David's mission this spring has been to prevent the robins from building a nest on the molding ledge outside our bathroom window as they did the previous year. He failed the first time. After sweeping nest material away every day for over a week & thinking he'd succeeded he went out to look one morning, only to find a completed nest. So okay. Wait till the kids have flown the nest & sweep it all away again. Fine. Mission accomplished.Trouble was, robins raise 2 or even 3 families per season & soon they were back replacing everything David had swept away after the lst nesting. This time David devised a rather crude solution. He nailed plastic netting over the entire molding, but as a consolation prize nailed a piece of scrap wood to the house siding several feet away from the molding, not the least convinced they would really use it. But he was shocked several mornings ago to find that they had indeed used the ledge to build a new nest.
Of course the black plastic netting looks hideous but I'll never convince David to removed it as long as the robins insist on squatting.
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