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Conger, MN | Had a similar problem with thousands of swallows that made a hunting lodge and outbuilding their colony. This was at a fall hunt this year in SD. Nobody had been there for two weeks . . . and in that time the swallows had taken over the place.
We arrived and the **** under the canopy was about 3 inches deep, with mud nests covering every beam. Same thing around the front and back of the lodge. The beautiful log siding and windows were all covered with ****. I'd never seen anything so bad.
We were there for a 3 day pheasant hunt. After we were done hunting the first day, we all used 7 1/2 & 8 shot and killed birds for a good hour. We filled 3 5-gallon buckets with dead swallows.
The next day, there were still hundreds if not thousands still there. Shot for another hour that afternoon. Over time, the swallows became a bit more careful, so we only got to shoot about a box of shells each, whereas the first night, we probably each shot 1.5 boxes each.
The third morning, we noticed that there were no swallows flying around. We thought that they were all out feeding or something. We again were looking forward to shooting more swallows that afternoon . . . but we got back and there was not a single one to be seen.
The owner of the lodge was thrilled. We were less pleased. Rather than shooting swallows again, we all pitched in knocking down nests, using ladders and long poles.
We actually had more fun shooting the swallows than pheasant hunting (although the pheasant hunting was awesome.) Cleaning up the mess was not fun . . . but we were happy to help.
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Trying to get rid of birds
