Keeping birds out of the roof tiles

Chicken wire mesh.

I fitted the same type of netting as we use for protecting strawberries, raspberries etc. Dirt cheap from any DIY place, garden centre etc. No more bother from birds -mainly sparrows.

The young will be leaving soon and the nests won't be re-occupied this year. Let them be, there are enough pressures on the bird population already

Mary.

I haven't seen that mesh stuff before. We have these fitted, they seem to work:

In article , John scribeth thus

We've got those too and its delightful listening to them very early in the morning, especially now the chicks have hatched. Been there Two nesting sites for the last 10 odd years.

If they aren't doing any harm why do you want rid of them?.

Theres precious little of where they should be out in the country left so thats I suppose why they've moved in .....

In article , Mary Fisher scribeth thus

We've had two broods some years....

Indeed .. including all the cats round here!..

If you disturb nesting birds you can be jailed. Don't do it until later in the year, ask the RSPB when.

Mrs. says....

We live next to a load of trees - they could easily nest in there.

Looks good - how do you fit it? Do they just slide in?

Ideally you lift/take out the last row of tiles, fit it then put them back. Which was fine for us as we had the interlocking concrete tiles. The upright tines are flexible so they just bend out of the way of the tiles but are solid enough to stop birds and squirrels getting through.

The right angled bit at the bottom is designed to be screwed/nailed into the top of the bargeboard, but I guess it could be glued instead if access is a real problem.

You *might* be able to get to it from inside the roof. But that will be a very awkward hot and itchy job if your roof is anything like ours...

In that case then....

Security issue round here with all the cats about;!..

Before I fitted the netting, the little buggers -sparrows- were breeding from March till the end of August. Bloody racket starting at 4am for 6 months of the year.

Tree nesting birds don't usually nest in houses (aka caves, holes in rocks etc.), and vice versa.

Mary

But he could get Mrs to do it since she's the one who's complaining, allegedly.

Mary

Which section of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 states such a thing? Bearing in mind we are talking about birds -which are highly unlikely to be golden eagle or swans- nesting under rooftiles

Assuming they are house sparrows which are in serious decline

Any wild birds.

Some endangered species don't nest in trees, like house sparrows don't.

Nothing about going to jail in your example. Nothing about it in the Act either