I would keep your excess ladybugs in a small screen type container and provide them with food and water...kept in a cool shady area maybe give them a good misting occasionally. Release maybe 20 per container at a time... They will probably fly off quickly, so I think you will need all of them. Unfortunately they don't stay on command :) I've heard of people spritzing them with a diluted sugar solution so they can't fly, but that seems a bit harsh to me though it may work...covering your containers with a fine mesh net secured all the way around may be effective, but would also be more work, and may be counterproductive because it would also trap the adult leaf hoppers in there...

The catbird is not my main problem. It's actually a small group of white-breasted nuthatches that are in the area. I caught two of those as well, but i did not have my camera on me to take a shot. Although I have plenty of berries yet to ripen as i have a lot of mid and late season varieties, so I am sure I will catch another. The robins have been congregating around the nets but they have not found a way in yet. I have a few dozen bunches of grapes and a plethora of blackberries right now. Those are my next netting projects.

We had a robin build a nest under our deck one year. Same area (near the ceiling) where your robins built their nest! The 2 babies fledged and left in good shape. We took care not to approach or bother them. I would put mealworms out for them away from the nest. The parents would watch for me. Sometimes the father would trot up and look at me while I was watering the flowers. MORE MEALWORMS please! The parents did not return the following year. I think it was because raccoons and groundhogs started coming around for the bird food and worms. I used to store peanuts in a plastic garbage can out on the deck. One night a creature chewed a hole in the lid. I didn't know what kind of animal was doing this so I replaced it with a metal can/metal lid and wrapped a chain over it. The next day the ungrateful beast had urinated all over it! I stopped storing the peanuts (any food) on the deck. I also had to cut back on the number and type of bird feeders because they were climbing on these and knocking the food out. No more mealworms either as raccoons and groundhogs like these as well. We finally had to hire a trapper. The groundhogs were tunneling under our deck and I didn't like how bold the raccoons were becoming. The trapper advised us to seal all the open areas (lattice) around our deck to prevent future invasions. We trapped several raccoons and groundhogs, a skunk and a couple of squirrels and a rabbit. We released the squirrels and rabbit. I would like to mention that the trapper said trapped squirrels can be so desperate to get loose, that they will frequently break their necks trying to get out of these Havahart traps. The ones we had trapped didn't do this because we were checking the traps 3x a day and didn't give them a lot of time to worry themselves to death. Chipmunks were also a problem this year. Our neighbor said he had caught 15 of them this year alone. Did you know that chipmunks can weaken your foundation/sidewalks? Now I know why a section of our front sidewalk dropped.....:( I'm hoping the robins will try again next year.

I'm in the berries. I made a nice job with netting and put boards down so the chipmunks could't get in. It worked! Here is yesterday's harvest!