Why Do Birds Swoop And Poop Over My Pool?

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Why Do Birds Swoop And Poop Over My Pool?

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Answer 1

If it only happens at this time of year, they're probably swallows gathering water to build their mud nests, and small flying insects from the surface of your pool to feed themselves and their nestlings. The pooping is just incidental, because they pretty much eat and eliminate constantly during breeding season. The little sacks of waste that they deliver to you are gifts from the baby birds. After feeding the chick eliminates a nice little pouch for the parent to pick up and dispose of to keep the nest clean and help keep predators from discovering the nest site... Why in your pool??? I can only surmise that in nature they would deposit them into a lake or ocean or other body of available water as a way of totally destroying the evidence... It would seem that, to them, your pool is the perfect urban alternative. ; )

Answer 2

Looks like your question is from last year, but I saw this when I actually Googled Swoop and Poop. You see, we have this terrible problem every spring. We have this wonderful pool in the backyard that has a cover on it until the first of June. Every spring, for about 3 weeks, our driveway, the cars, and especially the pool, get bombarded with bird poop. I mean poop at unimaginable amounts. We're talking' Ripley's Believe it or Not records here. We can sit on our deck, and watch the birds swoop over the pool with the precision of a fighter pilot and poop right in the middle of the pool cover. The once green cover, now appears as some kind of weird, abstract, artistic, nightmare. I think it has something to do with the combination of nest building, excitement and hormones. Yes hormones. I can't think of anything else that can explain such strange, unexplainable, yet predictable behavior. It's been like this as long as the pool's been up. We're probably at fault as well, since our 2 acres of property is landscaped, and we have a large variety of trees, many overgrown, which probably attracts more birds than usual.