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  1. TheForce

    TheForce Stop War! Lets Rave! Make Love!

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    I was getting ready to mount some more security cameras form my house and when I took a look in the attic I found this.

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    Birds are the one of the animals I like but when they get annoying like this I hate them.

    I'm in the process of removing the mess now in the 120+ degree attic. :mad:
     
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  2. Chuck.

    Chuck. Former Honda Enzyte Driver

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    Guess you are asking how to discourage the burdz from building more nests?
     
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  3. TheForce

    TheForce Stop War! Lets Rave! Make Love!

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    Well I need to go buy some screen to cover the vent. The current screen is a thin cloth like screen with holes in it. I'm going to get some heavy aluminum screen to use.

    Luckily there was just eggs and no baby birds. I got about 20% of it removed. Theres a good 4-5 garbage bags of grass there. I'm going to finish it in the morning when its a little cooler.
     
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    Whatever you do, don't get pigs to come over and destroy the nest. That just makes the birds mad.
     
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    hey it is 100% better then squirrels, trust me!
     
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    ya, and red squirrels are the worst! nice looking attic by the way!
     
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  7. TheForce

    TheForce Stop War! Lets Rave! Make Love!

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    Found this while looking through my alarm footage.

    This is the same bird or same kind of bird that was nesting in my house. Look at that #$@!%! showing off. :mad:

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    taunting penalty!
     
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    Poor thing will be homeless now.
    Hey where is your ceiling insulation?
     
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  10. TheForce

    TheForce Stop War! Lets Rave! Make Love!

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    There is a nice 100' tall tree just about 100' from the house. They can live there. :)

    The insulation is there. The boards are just tall. The house was built in the 60's.
     
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    You can't blame a bird for wanting the good life in da 'hood.
     
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  12. 2k1Toaster

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    That's a really cool actions shot!

    I have a woodpecker at one house that will not go away. And they are endangered so nothing that can really be done. I hung some strips of aluminum foil from the soffits and they flutter in the wind and scare them all away. Not bad for a couple cents worth of foil.
     
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    Starling, non native invasive species, shoot it!
     
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    Good one.
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    Meh. I went out one day last fall to find that a woodpecker had bored through my siding and emptied an entire stud bay of its insulation. That was a royal PITA to fix, and the only thing that seems to keep them away is shiny (read: ugly) pie plates all over the east side of the house. I put up what I think to be a compatible nesting box but I have no idea if it helped.

    That was just a small one. A pyleated just took up residence in the nearby woods. I can't imagine what that monster would do. :eek:
     
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    I know there is a bird out there that is going "Motherf#@*%$ just f*@#$% up my crib yo!!!"
     
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  18. TheForce

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    When I was removing the nest I actually seen the bird trying to get in. It seen me and I kid you not this is what the bird looked like before I scared it away.

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    Woodpeckers, and most other small birds, are deathly afraid of owls. I have an owl decoy mounted on a pole in front of my house. The woodys who used to peck holes in my siding have moved away entirely. I have noticed owl decoys on power poles, antennas, and lots of other places which might otherwise turn into nesting places.
     
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    Mockingbirds are VERY FEARLESS and territorial.

    A year ago, one was doing all kinds of obscene squeaking near it's nest and the hawk - five times it's size just sat there as if to say: "so what?" :p
     
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