Overnight raid results in carnage
At the bird house. This is the scene I was met with this morning as I made my rounds of the garden. The bird house sits atop a 20' pole. No obstacle for a hungry coon.
I'm sure they were after eggs but a meal of young fledglings wasn't passed up either. Mostly bits and pieces strewn about the ground underneath. One good sized starling baby was dragged to a flower bed and decapitated - not eaten at all. Makes me so mad and sad.
I take down bird feeders and stop throwing out corn in Spring. The neighbors feed year round and the husband delights in tossing marshmallows to the coons. ugh. He's kind hearted, but the animals are NOT. I find piles of coon poop full of bird seed, I even see a pile on my garage roof.
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The house is a replica of one my Uncle built in 1949 and finally succumbed to the elements and replaced in 2012. My have originally been a purple martin house but now home to sparrows and the occasional starling. Yep, the starling squeezes into the very top dormer "apartment". I was surprised because the drab gray/brown fledgling was pretty big. I'm wondering now if it was a female caught off guard or defending the nest.
I need to get up there and do a good house cleaning after nesting season (when is that for sparrows? ha) however I'd need a really big ladder and I'm afraid of heights. The guys who took it up there used scaffolding. Besides, the birds use it for shelter during the winter so I feel bad about pulling all material out. Need to make some phone calls to hire somebody.
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