I had sunflowers on my patio. and I gave the seeds this squirrel since the birds weren’t eating them, ( and now I just found out that my boyfriend has been feeding it peanuts) but now he just hangs around on the patio when my boyfriend goes outside the squirrel runs up to him and will get extremly close and run circles around him, is it being friendly, i’m afraid it will bite him? what dieases do squirrels have?
is it safe to let them come up to you?
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Tagged birds, boyfriend, circles, patio, peanuts, seeds, squirrel, sunflowers
Last night my husband found a baby morning dove on our front patio. We put it back in the nest but the parent birds flew off and didn’t return until this morning. I put the baby in a box on a heating pad for the night and returned it to the nest this morning. To my surprise there was another baby on top of some bushes by my front door and one of the parents was there pretending to have a broken wing.
Later I checked on the nest and the baby I returned to the nest was on the patio again. An hour later both babies are under one of the parent birds in the middle of my sidewalk.
This isn’t a safe place. I live near an open space with snakes and many feral cats. Is there a way to get them all some place safer?
Thanks for the answers. I can’t move them to my back yard because I have two dogs. I have put up a sign asking people not to use the sidewalk up to my front door. The babies are under a bush with one of the parents. I will hope for the best.
Posted in Bird Nest Boxes
Tagged baby, box, bushes, Dove, heating pad, husband, Morning, morning dove, nest, night, parent, parent birds, parents, patio, sidewalk, surprise
i have an outside lattice covered patio atop concrete slab that leads to our pool…… an hour ago, while picking up dog poo , i came upon a baby bird which had fallen from its nest made inside our latice covered patio… we tried to return it to its nest (using a dust pan so as not to touch the little guy) but it didnt work. so i found a box, shredded some paper for a nest and transfered it from dust pan to box and placed him in the planter. using a coffee grinder i ground some bird seed, added water & tried feeding it cuz it kept opening its mouth wide …. he got a little of my many attempts giving him food, then it looked like he wanted to go to sleep in the paper nest made for him. so i covered the box 3/4 of the way. Now what??? will he just die??? will mom return??? or should i start feeling guilty each time i hear a chirp.? i work, have other animals that need me & dont know what else to do? any suggestions????? help
I bought a bird feeder. I hung it on my back porch and filled it with seed. Within a week we had hundreds of birds taking advantage of the continuous flow of free and easily accessible food. But then the birds started building nests in the boards of the patio, above the table, and next to the barbecue. Then came the poop. It was everywhere: on the patio tile, the chairs, the table… Everywhere.
Then some of the birds turned mean: They would dive bomb me and try to peck me even though I had fed them out of my own pocket. And others birds were boisterous and loud: They sat on the feeder and squawked and screamed at all hours of the day and night and demanded that I fill it when it got low on food. After a while, I couldn’t even sit on my own back porch anymore. I took down the bird feeder and in three days the birds were gone. I cleaned up their mess and took down the many nests they had built all over the patio. Soon, the back yard was like it used to be… Quiet, serene and no one demanding their rights to a free meal.
Now lets see… Our government gives out free food, subsidized housing, free medical care, free Education and allows anyone born here to be a automatic citizen. Then the illegals came by the Tens of thousands. Suddenly our taxes went up to pay for free services; small apartments are housing 5 families: you have to wait 6 hours to be seen by an emergency room doctor: your child’s 2nd grade class is behind other schools because over half the class doesn’t speak English: Corn Flakes now come in a bilingual box; I have to press “one” to hear my bank talk to me in English, and people waving flags other than “Old Glory” are squawking and screaming in the streets, demanding more rights and free liberties.
Maybe it’s time for the government to take down the bird feeder !!!!
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Tagged advantage, back porch, barbecue, Bird, bird feeder, birds, chairs, continuous flow, feeder, flow, patio, poop, porch, seed, TABLE, tile, time, week
I’m worried about me and my dog, if i feed birds on my patio. I live in southern,CA.
My neighbors who are in their 80′s, were cutting their vines and found this nest. I don’t know why, but they put the nest on their patio and just left it. It has been 2 days and 98 degrees outside. My son who is 8yrs old found the nest while over there and brought them home. He is begging me to save them…..Can I do anything? Is it to late?
We kept them in the nest, put the nest in a shoe box with a towel around it and he has a beanie baby sitting on the eggs to keep them warm.
I know odds are against us……but if there is any thing I can do. I have to try for my son. PLEASE, Help me!!!!
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Tagged 98 degrees, anything, birds nest, blue eggs, HELP, home, neighbors, nest, patio, son, vines
We’re planning on bldg 2 nesting boxes for house finches or birds under our patio. Will they nest there?
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Tagged birds, bldg, finches, house, house finches, nest, nesting boxes, patio, planning
