Resettlement Program
Mar. 27th, 2005 08:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenite0This weekend’s big event was solving the Bird Problem. ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
celticdragonfly picked up the supplies we needed. We started by clearing away any birds who might’ve been in the house while we were working. My approach was simple. Pull out the ceiling fan. Grab a cat. Hold cat up to opening. Hope that cat’s meowing to be let down scared away any birds hiding in there. Repeat with next cat. No, I didn’t repeat this with Rorik, for reasons obvious to anyone who’s met him. There’s a limit to how much unhappy feline I’m willing to hold over my head.
Thencelticdragonfly spotted me on the ladder as I unscrewed the covers for each duct, slid in some screening, and screwed them down again. We’d officially evicted the birds.
Of course, this meant we had a family of homeless birds on our conscience, right during nest-building season. Socelticdragonfly had picked up a birdhouse as a resettlement zone for the critters we’d booted out. A little more ladder work and it was nailed to the eaves, safe from predators and weather. The bird feeder went up in the back yard and we were done.
Cute vermin are way too much work.
celticdragonfly picked up the supplies we needed. We started by clearing away any birds who might’ve been in the house while we were working. My approach was simple. Pull out the ceiling fan. Grab a cat. Hold cat up to opening. Hope that cat’s meowing to be let down scared away any birds hiding in there. Repeat with next cat. No, I didn’t repeat this with Rorik, for reasons obvious to anyone who’s met him. There’s a limit to how much unhappy feline I’m willing to hold over my head.Then
celticdragonfly spotted me on the ladder as I unscrewed the covers for each duct, slid in some screening, and screwed them down again. We’d officially evicted the birds.Of course, this meant we had a family of homeless birds on our conscience, right during nest-building season. So
celticdragonfly had picked up a birdhouse as a resettlement zone for the critters we’d booted out. A little more ladder work and it was nailed to the eaves, safe from predators and weather. The bird feeder went up in the back yard and we were done.Cute vermin are way too much work.
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Date: 2005-03-28 02:41 am (UTC)Wouldn't it have been worse if they were rats?
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Date: 2005-03-28 02:52 am (UTC)Hey, it's not just us
Date: 2005-03-28 03:42 am (UTC)Couple gets feathered houseguests
By Bill Teeter
Star-Telegram Staff Writer
FORT WORTH -- Although a mother bird's choice of a convenient nesting site is proving inconvenient for Jackie and Ernie Stanglin, the couple is thrilled to see a little bit of nature's wonder as close as their front door.
"We're just happy they chose our pretty floral wreath to grow their family," said Jackie Stanglin. The gray bird that nested in the decoration on their front door has laid five blue eggs.
The Stanglins live in far south Fort Worth, not far from Meadowcreek Elementary School. Jackie Stanglin, 72, spotted the nest at the bottom of the inside of the wreath a week ago. She saw the eggs and decided to leave the door shut until the bird family was done with it.
Ernie Stanglin, 80, and Jackie, who think the bird is a robin, have been coming and going by the garage.
The nest is a good sign as the city grows across bird habitats, Jackie Stanglin said.
"It's just a wonderful thing to know mother nature still prevails," she said.