Sigarms
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Shooting a Woodpecker.
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We have blue bird nests up around the garden that the blue birds use to our delight, and humming bird feeds out that they all seem to enjoy every year.
First year a woodpecker that comes across our house in 18 years or so doing what nature had intended him to do, I'm not going to take the lazy way out using the SSS method.
As I've gotten older I've come to the conclusion that killing something to solve your issue it the lazy way out.
That said, wasps or yellow jackets when found generally get gone, particularly when they're found by accident.
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My brick house deters them pretty good!!!
I think I saw that in a Grimm's Fairy Tale once... something about a house of straw, a house of wood and a house of brick.My brick house deters them pretty good!!!
Also three little pigs and a big bad wolf.
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Porky should've had a Chicago typewriter!
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“ Chicago Typewriter “ first time I heard that one, and I was raised in the Bronx!
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My brick house deters them pretty good!!!
Same, they don't seem to find too many bugs in brick.
This past spring, I had to take out a Robin. I hated to do it, my mom always told me, "don't you shoot my Robins!"
The thing was pecking on our bedroom window non-stop. It was driving us crazy and my wife couldn't focus on work (she works from home). After about 3 or 4 days of it I had had enough and sent it to bird heaven. It bothered me, not going to lie. I could just hear my mom (died in 2020) and I didn't tell my dad. The only birds I shoot with glee is a starling.
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My parents used to have a bird feeder in front of the living room window but there was one species of bird which would drive all of the others away, then spread the bird seed all over the ground. My father got a Nerf gun which shoots foam darts with suction cups. Every time one of those birds came to the feeder he would shoot the window to scare them off.
My parents used to have a bird feeder in front of the living room window but there was one species of bird which would drive all of the others away, then spread the bird seed all over the ground. My father got a Nerf gun which shoots foam darts with suction cups. Every time one of those birds came to the feeder he would shoot the window to scare them off.
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I would love to hear all of your ideas on how to get rid of starlings. They are like flying rats. They are getting into my sons barns and literally putting a layer of crap on everything.
They are in my MILs big barn, where all of the equipment is, tearing out the insulation on the ceiling and crapping on tools, equipment etc. They need to go.
I don't mind the song birds (sparrows, wren etc.) I can tolerate them as they are not as destructive. I hate starlings though.
They are in my MILs big barn, where all of the equipment is, tearing out the insulation on the ceiling and crapping on tools, equipment etc. They need to go.
I don't mind the song birds (sparrows, wren etc.) I can tolerate them as they are not as destructive. I hate starlings though.