I have eight very large conifers in my garden. I have now also aquired all of Bradley Stokes and surrounding areas Starling population who roost in my trees. This has been going on for three weeks now. There are many hundreds if not into the thousand+ of these birds and the numbers seem to be increasing.
It starts at dusk and they wheel about in circles collecting more and more as they do so. They get lower and lower and finally settle in my trees and churp away until 6-30 or 7-00pm. Now I am an animal and bird lover and the last thing I want to do is deny them safety and shelter over the winter.
But I wish they would empty their bowels somewhere else and not when they come into land!
4-45pm sees me out there with Triplewax Liquid Gold Self Drying Shampoo and a hose. I wash 2 cars and hose them off in ten minutes flat now!
Apparantly the Starlings will start to drift of somewhere else by the end of February so 51 more days of this then!(hopefully)
People come and watch this specticle now. I stand in my porch and watch them getting bombed as well as my cars!
By: paul178 - 18th January 2012 at 20:19
We an update.As a result of my problem Baz got in touch with me and told me how to get rid of them.
So day one after a nights activity with my neighbours help down to half
Day two down to 100ish birds
Day three down to 60ish
Day four about a dozen
Day five none.
Thankyou very much Baz!:D I would have rung you but I had a senior moment and deleted your PM with your phone number!
Paul:)
By: hampden98 - 11th January 2012 at 10:56
I have eight very large conifers in my garden. I have now also aquired all of Bradley Stokes and surrounding areas Starling population who roost in my trees. This has been going on for three weeks now. There are many hundreds if not into the thousand+ of these birds and the numbers seem to be increasing.
It starts at dusk and they wheel about in circles collecting more and more as they do so. They get lower and lower and finally settle in my trees and churp away until 6-30 or 7-00pm. Now I am an animal and bird lover and the last thing I want to do is deny them safety and shelter over the winter.
But I wish they would empty their bowels somewhere else and not when they come into land!4-45pm sees me out there with Triplewax Liquid Gold Self Drying Shampoo and a hose. I wash 2 cars and hose them off in ten minutes flat now!
Apparantly the Starlings will start to drift of somewhere else by the end of February so 51 more days of this then!(hopefully)People come and watch this specticle now. I stand in my porch and watch them getting bombed as well as my cars!
It’s when nature sends it’s Naval Assets in to do some `gardening` on my pond I object to! Must be using upkeeps as the net doesn’t keep them at bay?
By: tornado64 - 9th January 2012 at 10:07
try to find your local bird of prey keepers a few fly arounds by one of them buggahs should keep them at bay for a while !!
By: paul178 - 9th January 2012 at 00:17
Dr Strangelove, impractical and highly illegal. The Starling is on the “red list” of endangered birds and are protected and must not be killed. Numbers have dropped in the UK by 65% in the last few years.(I wonder who has been reading the RSPB Website?):D I just wish I did not have the majority of the remaining 35% of the sodding things!
By: Dr Strangelove - 9th January 2012 at 00:01
Seem to recall the African method of starling control was to ignite a barrel of gasoline at the base of the tree during roosting hours, the ensuing fireball generally did the trick.
However, these days, the price of fuel may make this exercise impractical 😉
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