Birds: Nature's ***holes (2 Viewers)

[mulletslinger]

Mockingbirds are the worst! The regularly 'dive' at me and the guide dogs when we take walks, etc. About a month ago, every night for about 2 weeks I would hear a bird in a tree outside my bedroom window chirping and singing relentlessly ALL night long. I was like TF is this?? What bird besides an owl stays up all night singing? So one night, at 4 am, after 2 weeks of not getting any sleep I Googled it. Apparently that's what male mockingbirds do until they find a mate. Chirp all night effing long.

Not to mention the birds that poo on my car. I hate them too.

we had some type of bird like that a few summers ago. i would get so ****** off i would get out of bed and grab handfuls of dog food to throw at the trees and bushes in corner of the yard where i thought it was. worked for about 20 secs. glad it was the middle of the night because im sure i looked like some crazed idiot out there.

 

[saintfan-n-alex]

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[CitySaint]

Isn't the ******* the 1st thing a buzzard goes for?

 

[Severum]

had a buddy long ago that was jogging through campus at night. he had long hair up in a pony. something came down and snatched a nice big chunk out of it.

a few years ago i was out at my telescope on a cold night. had my saints beanie on and a scarf slung around my neck. halfway through the night i bumped the leg of my scope so i had to redo my polar alignment. as im down on my knees looking through the polar scope i hear this whoooOOOSH and feel this blast of air on the back of my head and neck. i looked up just in time to see what looked like the outline of an owl flying over my house. scared the ever living piss out of me. once i calmed down i immediately redid that scarf to tuck the ends around in to the front of my jacket.

since then ive seen an owl roosting in our big oak and flying in and out of it at night. im pretty sure they see ponytails and the like as the tail of some type of prey. luckily i think this one realized at the last second i wasnt any type of food and pulled up.

There was an owl near here that was quite skilled at stealing hats from people walking or running along the wooded trail. It knew they weren't prey items since it frequently stole them so I assume it was after nesting materials. Somewhere there's a big colorful nest lined with a multitude of beanies and insulated hats.

 

[St. Chris]

Was your next google search "how to kill male mockingbird"?

Could have been, "How do I find a male mockingbird a mate?"

Gees, all these young people. First thing you think of is kill, kill, kill.

 

[keepoursaints]

And then there's every.single.one of these at every public park.

 

[superchuck500]

had a buddy long ago that was jogging through campus at night. he had long hair up in a pony. something came down and snatched a nice big chunk out of it.

a few years ago i was out at my telescope on a cold night. had my saints beanie on and a scarf slung around my neck. halfway through the night i bumped the leg of my scope so i had to redo my polar alignment. as im down on my knees looking through the polar scope i hear this whoooOOOSH and feel this blast of air on the back of my head and neck. i looked up just in time to see what looked like the outline of an owl flying over my house. scared the ever living piss out of me. once i calmed down i immediately redid that scarf to tuck the ends around in to the front of my jacket.

since then ive seen an owl roosting in our big oak and flying in and out of it at night. im pretty sure they see ponytails and the like as the tail of some type of prey. luckily i think this one realized at the last second i wasnt any type of food and pulled up.

Well, we didn't need another reason for dudes not to have pony tails, but that certainly is one.

 

[SaintsFanInLA]

Well, we didn't need another reason for dudes not to have pony tails, but that certainly is one.

Pony tailist!!

 

[Tacoes]

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[superchuck500]

Mockingbirds are the worst! The regularly 'dive' at me and the guide dogs when we take walks, etc.

Last spring, I want to say around May or so, the mockingbirds around my office were dive-bombing me for a couple of weeks. Then it stopped. Must be some part of their programming to get very aggressive that time of year. But it's very unsettling to say the least.

Today I was walking in an the mockingbirds were very suspicious. They were chirping in a certain way to each other and appearing to guard above the walkway. They didn't dive bomb me. But I know it is coming - this spring has brought on earlier plant and animal behavior, so it wouldn't surprise me if those ***-holes start it again.

I think I'm going to get a mask and wear it on the back of my head, facing a bit upwards. I don't think they will attack the front of a human. This strategy works in other applications (such as rice farmers in India avoiding tiger attack: Face Masks Fool the Bengal Tigers - NYTimes.com)

I'm gonna check out Amazon.

 

[efil4stnias]

Last spring, I want to say around May or so, the mockingbirds around my office were dive-bombing me for a couple of weeks. Then it stopped. Must be some part of their programming to get very aggressive that time of year. But it's very unsettling to say the least.

Today I was walking in an the mockingbirds were very suspicious. They were chirping in a certain way to each other and appearing to guard above the walkway. They didn't dive bomb me. But I know it is coming - this spring has brought on earlier plant and animal behavior, so it wouldn't surprise me if those ***-holes start it again.

I think I'm going to get a mask and wear it on the back of my head, facing a bit upwards. I don't think they will attack the front of a human. This strategy works in other applications (such as rice farmers in India avoiding tiger attack: Face Masks Fool the Bengal Tigers - NYTimes.com)

I'm gonna check out Amazon.

So last week kids were swooped on by mocking bird that nests in our landscape ( ligustrum tree ). Neighbor wife too ( which was kinda funny ).

Yesterday, im doin yard work, and i pulled out the ladder to get a glimpse of nest.

ITS EMPTY. This thing is guarding an EMPTY NEST.

territorial lil !@##@.

 

[RaginCajun83]

damn birds at my work think my car is a toilet, never fails that the day after I wash my car they poop all over it

 

[Tater]

Martins are bad here at work. They nest in the pipe gates surrounding the buildings. I did not know that birds can growl. Some days you have to wear your hard hat just to get out of the building

 

[saintmdterps]

Mockingbirds are the worst! The regularly 'dive' at me and the guide dogs when we take walks, etc. About a month ago, every night for about 2 weeks I would hear a bird in a tree outside my bedroom window chirping and singing relentlessly ALL night long. I was like TF is this?? What bird besides an owl stays up all night singing? So one night, at 4 am, after 2 weeks of not getting any sleep I Googled it. Apparently that's what male mockingbirds do until they find a mate. Chirp all night effing long.

Not to mention the birds that poo on my car. I hate them too.

A Mockingbird built it's nest in the gravel driveway of my old house. I took the dog outside to poop, so he's trying to do his thing and the damn bird keeps dive-bombing him and hitting him square in the ***. "Poor guy looks at me like I'm just trying to take a **** for Christ's sake"

I can live with birds except for Bluejays, but I really despise squirrels. Imma git me one of these and shoot the ****ers...

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[saintmdterps]

Up here we have the damn Canada Geese. There are more of the things now than there were in colonial times. In my mind the only use for them is shooting them, cleaning them, and giving them to the food bank. Nasty-*** critters.