Destructive Bird

Every day this week except the snow day a bird has been relentlessly attacking our front windows and crapping all over the wooden railing on our covered front porch. (re-painting required) No amount of scaring it away worked. Even an owl decoy. Nothing. So I did what had to be done. I shouldn’t have waited this long but I’m getting softer as I get older. It was a tricky operation as I live in a tight suburban neighborhood and it was the front yard. I decided on a lowly BB gun. Actually it was a pellet/BB gun but I used a BB. You know the elcheapo Crossman type that everyone had as a kid. I went ultra low velocity for safety and chose my angle wisely. I was shocked at how quiet the (borrowed) weapon was. pffffft. The most annoying bird I have ever seen in my life dropped immediately but I could tell it was not hurt badly. That’s when my girl joined in! My bird dog thinks its hunting season 365 days a year. I didnt even know she snuck out behind me but she was a blur as that bird sprinted for the hills. She snatched it right on the property line and made a perfect retrieve. The bird was fully alive, for a few seconds……..we have peace once again on our front porch. Now I just need to clean up 5 days worth of bird $h*@. Did I mention a crap apple tree hangs over our porch and that’s all that bird had been eating?

Cardinal or robin?

Acting goofy from eating fermented apples?

Timmy wrote:

Acting goofy from eating fermented apples?

5 day bender? Maybe. Dont drink and fly!

BK-Not a cardinal.

The lower-power el cheapo pellet guns are awesome for urban pest control. 2 years ago we had rabbits eating everything in sight, so I bought a Daisy 880 and declared war. Cheap 4 power scope and the thing easily shoots golfball sized groups at 25 yards which is all I need. I think I have about $65 into the whole setup.

Amazing performance for only 600 FPS max. Tips the bunnies right over, dead in their tracks and the noise sounds nothing like a gunshot. Crack the window, whack the bunny, shut the window, discreetly remove dead bunny from lawn an hour later. Bunnies are now dang near an endangered species around here.

I like pellets rather than BBs as a .177 pellet won’t ricochet off grass or soft ground and even if it tumbles, it’s so deformed that its velocity bleeds off within feet even on frozen ground.

Grouse

Nice Grouse. I’ve done the same through door cracks with my Sheridan but that thing is LOUD and currently at the cabin. Might have to get one of these mini-pumps at home? Although there was that “incident”. I used to be in the habit of sniping sparrows to protect my blue birds. They were pure evil towards blue bird nests and using their boxes. One time I got a ric that slapped a neighbors siding. A neighbor I didnt even know. Luckily nothing came of it but I stopped sniping that day and gave up helping the poor blue birds. By that time the pines trees in our back yard had started crowding the blue bird boxes so it was getting harder to attract them. Now the boxes are gone.

My Mom got called in a few times in Shoreview for having a gun pointed out the kitchen window. She was trying to keep squirrels out of her bird feeders. She was lacking in stealthy ninja skills though.
Grouse, do you ever eat your rabbits? Wouldn’t haussenfeffer(sp) be a normal thing for Mrs Grouse?

right on iowaboy!
My bad Grouse. Hausenpfeffer is German. Not English……

Friend lived out a ways and got mad at the squirrels attacking his bird feeders and decided to shoot them with his scoped 22 from the upstairs window. Lined up his shot a few feet back from the widow lining up the crosshairs on the squirrel and with the scope zoomed didn’t see the casing on the window. Shattered the bottom of the window case. Still laugh everytime I think about it.

I once watched a guy use his truck hood as a rifle rest. Muzzle blast ruined the paint. He didn’t know it until a while after.

I posted about a Robin taking to a seed block earlier today and it turns out that this bird has an attitude from he// too. This darned thing would take after my goldfinches and downy woodpeckers with a vengeance. A chickadee lit on the suet feeder closest to the seed block while that Robin was on it and the Robin drove that Chickadee right into the side of the house hard enough to wreck the little bird. I went out and chased the robin off and had to put the Chickadee out of its misery as it had a broken wing after the attack.

This critter has to go.

There is an overabundance of robbins.

suzuki wrote:

There is an overabundance of robbins.

Overabundance, that are frustrated with the weather.

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Stay classy IDO
https://www.fws.gov/laws/lawsdigest/migtrea.html

Now this would be considered a destructive bird.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/large-flightless-bird-kills-florida-owner-62382669

Pailofperch wrote:

Grouse, do you ever eat your rabbits? Wouldn’t haussenfeffer(sp) be a normal thing for Mrs Grouse?

From the age of 10 or so Mrs. Grouse went to an all-girls boarding school in Yorkshire. If you can believe this, they had rabbit on the menu once a week. I cannot imagine trying to serve rabbit once a week to a dining hall full of girls from 10 to 18, I mean who thought that sounded like a great idea?

Mrs. Grouse, as is typical of many Europeans, loves to eat game. Especially venison, pheasant, and duck. Unsurprisingly, she won’t touch rabbit.

Grouse