No More Mr. Nice Guy

[agongos]

With a squirrel that kept chewing on a real nice mule deer rack I had hanging on a shed wall. That stopped all squirrel chewing. That mummified squirrel has been hanging thee for 11 years!

[Garf]

There are no tomatoes left with any red on them. The BB gun has only been able to terminate one crow. The rest just fly off. I need to upgrade my artillery. Some of that gets expensive. The trick of stringing the dead bird up over the plants doesn't work. It just stinks and the birds keep coming.

[Kisal]

The trick of stringing the dead bird up over the plants doesn't work. It just stinks and the birds keep coming.

That's because birds have little to no sense of smell.

[Bobberman]

I encorage birds to come to my garden. I plant plenty of sunflowers. I have never seen a crow in my garden only a few black sparrows & many caneries! Sparrows are bad for corn and lettuce when its young!

[Garf]

I have ordered an upgrade for my artillery. If this works as advertised, It should make a big difference.

[rainbowgardener]

We also encourage the birds to the garden, with bird baths, ponds, and bird feeders. I think lots of birds in the garden is why I have less trouble with insect pests. The netting protects the tomatoes and strawberries.

I'm guessing Bobberman's canaries might be goldfinches. Actual canaries are somewhat rare tropical birds in the wild. They don't exist in the states except as domestic pets and occasional escapees from same.

[Garf]

We had a lot of tropical parrots here for a while. They were escapees from the local zoo when the aviary was destroyed during a hurricane.

[cynthia_h]

Once crows show up, the other birds go away. At least, that's what happened in my yard/garden.

We have a large redwood tree that occupies the back yard. Crows moved in about two years ago, taking over the tree from eleven other species I had previously counted. Now there are only the crows and the @#$%$:x squirrels.

Occasionally I will see a flock of bushtits whirl through early in the morning, or a random hummingbird. But it's nothing like it was before the crows moved in.

Cynthia H.
Sunset Zone 17, USDA Zone 9

[Garf]

Sounds like as good a reason as any to have some target practice.

[webmaster]

The trick of stringing the dead bird up over the plants doesn't work. It just stinks and the birds keep coming.