Preventing seagulls nesting

[Old Boggy]

Not sure whether this is in the right section, but here goes.

My son in law currently has a problem with lesser black backed gulls nesting in a valley in his roof. We know that we cannot disturb them while nesting but what preventative measures can be taken next year or immediately after nesting? The area is about 6 feet x 4 feet.

Thanks for any replies.

OB

[Minky]

Dunno,  put netting across the valley.  Put some sort of dummy predator, ,, cat,,, snake,,, up in there.  We just came back from Tenerife and everything where birds can perch or nest seemed to have sort of strips of anti bird spiking fitted. Similar to these.

https://www.birdspikesonline.co.uk/

[billytheghillie]

36g  of 6,s will do the trick.

[marsh man]

28 minutes ago, Old Boggy said:

Not sure whether this is in the right section, but here goes.

My son in law currently has a problem with lesser black backed gulls nesting in a valley in his roof. We know that we cannot disturb them while nesting but what preventative measures can be taken next year or immediately after nesting? The area is about 6 feet x 4 feet.

Thanks for any replies.

OB

Evening Chris .....  Yarmouth have a minor problem with Seagulls nesting in the 6 inch guttering on the industrial buildings and then the young ones walking on the payments and the roads , plus the notorious ones on the market place nicking the chips out of the kiddies hands , but Lowertoft have a major problem , the gulls nest on the window sills on many of the buildings , the windows have fine mesh nets over them and every now and again the fire brigade have to come and release them , they also have spikes glued on to the sills but they still mange to nest , at Yarmouth they have got those kites that are shaped like a hawk and they soon get used to them and simply pay no attention , years ago we would have resorted to the simple saying , prevention is better than cure , if any had started to nest on our window sill then they would had found it not one of the healthiest places to had picked , we also had a minor problem at the village school with seagulls messing in the play ground , at the time they still had the flood siren on the roof and a few minutes of that going off soon kept them away .

So the prevention is , netting , but be careful they don't get caught up , a kite shaped like a hawk , small round pieces of lead , which is now illegal , or a flood siren  

[Old Boggy]

Thank you Minky. The spike things seem to be the way forward.

Billythegillie - High velocity lead poisoning once a cure, is unfortunately, out of the question.

Marshman - I think the only practical solution are rows of spikes glued to the valley. I do like the idea of a flood siren John, but being about 50 feet above sea level they are few and far between these days.😂

OB

 

[wymberley]

An idea that I saw which worked well on a large outdoor sitting area in the Channel Islands some years back was a lattice work of fishing line. Should be easy enough on a small area.

[Minky]

With tongue in cheek. .. The #6 is effective but can be temporary. You know that shooting out of Windows or if the lead lands outside you ground is a non starter and would probably result in a visit.  Another potential problem with sploging something as big as that is the possibility of it ending up in the valley. Now something that big is going to be a rotting mess with hundreds of blowflies around the house.  Something that would be suitable for kwis.  So you might get up there on a ladder but what happens when theres another one in a couple of days

[marsh man]

36 minutes ago, Old Boggy said:

Thank you Minky. The spike things seem to be the way forward.

Billythegillie - High velocity lead poisoning once a cure, is unfortunately, out of the question.

Marshman - I think the only practical solution are rows of spikes glued to the valley. I do like the idea of a flood siren John, but being about 50 feet above sea level they are few and far between these days.😂

OB

 

Silly me , I totally forgot that some places are actually just above , or even well above sea level , before we had the flood defense raised a few times over the years we would often see the waves and spray coming over the top of the old flood defense wall , the passage way ran down towards our school and we would be watching the trickle of water coming towards the playground , this would be the time when the siren would be switched on and to warn the parents to come and pick the kids up , even now they still test the siren out two or three times a year and would warn the villages it is only a exercise when they do it .