How to keep birds from perching on window sills

Birds will usually gather on windowsills for the reason that they give a perch and shelter. If pest birds have a tendency to collect on your windowsill and go away dollops of bird droppings for you personally to clean up just about every day, you could have to implement some critical bird proofing actions. Aside from jamming up your windows, bird droppings can have any of 60 identified diseases--including West Nile Virus, Avian Flu, and Histoplasmosis--which can waft into your house whenever you open your window. Furthermore, the uric acid in bird droppings can consume into the paint, wood, vinyl or aluminum of your windowsill and completely mar these surfaces.

To discourage birds from gathering in your windowsills, you are able to use a item named Transparent Bird Gel. Ideal for use against both little and large pest birds, this gel is often a low-profile bird deterrent that functions effectively anyplace pest birds have come to be a nuisance. Bird gel comes inside a standard 10-ounce caulking tube, twelve tubes per situation. Every single tube of bird gel is adequate to efficiently treat an location roughly 10 feet long by 3 inches wide. decorative hanging bird cages The gel is readily utilized utilizing a standard caulking gun and it stays sticky and powerful for up to six months outdoors.

Incidentally, when you have birds flying into your window, or pecking at it, there are decals it is possible to utilize towards the window that will support birds understand the surface and ignore their reflection.

If, on the other hand, pest birds are always pecking and pooping in your rooflines, you've got an equally frustrating and possibly pricey dilemma. Birds normally collect on the best factors of a house to acquire the ideal vantage position for predators and food. The challenge is, birds normally tear apart meals products they convey as much as your roof. This involves pecking at it with their beaks and ripping at it with their claws. This could harm and degrade the roofing crowns and tiles, and eventually cause leaks.

Right here, again, Transparent Bird Gels is usually an efficient bird control alternative. But you are able to also use Bird Spikes to obtain rid of birds on rooflines. The spiked strips make a most inhospitable landing zone that birds would much quite keep away from. Blunted and safe for birds, pets and people, the spikes are available in sturdy stainless steel or stiff, unbreakable polycarbonate. To mix in a lot more naturally with your roofline, poly spikes now can be found in several colors--including crystal very clear, brick red, light grey, brown, black and tan. One more advantage plastic spikes present is that they can be made use of in places exactly where metal spikes may well trigger signal interference challenges along with your Tv dish or ham radio antenna. Bird spikes with a U.V.-protected polycarbonate base are recommended in hard weather.

For homes near the sea or other massive body of h2o, there is the Mega Spike, which capabilities daunting 7-inch spikes to deter seagulls, cormorants, turkey vultures and raptors. The marine-grade stainless metal spikes are incredibly resilient. You are able to also get crush-proof, non-reflective spikes using a metal complete that mix in aesthetically on most roofs.

cockatiel bird cages Finally, you can find the Bird Sonics. These bird repellent products can keep birds from landing, roosting and nesting anyplace near your homeincluding windowsills and rooflines. The units emit predator and distress appears that birds instinctively wish to stay clear of. In addition they exploit a bird's organic fear of predators, also as their acutely delicate hearing (birds can approach appears in 1/200th of the 2nd

Our bird control experts have recommended the best products to help keep birds off your windowsills. Below we have divided products to stop pigeon sized birds and deterrents for smaller birds such as sparrows. Smaller birds are agile and are able to defeat products that are designed for larger birds such as pigeons. 

Windowsill Deterrents for Pigeons 

These windowsill bird deterrent products prevent pigeon sized birds from perching comfortably on flat surfaces. Bird Spikes and Bird Wire are two very effective products designed to stop pigeon sized birds or larger.

Stainless Steel Bird Spikes 

• 10-year warranty against UV breakdown
• Widths: 3-in, 5-in and 8-in
• Box Sizes: 10-ft, 24-ft, and 50-ft
• Each 2-foot section of spike can break into smaller sections
• Installation: Glue or screw down to windowsill

Bird Wire 

• Low profile stainless steel posts and thin wire system
• Screw down bases to windowsill
• Thin wire prevents pigeons from landing on window ledge

Windowsill Deterrents for Small Birds (sparrow sized)

The following deterrents prevent small birds such as sparrows from perching on windowsills. 

SpectrumV Bird Gel Dishes

• Easy to glue down gel dishes to flat surfaces
• Stops All Bird Species; small medium and large
• Gel uses site, sense and smell to repel birds
• Replace every couple months

Bird OFF Gel

• Smell and Sticky feeling discourages birds from windowsills
• Easy clean-up with soap and water
• Apply with caulking gun in 3” zig zag pattern
• Available in 10 oz. caulking tubes
• Not for use on porous or vertical surfaces

Are Birds Flying into Your Windows?

We have a blog post covering this exact topic. 

Read About: How to Stop Birds from Flying into Windows [Simple Effective Solutions]

Professional Recommendations

If you are unsure of which bird deterrents to install on your windowsill, please give our Bird Control Experts a call at 1-800-392-6915. Our team of experts are ready to identify the problem and help find the best possible solution for your windows.   

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