On Jun 16, 10:04*pm, David in Normandy
wrote:
Judith in France wrote:
*We
have bait down, all year round, both in the house and outbuildings.

Ditto that. I've also put down something a bit different this last
Winter too. It is little blue sachets about the size of a tea-bag of
what is essentially poisoned fat but the rodents haven't touched the
stuff but they have eaten the grain. I won't buy them again. They have
also left greasy stains on the floorboards.

Will birds eat the poisoned grain? At one point little piles of it were
disappearing from the attic but there were no droppings or dead mice. I
have since found house sparrows nesting in there and wondered if they
will eat the bait? I don't want to kill the birds!

The birds are determined to stop my building work though. I've got a
pile of breeze-blocks outside and two of the blocks have nests in them!
The little hole in the top of the blocks seems to be an ideal bird house
size. Seems birds like houses made of concrete, though they have added a
moss carpet to each for comfort.

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Ah, I tried those tea bag sachets, they don't work David. I buy the
ordinary rodent killer from Gamme Verte or some such and it works
fine. My farmer neighbours use something else that I cannot buy but
they tell me that if I have a problem, then I can have some. So what
will you do about the nests? Last year the plasterers in our new
sitting room, came back later to finish a new wall so that the eggs
could hatch!!!!!!

Judith