It might save both of you some frustration!🤣😁

I got a wren. We hardly use our front door anyway, so the nest remains.

... where she wants to construct her nest ?

How about bird/pigeon spikes. Available at Home Depot.

It is just that they have no place to land without getting poked - so they move on to a less uninviting place.

Next to the spot

rattlesnakes nor poison oak residing.

Victory in the end game tactic.

Try putting lemon slices in the nest.

seemed to bother them. It's a tradition to us now, so the coming of Spring means that the robins will soon be returning.

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My husband, when he was alive, put up a 5 x 5 platform for the robins. 2 years ago the doves took it over and for the last 2 years have used it for their babies. We’d laugh as the doves are larger then the robins and would be larger then the nest, but they’d have at least 3 batches every year. Saw them there again this year, but it was a couple of days ago, haven’t seen them since, hope they’re gonna use it this year.

fixture.

and hoses out the garage when they exit the building. It's been a pattern for years and years. The swallows don't come back to Capistrano, they come back to our garage.