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If left alone for the weekend, would it work?

Posted on April 27, 2011 by admin| 4 Comments

Thought of building a bird house for feral pigeons… or at least some kind of shelter and see if a pair builds a nest on the balcony of the town house I live in.

There’s a few pigeons that live in my neighborhood and I have read about pigeons who have built nests on people’s balconies.

I plan on using a wooden crate used for shipping/holding wine as a ‘nest box’ for a pair of pigeons.

The crates are 100% and don’t have any opening on the sides.

They’re a good size and are a bit deep. I think they’d be big enough. The crate wil be left on the balcony of the townhouse I live in.

I also plan to do this in the spring and set out bird seed and water on the balcony. One thing though…

I’m going to LA in May for 3 days or more so the house will probably be empty. I thought about setting the crate, bird seed & water on the balcony before I leave…

think if the stuff is left alone for that amount of time, would a pair of pigeons come?

no jokes, please…

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Sick love bird, that died? any ideas, i dont want my other ones getting sick. (Symptoms listed below)?

Posted on August 22, 2010 by admin| 3 Comments

she lost alot of feathers, down feathers. Over the weekend my housemate spotted her on the ground (they live in an aviary) sitting in the the rain. all the birds often spend time on the ground, stripping the grass for nesting material and picking up seed so i didn’t give it a second thought.

someone suggested she was egg bound, there is two nesting boxes in the aviary, one already has a bird and her 4eggs in it, the other box seems to be abandoned, as every time i add nesting material too it they pull it out and put it in the other one (so i gave up)

they were treated for worms about 2mths ago.

there was four love birds (3female, one male) and 2 cockatiels (both male) that live in the aviary, its about 3×1.5×2.5m. fairly big, and they have lived in it together since january, before that they all lived in cages (cockatiels in one, two love birds in two separate cages)

any ideas? i just dont want my other birds getting sick.
i’ve never seen them fight, ever, not even over the eggs or boxes

and in the last 24hrs she died, i check them in the mornings and i found her at the bottom of the cage this morning.

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Is it illegal to shoot song birds in your garden in the UK?

Posted on July 7, 2010 by admin| 3 Comments

I just found out that the teenage idiot next door has had a visit from the police on Friday because he has been shooting the birds in the garden. My wife feeds some blackbirds in our garden and we had noticed over the weekend that all but one of them had disappeared and the remaining one had an injured leg. Apparently the police did not recover the air rifle involved as the yobo Aaron denies possession of a weapon. I know his parents were on holiday last week and this may have happened whilst they were away. I have tried phoning them and knocking on the door but there is no answer even though I know they are at home. What would you do about this moron and what do you think the law says about it. I`m so mad I could strangle the whole ******* lot of them.

I have already written a few lines for the village magazine outlining what has happened.

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Is it illegal to shoot song birds in your garden in the UK?

Posted on July 7, 2010 by admin| 3 Comments

I just found out that the teenage idiot next door has had a visit from the police on Friday because he has been shooting the birds in the garden. My wife feeds some blackbirds in our garden and we had noticed over the weekend that all but one of them had disappeared and the remaining one had an injured leg. Apparently the police did not recover the air rifle involved as the yobo Aaron denies possession of a weapon. I know his parents were on holiday last week and this may have happened whilst they were away. I have tried phoning them and knocking on the door but there is no answer even though I know they are at home. What would you do about this moron and what do you think the law says about it. I`m so mad I could strangle the whole fucking lot of them.

I have already written a few lines for the village magazine outlining what has happened.

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If left alone for the weekend, would it work?

Posted on May 24, 2010 by admin| 4 Comments

Thought of building a bird house for feral pigeons… or at least some kind of shelter and see if a pair builds a nest on the balcony of the town house I live in.

There’s a few pigeons that live in my neighborhood and I have read about pigeons who have built nests on people’s balconies.

I plan on using a wooden crate used for shipping/holding wine as a ‘nest box’ for a pair of pigeons.

The crates are 100% and don’t have any opening on the sides.

They’re a good size and are a bit deep. I think they’d be big enough. The crate wil be left on the balcony of the townhouse I live in.

I also plan to do this in the spring and set out bird seed and water on the balcony. One thing though…

I’m going to LA in May for 3 days or more so the house will probably be empty. I thought about setting the crate, bird seed & water on the balcony before I leave…

think if the stuff is left alone for that amount of time, would a pair of pigeons come?

no jokes, please…

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