Don’t let them nest. As they start building the nest, you need to destroy it. They will move on elsewhere.

If you let them nest and lay eggs, they will return next year.

Hey, let's eat all the sharks for their fins, kill all the elephants for ivory and land, fumigate all insects out of existence, etc., etc. Who needs nature anyway? That is, unless you want the ecosystem to die. Why can't you just accept the little birdies and a little inconvenience?

On Mother's Day, a robin laid 2 beautiful blue eggs in her nest on our back porch.

For days we were treated to a wonderful view of the mother warming her eggs, and the father bird checking on her, then of both parents regurgitating for their little hatchlings, then feeding them huge worms. We saw the little ones grow from featherless, blind, pink lumps, to beautiful smaller speckled version of their robin parents. We took great care to disturb them as little as possible, and took photos and videos from the window. The parents squawked and flapped their wings any time we opened the back porch door in a laudable attempt to protect their young (we had to open the door to water our plants there).

On Father's Day, they flew away.


Cohabit peacefully, OP.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Inside is your turf. Outside it’s theirs. Deal with it.

Incorrect. I pay taxes and the survey indicates they are in my lines.

It would be fine if they didn't dive bomb me when I go on the deck or go off like a car alarm when I take out the recycling. But since they do, I will destroy any nest I see being attempted to be made. And the second the kids leave the nest, it's being removed. Not an hour later. They are aggressive trespassing disease carrying aholes, as far as I'm concerned.

NP, but this makes you sound quite crazy, FYI. There should be no animals outside flying in "your" airspace? That's not how taxes work.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What a nauseating post.

Thanks for your helpful response. I'll get a couple of cats and let them out from time to time - I think it might be just the thing to help.

As an alternative, someone told me that plastic birds of prey work. $12 at Walmart.

Bought a plastic owl. The birds perch right on top of it.

Damn. They are assholes.

I've got a fierce catbird in my yard, but I enjoy having her and the babies around. My kids love watching the action.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Inside is your turf. Outside it’s theirs. Deal with it.

Incorrect. I pay taxes and the survey indicates they are in my lines.

It would be fine if they didn't dive bomb me when I go on the deck or go off like a car alarm when I take out the recycling. But since they do, I will destroy any nest I see being attempted to be made. And the second the kids leave the nest, it's being removed. Not an hour later. They are aggressive trespassing disease carrying aholes, as far as I'm concerned.

Only on dcum is there someone so entitled they think their property line marks a boundary which no bird should cross. I hope a murder of crows roosts over your house or driveway and sh1ts all over it.

I hope a gang of stray cats comes and devours all the birds on your property.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Inside is your turf. Outside it’s theirs. Deal with it.

Incorrect. I pay taxes and the survey indicates they are in my lines.

It would be fine if they didn't dive bomb me when I go on the deck or go off like a car alarm when I take out the recycling. But since they do, I will destroy any nest I see being attempted to be made. And the second the kids leave the nest, it's being removed. Not an hour later. They are aggressive trespassing disease carrying aholes, as far as I'm concerned.

Only on dcum is there someone so entitled they think their property line marks a boundary which no bird should cross. I hope a murder of crows roosts over your house or driveway and sh1ts all over it.

Anonymous wrote:Inside is your turf. Outside it’s theirs. Deal with it.

Incorrect. I pay taxes and the survey indicates they are in my lines.

It would be fine if they didn't dive bomb me when I go on the deck or go off like a car alarm when I take out the recycling. But since they do, I will destroy any nest I see being attempted to be made. And the second the kids leave the nest, it's being removed. Not an hour later. They are aggressive trespassing disease carrying aholes, as far as I'm concerned.

Anonymous wrote:Inside is your turf. Outside it’s theirs. Deal with it.

+1, learn to enjoy the birds chirping. It’s beautiful, you not so much. In some cultures, it’s good luck when birds nest on your property.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What a nauseating post.

Thanks for your helpful response. I'll get a couple of cats and let them out from time to time - I think it might be just the thing to help.

As an alternative, someone told me that plastic birds of prey work. $12 at Walmart.

Bought a plastic owl. The birds perch right on top of it.

I love birds but I hear you. They built nests in all the hedges and hanging plants. They go nuts and scare away the hummingbirds.

A few years ago they made a nest in our mailbox! We had to install another one closer to the entrance to not disturb them. And even as we were doing it, I was saying to myself really? All that for the birds?

Anonymous wrote:I went to sweep off some leaves from the deck, and daddy robin dive bombed me. It sounds off an internal car alarm whenever I just step in the back.

Nest time I'm not going to shoo away the squirrels whenever I see them approaching.

Your eggs are pretty, but you are ungrateful jerks, robins.

Yeah, robins are psychos.

I went to sweep off some leaves from the deck, and daddy robin dive bombed me. It sounds off an internal car alarm whenever I just step in the back.

Nest time I'm not going to shoo away the squirrels whenever I see them approaching.

Your eggs are pretty, but you are ungrateful jerks, robins.