How to keep birds off my camera?

[readiescards]

Got a camera inside my porch but the swallows have taken to sitting on it and therefore I've bird muck all down the wall and on the post box below.

Easy problem to sort that I thought, I'll stick some nails on it.

 

The birds sit and sh*t on the nails ?

 

any other ideas please?

[Russell griffiths]

You need to go on blue peter. 

[Temp]

Put a steeply sloped/near vertical cover over it?

[Temp]

Then the spiders will feel more at home :-)

[PeterW]

Spikes are too short and too thick - need to be flexible but sharp. 

[Jeremy Harris]

These look to be pretty cheap and will probably do the job if fixed with some cable ties: https://www.birdspikesonline.co.uk/Bird-Spikes/Defender8-Bird-Spikes-Steel

[oranjeboom]

A few layers of chicken wire ? 

 

Or maybe this will scare them off:

 

Edited May 15, 2019 by oranjeboom

[readiescards]

While I wait for postie to delivery the new spikes I think the birds are taking the Micky building their nest on my home made bird protection system!

[Onoff]

I would have thought the solution was obvious...

 

 

 

[dimpsy]

https://www.birdfood.co.uk/swallow-nest-box.html

Why not fit a nest box on the wall, then they should leave the camera alone.

[SteamyTea]

I had some bird crap on my car, my Mother said "lucky she was not in it"