No, not custard and ice cream, but birds that come to excavate a brick wall. I have had an e mail from a friend who is having problems with birds that are attacking his house wall. He said they were sparrows, but to my eyes they are black with a white chest and a flash line of white similar to that a sparrow has on its shoulder/wing. What they are doing is pecking at the brick work and eroding it.
Could do but it won't work. I tried it. I even tried a 3D sparrow hawk model. Most garden birds don't know what the threat is and perch right next to it. btw I was trying to get rid of the filthy pigeons that overfeed because of stupid bag next door who puts out continuous feeders. Also won't work are things like ultrasonic bird scarers (unless you can try 1kW of 20kHz (which I can't). Birds meay *seem* to do clever things and some sing wonderfully, like blackbirds (really beautiful), but they are the most stupid of creatures imaginable. In the case of pigeons - also the most filthy. Old bag next door quietly ignores their cra* as she wades to fill the feeders each week. She is the same fruitcake that won't have her 70' (yes SEVENTY foot) ash tree pruned and has just replaced her smashing quiet sheepdog with a terrier that barks at small children, OAP's, it's shadow, a passing cloud, it's own fa*ts - in fact, at nothing at all. The fact this noise is very loud but does not last very long seems to exempt attempts to prevention of noise nuisance because it's doesn't go on for long enough. Great fun being waken up at 07:00 when working afternoons and nights. Very sorry so OT. I've had this for years....
They sound like House Martins who can build nests under the eaves of houses out of mud. If they are doing this they are quite nice really and you are quite lucky as the prefer non-urban environments
Absolutely. But I couldn't decide whether the overall effect would be to increase or decrease water uptake - so I made no comment on that. Whichever it does (or even if it does not change the actual amount one jot), the root spread will not be reduced by pruning branches.
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