Must....Kill....Cardinal

[Scooter2112]

I had a robin that would not stop flying into the house windows about 5-6 years ago. I tried everything to deter this thing from thinking it was another bird, etc.

This went on for about 3 weeks or so, until I couldn't take it anymore. Hated to do it, but I have a nice pellet gun with a scope on it. One shot took care of it. Haven't had the problem since. That thing had to be brain damaged at that point anyway after 20 days of trying to murder himself.

 

[Brians Evil Twin]

I have one at each end of the house. Keeps the f*cking woodpeckers from banging on the gutters at daybreak (little f*ckers!)...

You have that too? I thought I was the only one!

What the hell do they find so attractive about vents and gutters?

 

[Tone deaf]

You have that too? I thought I was the only one!

What the hell do they find so attractive about vents and gutters?

The noise. They are signaling. The owl decoy clears that up in a jiffy. My problem is with Northern Flickers (woodpeckers).

It started when my son was about two and they did it right outside his bedroom window. Scared the sh*t out of him. Sure enough, almost daily, at sunrise, I was out in the yard with a lacrosse stick and tennis ball keeping "it" away from his room. "It" turns out to be a flock of the little bastards. I shoo one off the roof and another would take its place. I called my old man. He said "Owl decoy." Ordered it online with overnight shipping. Problem solved. The cheeky little buggers were getting a little too comfortable at the other end of the house (beating the sh*t out of the fascia board of the roofline). So, I got another one.

 

[Brians Evil Twin]

The noise. They are signaling.

To where, Pluto? And why always at daybreak?

That racket will wake the dead!

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfkjyOzEKyQ[/ame]

 

[Tone deaf]

I like seeing the cardinals (especially the bright-colored males), but I really like seeing the Orioles. They are so bright that they seem too bright to be naturally occurring, at least up here in the North East).

 

[Tone deaf]

To where, Pluto? And why always at daybreak?

That racket will wake the dead!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfkjyOzEKyQ

The stupid little f*ckers are calling their friends saying "Hey! Come over here and help us drive these humans crazy!"

That is a Northern Flicker. There's no shortage of them. So, I wasn't necessarily opposed to committing a little bird-o-cide, but I figured my garbage man might turn me in if one day he saw a bag full of them in the trash...

Soon after that all started, I bought my son a stuffed woodpecker. He still has it (14 years later).

 

[SteveGangi]

We get almost every kind of bird - bluejays, cardinals, crows, mourning doves, warblers, finches, orioles, we even have redtail hawks in the neighborhood and a merlin of all things.

or is it maybe a sharp shinned hawk

 

[Tone deaf]

We get almost every kind of bird - bluejays, cardinals, crows, mourning doves, warblers, finches, orioles, we even have redtail hawks in the neighborhood and a merlin of all things.

or is it maybe a sharp shinned hawk

We have a few large red tails on our street. They seem to think that gray squirrels are tasty...

 

[JTM45]

Damn, you guys are really killing the birds because they $hit on your cars lol?

 

[Nicky]

Our house is smack-dab in the middle of one of the largest cardinal habitats in the world. Tens-of-thousands of them everywhere. Our high school mascot is the cardinal. We coexist with them nicely. Or, they just don't like Jeeps.

 

[kevinpaul]

Kevin, something tells me here that you just might be telling a fib.

A little birdie told me you might be on to something!

 

[AleisterCrowley]

$500 fine and up to 6 months jail time.


Federal Migratory Bird Act

 

[THDNUT]

$500 fine and up to 6 months jail time.


Federal Migratory Bird Act

But....but..Who is an eskimo.

 

[chasenblues]

$500 fine and up to 6 months jail time.

He was protecting his home from a crazed invader.

 

[AleisterCrowley]

He was protecting his home from a crazed invader.

"I feared for my life, officer."

 

[Mindfrigg]

Pffft. " Cardinal". We have a couple feral cats we feed on our back deck. The effin Bluejays feed themselves regularly on the cat food, bold as Ike.

I glanced out the window in my back door the other day and thought "what the hell is that!" Thought it was a hawk or crow on a branch. Nope. Fatass Bluejay.

 

[ErictheRed]

..dam...I thought you were going all out anti catholic clergy..

Me too, the way this forum goes, I thought it was going to be about a plot to kill the Pope or something.

It's not too late to turn it into a gun thread, though!!

 

[kevinpaul]

But....but..Who is an eskimo.

Ever have an Eskimo pie made out of real Eskimos? Like if they are on your own lawn? We got fake Eskimo pies in the summer made out ice cream, totally miss lead all the children.

 

[Mindfrigg]

I thought an eskimo pie was something an eskimo left in the snow?

Don't want to step in one o those.

 

[ErictheRed]

Hey guys, what's the best concealed weapon for going all Spanish Inquisition on a cardinal? Asking for a friend.