Just a little change of pace... My new RV has just sit still 2 weeks and a little robin (bird kinda animal) has built a nest on the rear ladder. I hated to move it for our trip this weekend.

 

I had a birds nest get down in the exhaust area were the pilot light for the refer apparently the wind blew the gaurd off during the winter and they moved in. i spent the better part of three days getting that messed cleaned out so we could go.

 

No birds nests yet but I had a big problem with mud dobbers in my reefer. I put some screen wire over the slots in the side cover to keep them out. Now if I could figure out a way to keep the neighbors cats off the roof I'd be set. Anyone make an electric fence for the roof line? About 60,000 volts should do it.

Edwin

 

My wife who can not tell a lie can vouch for the truthfulness of this story.

About seven years ago, my truck sat for less than a week.

I raised the hood and found a huge bluebird nest.

I make my living with the truck; so, I put about four or five thousand miles on that bluebird and her nest.

She raised about a dozen little birds and never lost a one, being hauled all over the country.

One day, back home, they finally moved out.

There is still portions of her nest under my hood; it is near impossible to get horse-hair, straw, etc. out from under brake-lines, wires, etc.

The same year, we had another family of bluebirds raised under the hood of an old Bronco II; we just let it set until they moved out.

Another time, I had a spare wheel that layed on top of the neck of a cattle trailer.

The spare had a hubcap on it.

A wren nested under the hubcap; she would go in and out through the center of the wheel.

She went along for many loads of cattle and raised a big family.

Lucky for her, I had several spare tires and never needed the one she was using.

I honestly sometimes think that birds are worse than mice.

 

We've had birds build nests in exhaust stacks of equipment before, never know they're there until you start up and it all comes shooting out.

 

That would be a rude awakening !!!

 

I'm gonna put a little trail of corn up to my exhaust pipe, see if I can get a squirrel to go in there. I'll have to make up a target in the yard, see if I can hit the bullseye with the black squirrel mark. After I get the accuracy down, then I'll go for range.

 

Now that made me laugh!

 

on our big 22' dump bed twin screw with a 290 cummins on it caught fire one day. luckly, we were almost home (bout 1/2 mile) when i smelled the smoke. approx 500 ft later the cab was filled and i had to stick my head out the window to see and breathe. 200 ft from our yard a air line blew, no doubt melted into, and we were fixing to loose air, thus, lockin up the brakes. so dad drove er in the yard real quick. i jumped out with the fire extinguisher and threw the hood open, and flames billowed up out from under the firewall. sure enough, a bird had built a nest on the exhaust mainfold and caught the whole thing on fire.

 

Just a couple weeks ago we had a couple little birds comming into the garage through the open flap of a make-shift doggy door. They were building a nest on some shelves near the door to the house. Very funny to sit still in the garage and watch them.

 

cat prob easy to solve take a carpet mat and an extension cord split and separate cord strip and expose bare wire secure to mat and put on roof at night and plug in!!!!! 1 less cat on the truck!!!!!! this does work but please be carefull !!!!!!!!

 

About 10 years ago we had a nesting pair of Cardinals on top of our garage opener. For those of you who know birds that is really weird. Cardinals are very skiddish birds. Anyway we stopped using teh garage for a couple of month until they were done.

 

They love the kingpin box on my fiver. One year, before the eggs were laid, I carefully removed the nest and tied it into a tree while mama and daddy watched and screamed. They went ahead and finished the nest and had their family. I would feed them once in a while to comfort them from dislodging them. We became quite friendly.

 

Mines been sitting too long in one spot, too. Today makes two weeks that the truck has been down with transmission out if it for a rebuild. Hopefully, I will get the tranny back in it tomorrow and get the truck moving again by Monday.

 

We have a ford 5600 tractor and we had grackles build a nest under the dash right behind the fuel tank. This is one of our most used tractors too. They did at least three seasons in a row, removed the nest all 3 times, for fire hazards of course, miserible place to get to. I also know it wasn't the same bird all three times.