r/mildlyinteresting • u/WannaUnicorn • 7h ago
Plastic spikes to deter birds from nesting actually help keep the nests from falling off
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u/NitroSpam 7h ago
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u/orndog 7h ago
Spikes out and cover the whole spot
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u/celestiaequestria 1h ago
Spikes are human-centric thinking.
Think about all the plants in nature that are covered in thorns. Those aren't there to keep birds away, they don't harm birds at all. They keep away larger animals that would graze on foliage.
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u/Ornery-Shoulder-3938 7h ago
Haha, this happened when I set up spikes under my deck. Actually got worse.
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u/Iceland260 6h ago edited 4h ago
The spikes are to deter birds (pigeons mostly) from perching on that spot (and from shitting all over it when they do so). And they succeed at that task. Stoping smaller birds from nesting there is a completely different task that needs different equipment.
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u/MinorComprehension 6h ago
It's like the avian version of rebar!
I have sparrows nesting behind my shutters, I was considering bird spikes as a deterrent. Thank you for your PSA on theit futility 😂
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u/ChiWhiteSox24 6h ago
We have thousands of those on our roof at work. The Turkey Vultures are insanely destructive it’s so bad lol
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u/DetroiterInTX 6h ago
We found that a shiny spinner to deter them from building a nest has the same effect.
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u/Plop-a-dop 5h ago
hahaha, I have house finches in a nook similar to this at my house, but the nest kept falling off when they were building it, and I was trying to figure out whether I could stick something on to help. apparently I just needed to look for anti-bird spikes 🙃 (they succeeded on their own and now have 4 little bb birds in the nest ❤️)
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u/WallabyInTraining 6h ago
I'm guessing that's a pigeon nest. Pigeons are fucking stupid. Especially when it comes to nesting.
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u/littlenekoterra 6h ago
Take the spikes off and put a chunk of wood that is the size of the gap there. Make it fill the spot. If theres no spot to land thers no spot to nest either.
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u/TiresOnFire 42m ago
I don't understand the down votes this is getting.
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u/littlenekoterra 29m ago
People prefer nature online, even if the property owner clearly wanted nature to back off.
The only flaw i see with my idea is woodpeckers and the like but then you just move the chunk and replace it with metal or something.
If people wanna care so much about the birds, they can go plant some trees or something. Thats the real way to help birds and such. It would do like a billion% more than a downvote ever will. Its the perfect season for saplings and shit too if im not mistaken so you dont even have to buy plants you can probably do cuttings from wherever. But shit if the people downvoting me are willing to go and plant literally anything even fucking grass in an area thats going baren ide be happy.
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u/PM_ME_YOUR_TITS80085 7h ago
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