[Kay Syrah]

Well as long as you have gone to the birds, here's one for you. LOL

Seems my cats are menaced by the hamerkops, which look and sound like minature like teradactyls. Their scrawks start predawn, which has never been a problem for the felines, but I am throwing pillows and anything I can get a hand on to get some peace. Their nest is just a few yards from my garden, gack! what a mess.!

I guess I should offer a poem?

Overhead, the underhanded,
get what they want,
charge everything
to capital and reserve
the game
for the upperclassèd

I loved your Memorial day presentation of In Flanders Field. Thanks.

[Soaring Feather]

Hello! So nice to see you, and thank you.
I love the poem Flander's Field.

Nice little poem you left. ;)

What is this bird
that hammers at your
rest, and near your window too,
yuk is sure right to blast
a pillow or two out the window
toward them, but the toss of the pillow
could not be retrieved after having
landed in the nest of the hamerkops loft,
hamerkops feathers and down be dammed
I'll never look at a hen the same way again.


Whew that is a big bird.

[WayzataJOHNN]

"Their nest is just a few yards from my garden, gack! what a mess.!"

A Birder friend of mine told me that he got rid of a pair by using a 'super-soaker' squirtgun and hosing them down over the course of two days. They left and did not return. He also suggested a fine stream nozzle on your garden hose works too. The thing is to catch the birds in the nest and than hose them down until they leave. Doesn't hurt anything envo in the garden area, and the hosing breaks up nest droppings and reduces the mess quickly.