I like feeding wildlife too, don’t get me wrong but his pile of seeds attracts pigeons, squirrels, rats and who knows what else. When the seeds get rotten, he hoses the whole mess down and it floods my yard! Oh yes, we live in a big city, not a rural area.
Right now there are over 30 pigeons out on the electric and phone wires and they are making a mess on everything.
The other day I found a dead rat lying in my backyard on a concrete step. It was next to the basement door which is not underground. There have been a number of rodents digging around this area. There is a tunnel going under the house, and somthing dug under the door. one neighbor has horses and the other feeds the birds by throwing seed on the ground.
What may have killed the rat? It was intact and I didn’t see any wounds
What can I do about the rodents?
i’d like to hear from anyone in Washington Oregon area who is trying to attract these birds to reduce the insects for their horses. Particularly flies and mosquitoes. I saw 8 and 10 room swallow houses for about $100.00.
but the martin houses were $30.00 for only one nest box.
Any cheaper ways??
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We love nature, feeding the birds and watching the wild Therefore, we are looking for a nice tranquil place to relocate and retire. Love to walk and feel free, away from the big city. Not too cold, plenty of sunshine, no humidity. Planning a trip to explore, but don’t know where to go. Can anyone help with info.? Not necessarily Seattle. We were from California more to the north and love the weather. We would love to be near CA.
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I feed the birds out back, and at least everyday i chase about 5 cats from my neighorhood . We also have foxes and skunks that comes around at night i live in a rular area. I have alot of trees around our house.
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I had been planning to buy a young hand reared cockatiel for a while now, but in my regional area there aren’t many breeders and I would prefer not buying from a pet store. I have found one breeder who still has 8 of last season’s birds available, meaning they are hand-reared and she claims to handle them daily, they are apparently still very friendly, but they are a year old.
So, I was wondering, should I buy one of these? What the comparisons of how well you can bond with and train a year old cockatiel compared to one that has been recently weaned? Will it be that much different and harder?
I also have the option of asking her to pull a couple of chicks from a clutch she has now to hand rear, but apparently they are close to leaving the nest box and will be harder to rear and more flighty/harder to tame and bond with.
Or I could get one from a pet shop, but I’d prefer not to. OR I could put in an order for the next clutch she has to be hand reared, but she doesn’t even have a pair in a breeding cage yet, so that would be a while.
What do you think of the 12 month old ones in comparison? What do you think I should do? Any information and opinions appreciated, thank you!
Early today 5 pm ish I found a baby bird you know like those brown birds that fly around in the LA area well anyways we left it alone and my mom said it was okay to bring it in because 8:36pm and the momma bird has not come(it was very still against the wall I think it was cold ). What can I feed it until its old enough to fly and how long might that be? I have it in a box with tissue as padding.
Warrior drank water from a syringe but will not eat the mashed up dog food.
Warrior’s got feathers but its a thin layer not thin thin it’ll freeze but barely enough to keep it warm.
If later on today should I put Warrior back outside will the momma bird take it back? I think I know where it fell out of but what if that’s not its nest is it risky to put it back in since it was near my front door and not the orange tree? Also, I haven’t heard it cry at all and its been with me constantly is that bad? because it would open its mouth but no noise would come out.
