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Posted on 12/01/2006 12:55:15 PM PST by ecurbh
What sort of hawks have you got? Wondering if they are there all the time, or migrate south for winter.
Well, mostly red-tailed, red-shouldered and broad-winged; sometimes Cooper's. Their all native and year round.
Heh. I'd do pretty well in the dressed fat bunny business too.
Heh, yup. That air rifle would pay for itself in short order with your savings at the Price Chopper meat counter.
Now that I've got a garden, I'm starting to really want fewer squirrels. I don't mind if they get some of my stuff, but I could appreciate tham leaving a little for me. A BB gun is probably in order. Also locking my hound dog in the back yard with the garden all day might help. She loves lying around the house so much that I hate to do that, but it may be time for her to do some work. She does enjoy chasing the squirrels.
Well, come to think of it, regarding the squirrel problem, I do have a bow - Osagebowman showed me how to make it - that shoots subsonic rounds, and damned accurately. And fairly silently.
Some of those "nutter" arrows that I've read about may be just the ticket, what do you think, Osage?
The 3oz. square, or the 8oz. brick?
Absolutely, 'nutters' work fine, they deliver a good hit, easy to make and you can experiment to find the right combination for your particular situation.
Empty .38 brass, with two or three bb sized shot for weight works well too.
A judo type head helps prevent losing arrows in tall/thick vegetation.
Some have used a small broadhead bleeder blade and a blunt for real 'series' small game head.
Even when they're not eating everything, they're digging things up. They keep digging up the lily bulbs that OB and LSA gave me, they did up my spring onions, and dig up everything I put in pots. So far they haven't bothered caladiums, daffodils, or crocus.
Sorry Sam... Can't help because I've never even seen the problem. Our squirrels never touch a thing I've grown. Not flowers, not tomatoes, not lettuce, not corn. Seriously! We've taken fruit and vegetables out there and set it on the feeder and they won't eat it. Only their sunflower seeds and peanuts. Maybe it's because they get all they want and prefer that.
You're not dead yet, man.
One of these days I oughta put up my Christmas present and see if I can get birds over this way. ;-)
Keep forgetting, and now that it's been cold for so many days in a row, I'm guessing the ground is rock hard. Might try this afternoon anyhow. But in either case, I do need to make a feed store run today for dog and cat food, so I might as well pick up some birdseed. Any tips as to what kinda seed mix works well for the local birds?
Oh yeah...there's some big ball game today or sumpin', isn't there?
The squirrels don't hit my bananas or key limes for some reason, but they are hell on the avocodos, guavas and tomatoes.
Well, the squirrels are about to meet the nutters!
I'm going to limit myself to 6 tomato plants this year: 6 cherry, 6 plum, and 6 slicing. I'm planning on growing half of them in thesunroom and making cages of chicken wire for the others. Same with the sweet pepers and the eggplant except I won't do the eggplant indoors.
I'll have to fence off the okra, greens, beans, and lettuce off from the rabbits. I had good luck with the squash last year once that extra hot spell passed.
I'm planning on putting in raspberry bushes this year.
We've tried lots of mixes and now just get the straight sunflower seeds. All the big and little birds seem to like them best, and of course, the squirrels do. But maybe you will want to do something different, to attract the ones I don't get... I dunno. They've got a lot of options at the feed store, but I sortof have a bias against those that have a lot of millet (the little round seeds in the cheaper blends). I think they leave a lot of that on the ground.
We'll help if you want to set that thing up today, I think you'll want us with the ladder to pound it in somehow.
And we've got the two feeders you can have. I would pick up some suet and a suet cage, they love that.
And some thistle seed you can have. They didn't seem to go for it here, but they sure love it at dad's house. Maybe it's just the kind of birds I get under the trees that don't like it.
We'll see how things go this afternoon...if it isn't raining, maybe it'd be a good time to get it in the ground.
And I'll look for suet at the feed store in addition to the bird food - thanks! It's a good winter thing to feed...and then in summer I can switch to hanging a hummingbird feeder, maybe.
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