Red Mosquito

There’s also my insatiable bloodlust

Ffs that is not a good top pager

i had to do something similar a few years ago when they wouldn’t stop nesting in the mechanical joint section of my rear retractable awning

they would nest and if I wanted to open it, would mean crushing the birds

but then in the meantime they shit everywhere below on my deck

first attempt at deterrence I put this this sticky stuff meant to dissuade them but they found a spot

then the next year i put metal spikes but they worked around it

then i went nuclear with an over the top combo of both, and when I saw them beginning to build just kept breaking it apart mid construction

they were pissed

sad moment though was finding one of the parents in the back corner significantly wounded in the leg from the sticky stuff

dude was in a bad way and looked up at me like he stepped on a land mine like ‘why did you do this’

i took a shovel and had to finish him off

i still remember the look in his eyes

not proud

moral of the story: next time i would just focus on breaking up the nest before it is complete and they will prob learn to not come back

and avoid all the machinery of death and deterrence

bart wrote:I had to kill some baby birds last year after their terminally stupid bird parents built their nest in my wife’s wreath on our front door, and now it seems I’m gonna have to kill whole families of finches that have made nests in our deck awning. This time maybe I’ll mount their tiny heads on toothpicks to warm away their dumbass bird friends

Monstrous

Twitter is getting rid of the bird symbol

Numbers that is exactly where these birds are nesting, in the retractable machinery. I read that various essential oils can repel them but a) most of them also attract insects and b) I’m not spraying oil all over my awning and siding just to save some Darwin Award candidate birds

E.H. Ruddock wrote:Twitter is getting rid of the bird symbol

I thought that's why this thread had been bumped

bart wrote:Numbers that is exactly where these birds are nesting, in the retractable machinery. I read that various essential oils can repel them but a) most of them also attract insects and b) I’m not spraying oil all over my awning and siding just to save some Darwin Award candidate birds

i used Bird-B-Gone gel

it kind of worked

but kind of not

and if it drips down it's gonna stain whatever it touches

cutting the metal spikes into custom fitting sizes was a huge pain in the ass

just gotta go back there every day with a stick and knock their shit out

the birds have a time window where they gotta lay the egg, if they can't get that nest going they will go build it somewhere else

in japan they were using the dry cleaner wire hangars too

Egret spotting.

Long, white, swooping thing... like a whisker from Odin's beard.

Flew right over the yard as I put out some recyclables.

sick

neighbor has a cherry tree with berries in ripening stage

attracting a lot of birbs

there used to be a cardinal that would always come and eat

have not seen him yet

First trip to the lake (this year).

The ducks were aggressive, but they were many.

elliseamos wrote:First trip to the lake (this year).

The ducks were aggressive, but they were many.

Day two.

A plethora of ducks.

be wary that duck poop

a lotta funk in there

was up before sunrise today and the birds started their AM chirping at 4:53am

early birds getting the worms

96583UP wrote:be wary that duck poop

a lotta funk in there

Believe me I know. Duck itch is no joke.

ellis when he gets back from the lake