Forum home› Wildlife gardening
This Forum will close on Wednesday 27 March, 2024. Please refer to the announcement on the Discussions page for further detail.

Birds nesting in roof eaves

LucidLucid Posts: 387
in Wildlife gardening

Hi everyone,

We've currently got a sparrow and starling nest under the roof eaves on each side of our house. We've had them for a couple of years now. I'm struggling to find online whether there's any maintenance to the nest area you're supposed to undertake when it's under the eaves? I know that for nestboxes you're advised to disinfect once a year once the birds have moved out. I'm guessing that you're not expected to be able to reach the eaves nest area as it's only accessible through a small gap, but I wanted to make sure there wasn't anything we're supposed to do over Winter etc.

Thanks for any help.

Lucid image

Posts

  • pbffpbff Posts: 433

    We just leave them to their own devices, Lucid.

    Nestboxes we clean out, but the birds seem to clean out the eaves nests themselves.

    🐌🐌🐌🐌🐌🐌🐌🐌🐌🐌🐌🐌
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,088

    We ended up with a large colony of sparrows in our roof eaves in Belgium.  The only thing we did was block off the tight angle of the roof from the inside to reduce the number fledging inside into the attic - and being caught by our cats.   Worked a treat.

    Our letter box was on the garage wall below and its lid needed a regular clean as the parents ditched poo sacs but that's all.

    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • LucidLucid Posts: 387

    Thanks very much pbff and Obelixx. Am glad to hear that they keep it under control themselves. 

    Lucid image

Sign In or Register to comment.