Is there anyway to keep hawks from my wild birds?
rockybird
7 years ago
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Comments (3)I responded to your post this morning, I guess it got lost in cyberspace. Anyways we have the same problem with our livestock dogs food. Our solution was to place their pail inside an upright 55 gallon pail, that has a hole in it for the dogs to stick their heads in. Over the hole, we have some of those clear curtain flaps. The dogs stick their head in but the birds can't or won't move it to enter. Maybe something like that would work for the geese-you'd have to show them how to get to it though. Feeding 1 time a day won't hurt them. The only problem with that rather than food 24/7 is that should you be running late or not able to feed them they won't get fed. Brendasue...See MoreKeeping birds/critters off my strawberries
Comments (2)No need to reinvent, there's a netting like you imagine using ;) The product you are looking for is available at Lowes, Home Depot, nurseries, hardware stores like Ace - really not hard to find. You can roll it back up end of season and use another year. Here is a link that might be useful: Bird Netting...See MoreHow to keep my cat from killing birds
Comments (91)To adhmumrgh: You create a contradiction in terms by writing "Cats are not domestic animals, humans have domesticated them." Cats are not domestic. Humans have domesticated them. You even claim to have domesticated a cat. Yet you state that cats are not domestic animals. What ???? ALL home/house/farm/ranch animals were (and mostly are) still found in the wild. This includes dogs, goats, horses, cows, sheep, et. al. Domestication is the process of adapting a wild animal (or plant) for human use. In the case of cats, that use is usually pleasure, companionship, or mousing. House cats and feral cats are of one species (Felis catus). Feral cats are house cats that have gone from domestication to the wild (the opposite direction of domestication), and any of their offspring. So, the great-great-great-great-great-great granddaughter of a house cat from 10 years ago is still Felis catus, even though her bloodline is largely from feral cats. She is no longer a domestic individual of a species that is largely domestic, and is considered feral. I have a cat that was a house cat (domesticated) that I got from a shelter. I also have a cat that was feral (not domesticated) that is now domesticated. So, counter to your original post, this cat is a domestic animal. Oh, and I domesticated it. As an aside, I keep both cats outside year round. They grow wonderful coats in the winter, they hunt, they anger me when they kill my songbirds, they play with my children, and are wonderful outdoor pets. There's very little I can do regarding their killing of my songbirds. The birds are wild, the cats still have wild instinct, and things like coyote spray, collars (break-away, or not) simply do not work. I've tried *everything* for 20+ years. I now accept, with grace, when one of my cats ceremoniously deposits a dead cardinal at my feed after she's viciously killed it -- it's a gift, and it's a cat. :-) Cheers!...See MoreBirds Nest in my fuschia, how to keep watering it?
Comments (8)Keep watering it, unless you are willing to let the plant die for the sake of the nest. Even then if it shrivels and drops all its leaves the concealment the bird is making use of will no longer be there anyway. If you water from the side only maybe the nest and eggs will actually float up and settle back down again each time, I don't know. Or maybe you could water more slowly, in sections, so that the nest isn't flooded....See Morerockybird
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