Ack......the robin is back again this year trying to build a nest on my front porch light next to my front door.

[a kennedy]

I know, I know, let nature win, and no I just can’t, I have to use that door to feed all my other birds. I can’t believe ALL the stuff she finds for her nest building. It’ll be about a week with me every day pulling down all her material for her to get the hint she can’t build there. I know I’m a meany. Not sorry.

[Walleye]

1. Hey, you gotta protect your own habitat

[Hope22]

2. Can you stuff a box or egg carton up there until she gives up?

It might save both of you some frustration!🤣😁

[a kennedy]

3. I tried putting a heavy metalish can up there she just put the material on top of the can!!!

Gotta hand it to her, she’s a determined little bitch. I think it would have to be something with a pointed top so she can’t use the flat surface.

[efhmc]

11. I wedged a board into that space and it solved the problem. Don't know if that will work for you but it did for me.

[EYESORE 9001]

4. You got a robin

I got a wren. We hardly use our front door anyway, so the nest remains.

[magicarpet]

5. Have you tried placing an owl figurine in the area,...

... where she wants to construct her nest ?

How about bird/pigeon spikes. Available at Home Depot.

[a kennedy]

6. Hmmmmmm, owl figurine......that is possible......but those spike things??? Yikes, a big fat no to those.

[magicarpet]

7. Well with the spike thing,... the bird does not get stabbed by them.

It is just that they have no place to land without getting poked - so they move on to a less uninviting place.

[Bluestocking]

8. Install a birdhouse made for Robins

Next to the spot

[WheelWalker]

9. Point well taken. Within the curtilage I will abide neither

rattlesnakes nor poison oak residing.

[GreenWave]

10. Our loving crows get rid of them silently. They raid the unguarded eggs.

Victory in the end game tactic.

[NJ2NC]

12. Birds nest

Try putting lemon slices in the nest.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

17. Welcome to DU

[SWBTATTReg]

13. For years and years, I had robins who built a nest on top of my outdoor garage lights, but the lights never

seemed to bother them. It's a tradition to us now, so the coming of Spring means that the robins will soon be returning.

[a kennedy]

18. For the last 2 years morning doves have used a robins nest under our soffit.

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My husband, when he was alive, put up a 5 x 5 platform for the robins. 2 years ago the doves took it over and for the last 2 years have used it for their babies. We’d laugh as the doves are larger then the robins and would be larger then the nest, but they’d have at least 3 batches every year. Saw them there again this year, but it was a couple of days ago, haven’t seen them since, hope they’re gonna use it this year.

[Luciferous]

14. We put a softball on top of our light

fixture.

[Vinca]

15. My husband is tormented by swallows that get into the garage and nest in the rafters. He lets them be, though,

and hoses out the garage when they exit the building. It's been a pattern for years and years. The swallows don't come back to Capistrano, they come back to our garage.

[JustKay]

16. A rubber snake would solve the problem.