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| 4/30/08
Posted on 04/30/2008 11:26:08 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: CDHart
'I have tried shooting them with a BB gun Use a scoped .22 w/hollowpoints.
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posted on
04/30/2008 12:44:26 PM PDT
by
xone
To: redhead
I wasn’t aware African Grays were predatory. I thought they ate strictly seeds and fruit.
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posted on
04/30/2008 12:54:49 PM PDT
by
stanz
(Those who don't believe in evolution should go jump off the flat edge of the Earth.)
To: CDHart
If you are trying to protect a specific type of bird from them, you can try building nesting boxes that keep cowbirds out of their nests.
putting up bluebird nest boxes, with an 1.5 inch entrance hole, will prevent cowbirds from entering to deposit their egg.(they usually have only one) Also removing dead trees and branches where cowbirds like to sit and spy on other nesting birds. If they can't see them, they won't know when to add there eggs to the nest. Cow bird hatches depend on proper timing. the egg hatch a few days earlier than most other birds eggs, so they watch other nesting birds carefully so they know when to add their egg.
To: LibWhacker
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posted on
04/30/2008 12:56:09 PM PDT
by
stanz
(Those who don't believe in evolution should go jump off the flat edge of the Earth.)
To: CDHart
But I'd probably blow holes in the deck where the feeders are. Actually...now that I think about it, that is the right answer. It just the scale that is wrong.
You can buy rounds for a .22 that are loaded with very small pellets. 1 mm in size. Not sure of the choke you get on them....I imagine it would be very tight. But it would certainly increase you chances of a kill while reducing the damage to the environs....and the normal range of a .22 round.
I used some many years ago and they were rather effective when you had a fairly close target and didn't want a stray .22 round heading for G-d knows where. Very dangerous, that.
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posted on
04/30/2008 12:56:45 PM PDT
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(The secret of Life is letting go. The secret of Love is letting it show.)
To: CDHart
Anchor Birdies! Build the wall now! ;)
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posted on
04/30/2008 1:04:50 PM PDT
by
JZelle
To: LibWhacker
This article reminds me of a joke about a parrot and a burglar.
A idiotic burglar while invading a home looked at a parrot in a cage named Moses. The parrot then exclaimed, "Jesus is coming! Jesus is coming!" A moment later a 100 pound Rottweiler named Jesus came running out and jumped on the stupid burglar.
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posted on
04/30/2008 1:27:54 PM PDT
by
LuxMaker
(The Constitution is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, Thomas J 1819)
To: LuxMaker
Why was the cage named Moses?
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posted on
04/30/2008 2:22:58 PM PDT
by
RipSawyer
(Does anyone still believe this is a free country?)
To: stanz
"I wasnt aware African Grays were predatory. I thought they ate strictly seeds and fruit."I didn't say he was a predator. I said he is a "prey creature." In the wild, he would be preyed upon by just about anything.
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posted on
04/30/2008 3:06:40 PM PDT
by
redhead
(I think I'm built upside down. My nose runs and my feet smell....)
To: LibWhacker
Starlings ....rats with wings.
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posted on
04/30/2008 6:13:09 PM PDT
by
TASMANIANRED
(TAZ:Untamed, Unpredictable, Uninhibited.)
To: Nathan Zachary; Bloody Sam Roberts
Many thanks to both of you for your suggestions. FReepers know everything - you just have to find the right ones! Thanks again!
Carolyn
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posted on
05/01/2008 4:40:13 AM PDT
by
CDHart
("It's too late to work within the system and too early to shoot the b@#$%^&s."--Claire Wolfe)
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