Help with Grackles

Hi All

I was wondering if any of you have the answer, There are two grackle nests on my neighbours property and when the little ones do there business in the nest the parents pick it up and drop it in my swimming pool. Needless to say when they do that they also do there business in the pool at the same time. This only starts once they have little ones!!
Any suggestions on how to control this
I am an avid bird lover and feed everything that comes to my yard with the excepton of the grackles, i can clean the pool and the next day it looks like a thousand birds did their business alllover it.

Suggestions please!!!!!!

A plastic owl keeps some birds away, I don't know about grackles.

I have always heard that birds cannot control their business. I don't know how true that is though.

sparker1 wrote in post #10146413
A plastic owl keeps some birds away, I don't know about grackles.

Thanks Stan, my neighbour tried that and they dumped on it as well as the pool

badams wrote in post #10160829
I have always heard that birds cannot control their business. I don't know how true that is though.

Thanks but i beg to differ on this i have witnessed them almost come to a stop over the pool and do their business. Also it is a sack that the young deposit in the nest and the parents pick it up and drop it in water..my pool

I'm confused. You live in Ontario Canada. Why is your pool not covered? I live in Ohio and nobody even considers opening their pool until June when SPRING finally arrives!!!

dave

snyderman wrote in post #10170894
I'm confused. You live in Ontario Canada. Why is your pool not covered? I live in Ohio and nobody even considers opening their pool until June when SPRING finally arrives!!!

dave

with the weather we have had the pool has been open and is currently sitting around 75F with the solar heater. Anyways that is besides the point.

The adults are hauling out the poop sacks from the juvies, keeping the nest clean. They prefer to drop them over water, cause in their minds it does not leave a trail back to their nest. Nothing you can do, it's built in to them.

canonloader wrote in post #10179204
The adults are hauling out the poop sacks from the juvies, keeping the nest clean. They prefer to drop them over water, cause in their minds it does not leave a trail back to their nest. Nothing you can do, it's built in to them.

All this time I thought grackles were a dirty bird !

Boy was I wrong.

The dirtiest birds I have seen are the little Hummers. By the time the babies fledge, the nest is crusted in crap. Looks like a drip candle. Terrible looking things.