspace - you'll need to find where they're getting in - clear the material out that it's in there - thousands of maggots in my case [yeuch!] and make all good with no possible re-access - and as said pdq before they lay.

 

[sarabande]

Sorry, but by building a roof with free access to wildlife, man has taken on a responsibility both to himself and the birds. Resolving the priority is simple: if the birds can be evicted with minimal short term harm and distress, and providing that NATURAL roost sites are available within flying distance, and providing that the disturbance is not harmful to their breeding cycle (it aint now, cos it's still winter) then the reduction in potential harm to people's health outweighs the nesting convenience to a hundred or so birds.



I must go and feed the sheep and lambs who have been kept inside for the last two months by a cruel and ruthless farmer who has thus prevented them from dying as nature intended in the snow drifts and in the winter jaws of starving predators.

 

[Sans Bateau]

I love birds, feed them watch them, protect them (from cats if I can), but sorry starlings are vermin. They will cause havoc in your roof, get them out fast!