How To Stop Barn Swallows From Nesting Around Your House (Easy Tips And Tricks)

[@denniselmore717]

A couple helium balloons worked for us. Shiny Mylar balloons with a face seem best.

[@AbbottsAtHome]

Genius! Love this idea.

[@forkhorn77]

They will get used the shiny stuff too For 20 years been frying owls , rubber snakes , tin pie plates and foil , and eventually they always came back Finally has to line the upper part of my porch with netting to keep the away

[@AbbottsAtHome]

Yikes! I hope that doesn’t happen here. Renting scaffolding to get up there is a pain. Strangely, the swallow that showed up this year gave up on the porch after 2 days. He must have found a back up spot pretty fast. 🤞🤞

[@Psalm95_4]

Very helpful video. Will start with the owl for now. I have hanging string lights that the birds chill on. Looks like I’ll have to take those down too.

[@AbbottsAtHome]

Good luck!

[@VishalRaoOnYouTube]

I have a 16 ft porch in central Texas with a similar problem. What about an outdoor rated crystal chandelier in your porch and keeping it on 24/7/365?

[@AbbottsAtHome]

That could work. Just crystals with a light throwing reflections around should be a good deterrent. Once they lay eggs and have babies in the nests, they can't really move until the babies are ready to fly. So, you really have to stop them from nesting every year. Good luck!!

[@sandilobianco6734]

Thank you. I have the same problem with bird nests. The pole is a good idea. I’ve heard that using the color blue like blue strips of paper tape or fabric keeps them away as well.

[@AbbottsAtHome]

I've heard that too. The first year they showed up, I actually had the ceiling painted a medium brown. I always wonder if that attracted them.

[@naturepoet03]

I would be really happy if those birds came to my house!!!!! I don't understand people, who want to get rid of them. After that they are complaining they are too much mosquitos.. I'm not talking about you, just in general. But no hate or something, just explained my view about those beautiful creatures :)) Love all

[@AbbottsAtHome]

I love these birds too. They're still here, swooping up mosquitos above my yard. I just prevented them from nesting on my porch. But, they still nested in trees around my yard. It's a win win for me and the birds. :)

[@Trthsker24]

Overheard a woman talking about barn swallows, who said she knocked down a nest and stomped the eggs bc they are nuisance birds. I was speechless.

[@AbbottsAtHome]

Yikes!

[@jonboz2577]

Illegal in many states.

[@GeneralSeptem]

Good for her. We don't owe these birds shit.

[@angelar3045]

They eat mosquitoes so I’m cool with them.

[@AbbottsAtHome]

I love that too! They can live anywhere else on my property, just not my porches or outside of my bedrooms (they're LOUD) :)

[@TOTMGreenish-Top-Of-The-Morrin]

how do you call them dangerous 🦧 they fly around my head every time I go out on the patio never hurt me yet I think they are really cool but then I always wanted to be a bird

[@AbbottsAtHome]

If you watch the video, I mention the risks of tracking their poop and bedding into your home. 👍

[@TomCat-zo5ig]

Until you have piles of disgusting crap around your house you wont understand

[@nsa1420]

God bless you! Thank you so much.

[@AbbottsAtHome]

You are so welcome

[@27Rican]

Help! I’m having this exact problem now 😩😩. They won’t leave even after their babies are grown and flying around. We literally just put up those shiny twisty things and they still are trying to remedy above my door now. We are definitely getting an owl

[@AbbottsAtHome]

I think it's harder to get rid of them once they have babies. They can't really move the babies so they stay no matter what. So sorry. Just be ready for next year with all of the deterrents. All of those babies are going to come to your house to build nests next year. Good luck!!

[@jraydelatorre]

We have to wash it every day. We probably have dozens if not 30 or 40 barn, swallows, front and back of the home during the off-season after they migrate away, you can remove and clean the area where the nest was or is. That’s fine. They’ll rebuild it when they come back or they’ll ignore it and not use it and build somewhere else. They only sure far away to get rid of them or not have them is you have to take away shoulders ledges inside angles with places that can per take away their ability to nest and they will not come around.

[@AbbottsAtHome]

That sounds horrible. Have you tried hanging netting to block them?

[@randyspringborn9054]

A shiny hubcap hanging seems to be doing the job at my house. It twirls in the wind and I think the reflection of themselves scares them off.

[@AbbottsAtHome]

Good idea!!

[@familyedavelli4328]

Would having laser lights help?

[@AbbottsAtHome]

Maybe? I haven’t tried that. But you’d think it’d be similar to mirrors or shiny objects. 😊

[@BlankBlank-by4me]

I didn’t know that they can make nests in the row!! 😮

[@AbbottsAtHome]

You can usually see them under overpasses in long lines. It’s pretty cool when it’s not on your house. 😊

[@Jade_902]

I’ve never, ever heard of this bird. I had to Google it.

[@AbbottsAtHome]

I've always loved seeing them swoop around at dusk catching bugs. But, I didn't know the name either until they nested on my porch. 😅

[@drizzlywaffle2955]

Bird poop is not enough reason to disrupt barn swallows mating you could just use the poop as fertilizer it's a gift really up to you to appreciate it don't want it clean it every so often if you worried about it it's really is a shame they're beautiful and really important to provide balance outside with flying insects as well as frogs dragonfly's and bats it's either poop or the scurge id rather take the poop it's just how nature supposed to be dont be just fucking with it

[@JuliaGisler]

Thank you, the watch for them, and knocking down nests, so the shiny objects is next..Thank you

[@AbbottsAtHome]

You’re welcome! Good luck!

[@glycomcdonald]

Also keep in mind that Barn Swallows eat horse flies, black widows, mosquitoes and winged termites.

[@AbbottsAtHome]

Yep, they’re great big eaters. They can live anywhere else on my property, just not my house. 👍

[@jraydelatorre]

Ours are afraid of nothing. I squirt them with the water hose when they fly by and they come right back they mingle and sing chirp chat or right along with my wife we will be outside sitting around and they’re right there sitting beside us on their little ledge, it’s the same Generation each year coming back. the babies this year will come back and make babies next year and then they’ll go back home and probably pass and you know in the next or latest generation Comes back and the life cycle continues, but by the time the young leaves their nest and perch where they grow for their first flight they are used to us. They’ve been sitting around with us the whole time and they’ll come back next year and greet us.😊

[@tammykotara82]

I hate these damn birds!!! They are a pain in the ace

[@AbbottsAtHome]

I like them, as long as they stay off my house. :) They eat a lot of mosquitos.

[@thefitzs]

They are very good birds to have around, and their numbers have been declining.

[@eddiethealbatross5734]

The mbta needs to be revoked at least for home owners. Crazy how people will refuse to listen to and follow the laws set so they can be decent drivers on the road but when people violate a 100 year old out dated treaty that was only put in place for hunters people scream and cry like babies. These birds are complete and utter nuisances. Protect actual humans over these obnoxious animals.

[@AndreC240]

Have fun getting wrecked by mosquitoes.