Zen, you're a nicer person than I

I'm a meanie and have been trying to discourage the birds from nesting underneath my deck & sunroom. It's a bit unpleasant if I've got kayaks or bikes & the hot tub down underneath there and birds are expelling waste all over everything.

I left them last year, but they made a mess, so this year I've been trying to knock down the nests immediately after them making it. (not to mention my mom came along last year and knocked them down without asking me, so it's my goal not to have eggs or babies knocked down)

Which means I've knocked down about 3 nests a week this spring. It's getting a bit old.

Just in case you think I'm completely mean, I leave the nests they seem to have in my gutters and all through the maple trees in my front yard. I have 2 big maple trees which seem to literally have like 70 starlings living in them for half the summer (I can throw a stone up into the trees, watch a couple dozen fly out, throw another stone, and watch more fly out... ), which also make a bit of a mess & quite the racket when the trees are chattering which they start doing at about 4 in the morning. I leave the ground hog that lives underneath the shed, and let the bunnies eat my tomatoes. I just want the birds to stop nesting under my deck. I'll have to screen it in.