Atomictumor

Every year, we get birds nesting in our attic vents.  Normally, we don’t notice until the bastards have already laid their eggs, and being the sentimental loser that I am, I can’t stomach pitching the little things from the rafters into their doom on the cold hard concrete of the driveway, which means we get to have a few months of birdy chirping waking us up at 7 AM.

They can’t get into the attic proper because of the mesh wiring behind the vents, but that doesn’t stop em from getting into the vents.  I have had a hard time finding options for keeping the bastards from nesting there, other than putting ugly wiring all over the top of our house.  Not a good thing.

Sooo, I seem to have a couple of choices.  I can buy an attic cat, and just let it loose up there (or maybe some attic snakes), but I don’t see that turning out well.  I can go up every day and get rid of the nests they’ve made, but that would go against my basic laziness, and navigating in the attic is difficult on account of all the crap I have up there.  I have a lot of crap.

So, I’m, once again, appealing to the hive mind of the intarweb tubes.  Would mothballs work?  Maybe an automatic flamethrower?  Mousetraps?

Robots?

What is going to tell these birds that my attic is spoken for?