Does anyone know anything about fledgling jackdaws?

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I’ve got a nest in my loft and it’s been an utter nightmare with noise and scratching.

It has, thankfully, almost completely died down, apart from about twenty minutes each morning about dawn.

Have they fledged? Can I get pest control in and the roof fixed?!

Hopeful bump.

I can tell you once they've fledged they won't go back to the nest. We had one hanging around our driveway, it slept in a flowerpot next to our side door. The parents noisy as anything calling from 4:30am in the morning. Once he went so did they. Wait until all goes quiet then get he hole filed so they can't come back. I don't think you need pest control unless you want them killed, that seems a it mean.

Oh I'm not having them killed! He's going to remove the nest and spray the loft.

It's just this twenty minutes in the morning that I hear them calling- haven't heard the feet in a while.

I am so desperate to get it all sorted.

Feel your pain! I've had some in my roof for months now.. they're so noisy!! Can't wait till they bugger off

They have probably fledged. It's not true they won't go back to a nest once fledged - they will. My parents have two chimneys next to each other, and jackdaws nested in one. The parent birds kicked then out, and each chick immediately and unerringly popped straight down the neighbouring chimney looking for an equally dark, welcoming space (and got stuck and needed rescuing!). I'm sure we had at least one of them come down twice.

But TBH, if they're near fledging/fledged, it is really easy to get them out - they're super friendly and you can just pick them up and carry them outside (I recommend wearing gardening gloves as they'll want to perch on your hand and their claw are sharp).

I am going nowhere near the little shites

We've just had a massive downpour and they've decided to visit Mum and Dad again. I am so ready to get rid of them. I want my roof patched up. It sounds like they're causing serious damage with all the scratching and banging.

Sorry.

They are awfully noisy and messy, I do know. I meant more that your man from pest control could, I think, quite easily pick them up and get them outside humanely if they did happen to still be there when he came.

I will double check they’re just moved out and not harmed. I wouldn’t want that.

Do you think I can now get him round though? As I say, the only thing I hear now is 20 mins of singing at dawn. Apart from today’s rain!

Oh, I absolutely would get him round!

I really didn't mean to make you feel worried or guilt-tripped about it. They are very noisy and you don't want them to damage your home. I really just wanted to stress that if you did happen to find that there were fledged birds there, they would be much easier to remove than most wild birds. Indeed if you found there were still a fledgling, at this point, unless you've wildly miscalculated, it's probably going to be very close to ready to leave the nest, and could be encouraged in that direction.