Spring in the Frozen Tundra

[K0RGR]

Well, we have critter issues here, this week, too. I haven't got a picture of this winged varmint yet, but I've had a stare down contest with him several times already, and it hasn't phased the little bugger one little bit.

For the last three days, we've had an enormous male robin beating on our windows, starting shortly before sunrise, and going all day. Don't think of the cute little worm hunter you usually see this time of year. This is a snarling little beast with vengeance in it's eyes.

Shooing him away works for about 20 minutes, and then, he's back again. We thought he was seeing himself in the windows, and attacking what he thinks is another male robin in his territory, but if so, he has a screw loose. I opened the curtains and turned on the lamp inside and stood there watching him. No effect. When I chase him away from the windows, I can hear him hitting the side of the house, instead.

My wife took some of her knitting yarn and hung that in the windows. So far, it has slowed him down, but every so often, I still hear a 'thunk'. I went out and bought some big shiny stars that I'm going to tape to the windows. They are red stars, which will probably confirm the neighbor's suspicions that we are really communists over here.

We found out our neighbor has nets over his window because he's had this problem in the past. Last year, we had a female robin that insisted on making nests on our front porch. We'd move the nest, and the next day, there would be another one! This went on for several days. These birds are persistent!

We have many other kinds of birds around here, and they are mostly benign. There is a woodpecker I'm going to shoot someday because he likes the side of my house, too. But other than that, they are actually beneficial. The bluejays keep the undesirables out (though some consider the jays to be undesirables). But these robins must have the killer instinct! When you see one from now on, realize that he is quietly plotting your death!

[WØTKX]

We get a foot or more of snow, then it melts.

It's a common cycle in the spring.

But it started in Feb this year. :shock:

[K7SGJ]

Well, we have critter issues here, this week, too. I haven't got a picture of this winged varmint yet, but I've had a stare down contest with him several times already, and it hasn't phased the little bugger one little bit.

For the last three days, we've had an enormous male robin beating on our windows, starting shortly before sunrise, and going all day. Don't think of the cute little worm hunter you usually see this time of year. This is a snarling little beast with vengeance in it's eyes.

Shooing him away works for about 20 minutes, and then, he's back again. We thought he was seeing himself in the windows, and attacking what he thinks is another male robin in his territory, but if so, he has a screw loose. I opened the curtains and turned on the lamp inside and stood there watching him. No effect. When I chase him away from the windows, I can hear him hitting the side of the house, instead.

My wife took some of her knitting yarn and hung that in the windows. So far, it has slowed him down, but every so often, I still hear a 'thunk'. I went out and bought some big shiny stars that I'm going to tape to the windows. They are red stars, which will probably confirm the neighbor's suspicions that we are really communists over here.

We found out our neighbor has nets over his window because he's had this problem in the past. Last year, we had a female robin that insisted on making nests on our front porch. We'd move the nest, and the next day, there would be another one! This went on for several days. These birds are persistent!

We have many other kinds of birds around here, and they are mostly benign. There is a woodpecker I'm going to shoot someday because he likes the side of my house, too. But other than that, they are actually beneficial. The bluejays keep the undesirables out (though some consider the jays to be undesirables). But these robins must have the killer instinct! When you see one from now on, realize that he is quietly plotting your death!


Tape a big picture of a cat on the window.

[K4PIH]

I use the proven 177 cal topographically applied cone shaped projectile.

[W3WN]

Isn't "frozen tundra" by definition redundant?

[K7SGJ]

Isn't "frozen tundra" by definition redundant?

Not if it's a Toyota Tundra in Arizona, like mine.

[KG4CGC]

Yeah. Them Toyoter Tunders are good trucks.

[WØTKX]

Isn't "frozen tundra" by definition redundant?

Alpine tundra does not require permafrost to be considered tundra, so no.

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[N8YX]

There is a woodpecker I'm going to shoot someday because he likes the side of my house, too.

That woodpecker is your friend. He's trying to tell you something about wood-burrowing critters.

[K7SGJ]

That woodpecker is your friend. He's trying to tell you something about wood-burrowing critters.

Tell that to the dumb little shit banging away on the metal power pole in the street. All I can say is that has to be hard on the pecker. You'll never see a Bushtit do that.

[N8YX]

Tell that to the dumb little shit banging away on the metal power pole in the street. All I can say is that has to be hard on the pecker. You'll never see a Bushtit do that.

As with humans, not all birds can be "rocket scientists". Some of them don't even make it to missile technician.

[K0RGR]

Here's a video of the little creep in action -
https://youtu.be/FRx4oLLbpcc

You know it's a bad day when you wake up hearing your wife shout "You little f...er" and you are not little, and you know she isn't cheating on you.

The red stars did no good, indeed, I think they antagonized it.

I bet the neighbors were on the phone early this morning ..."hello 9-1-1? There's a crazy man in his bathrobe cursing at a bush and throwing things...".

Plastic bag over the window stopped it there, now the little turd bird has moved to a different window! Fortunately, I have some coax cables dangling off the roof there that interfere with him.

[N8YX]

Needs moar cats. Mine would catch the thing, bring it in the house and turn their new R/C airplane loose, I'm afraid.

[koØm]

Here's a video of the little creep in action -
https://youtu.be/FRx4oLLbpcc

You know it's a bad day when you wake up hearing your wife shout "You little f...er" and you are not little, and you know she isn't cheating on you.

The red stars did no good, indeed, I think they antagonized it.

I bet the neighbors were on the phone early this morning ..."hello 9-1-1? There's a crazy man in his bathrobe cursing at a bush and throwing things...".

Plastic bag over the window stopped it there, now the little turd bird has moved to a different window! Fortunately, I have some coax cables dangling off the roof there that interfere with him.

Cut the tree back, take away his launching pad/perch.

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[W5BRM]

SHOTGUN!! Turn him to feathers and ooze...

Seriously though, i agree about pruning the bush or tree branch.

[K7SGJ]

When it gets dark out, go around to your neighbors houses, and fill their window sills with wild bird seed.

[w0aew]

Open the window.

[K7SGJ]

Open the window.

FTW

[N8YX]

Open the window.

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[K0RGR]

We tried opening the window, and that helped, but it's cold around here in the morning. The bag over the window stopped his attacks there, but the ones on the back window have increased now. He figured out how to use my coax to launch his attacks. The wife has wanted a rose trellis to hide my coax for a long time, anyway, so I think we're going to put up two trellises this weekend in front of the window and the coax. That should at least eliminate some of his opportunities.

I spotted where he hides out when he's not dive bombing us. We're both ready to say bye bye, birdie. I can't use firearms here, but I do have a really good spud gun.

Last year, we had a female robin that kept making nests on top of our newspaper box. Every evening, we'd discover a new nest. Rather than destroy the nest, we just moved them a few feet to get them off the box. The next day - a whole new nest! This went of for several days. I finally put something on top of the box so the bird couldn't build a nest there and destroyed the other nests. I suspect this male bird is one of the offspring of that demented female last year.

[KG4CGC]

I found birdshit on my grill left front wheel! WTF?

[wa6mhz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtkhJ1xqw2o

[K0RGR]

OK, now I'm visualizing the &^%$%^ robin bobbing in the river...

Actually, today he left us alone. I've heard a couple brief hits, but nothing sustained. I figure he either killed himself, and is laying out in the yard somewhere with a broken neck, or he finally found a mate and is busy with other things.

[w0aew]

Maybe he finally took a good look in that window?

[WØTKX]

The hummingbirds are back! :dance:

Hungry little buggers...

[NA4BH]

Maybe he finally took a good look in that window?


I LOLed. All the bird saw was "NAKED". Damn, what a way to go.

[KG4CGC]

The frogs are making tadpoles.

[NA4BH]

The frogs are making tadpoles.

It's their God given right.

[K7SGJ]

I heard tadpoles were antennas that would compete with buddipoles.

I wonder how you would tuna tadpole?

[NQ6U]

I heard tadpoles were antennas that would compete with buddipoles.

No, a tadpole is someone for whom people from Poland make up only a small part of their ancestry.

[K7SGJ]

No, a tadpole is someone for whom people from Poland make up only a small part of their ancestry.


Hence the expression "I wouldn't touch that with a 10 inch tadpole"?

[NQ6U]

Hence the expression "I wouldn't touch that with a 10 inch tadpole"?

And the response “And I wouldn't touch it with a six foot Czech.”

[kb2vxa]

Then there is reverse order: I wouldn't touch that with a ten foot Pole or a Hungarian midget.

[K7SGJ]

Then there is reverse order: .I wouldn't touch that with a ten foot Pole or a Hungarian midget


I wouldn't touch that with a ten foot Pole or a Hungarian little person. Gotta be PC, don't ya know.

[kb2vxa]

To me PC is a personal computer and it's going to stay that way. NOW GET OFF MY LAWN!

[K7SGJ]

Ya non-midget bastid