Janet Baraclough wrote:
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Nowt to do with gardening, but I know there are helpful bird lovers
here. A pair of swallow have surveyed my garage and decided it would
make a good home. I have no problem with that except I cannot leave my
garage door open all the time as I have a lot of equipment there, if it
was just the car I could cope.


For several days now as soon as I open my garage door, in they go, while
I am working in there, hammering, sawing, whatever, they continue to fly
in and out. Now I am concerned that they are wasting good nest building
time, how is the best way to encourage them to look elsewhere?


Get them out and keep the door shut while you're either in or out of
the garage. They'll get the message eventually and build somewhere else.
Or, if you have an opening window that's too small for thieves, you
could leave that open. But be warned, if you let them nest they and the
babies make a lot of droppings mess.
At our last house we had a high apex ceiling above open beams. I
usually left the back door open all day in good weather. One evening I
came in late from gardening all day and found swallows had started a
nest in the dining room and were camped out for the night on the beams..
I managed to evict them so they rehoused themselves in the summerhouse,
which didn't have a door so I couldn't exclude them. Then they wouldn't
let us in :-(

Janet.
if you can tell me how to encourage birds which will eat my slugs I
don't care how off topic you may be you're welcome in my book.