It is against the law to disturb these birds under the Migratory Bird Treaty
Act - until they are done nesting. Just so she is aware - even if an
"exterminator" does it, if some one wnated to make an issue about it they
could. Heidi Brunkal

----- Original Message -----
From: Linda B <llbart at scn.org>
To: Tweeters <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Friday, May 12, 2000 11:18 PM
Subject: Cliff Swallows


> From: Linda B <llbart at scn.org>
> To: Tweeters <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
> Subject: Cliff Swallows
> Date: Friday, May 12, 2000 10:06 AM
>
> A lady has just phoned me for advice & I'm wondering if anyone out there
in
> Tweeterland has had any experience with an interesting situation like
this.
> Seems this lady lives in a 2-story condo next to "The Lakes" in the Kent
> valley, and she has 18 cliff swallow nests in various stages of
construction
> along one side of her house. She returned from being out of town on May
2nd
> when she first noticed them. She has a neighbor with a completed nest
that
> has the tube-type opening at the bottom--hers aren't that far along yet.
>
> Altho she thinks the cliff swallows are beautiful birds and doesn't want
to
> hurt them, she says they really do not want the messy droppings that are
> accumulating on the house below and, secondly, she has had a history of
> childhood histoplasmosis which she understands is carried by bird
droppings.
>
> An exterminator will remove the nests for $300 and will put up screening
for
> $2,000 to prevent future nest building which she finds excessive.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Linda B.
> Kent
>
>
>