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06-10-2013, 12:44 PM
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BigFish Bait Co.
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Location: Hanover
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Stupid Bird???
Anyone tell me why this bird is constantly pecking at the pane of glass on my basement window??? Noticed it a few hours ago and it won't stop even after I chase it away???
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Almost time to get our fish on!!! 
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06-10-2013, 01:30 PM
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sick of bluefish
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: TEXAS
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I think it sees its reflection
We used to have a female cardinal that did this all the time
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making s-b.com a kinder, gentler place for all 
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06-10-2013, 01:36 PM
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BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
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Been there for hours...still there now as I type I can hear him pecking away under my window???
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Almost time to get our fish on!!!
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06-10-2013, 01:53 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2003
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Insects in the window sill . . .
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06-10-2013, 03:28 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
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stick a board there
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06-10-2013, 03:53 PM
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Retired Surfer
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Sunset Grill
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Raven, love the new avatar
Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device
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06-10-2013, 03:55 PM
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Retired Surfer
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Sunset Grill
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The bird obviously fishes wood and wants in
Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device
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06-10-2013, 04:02 PM
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BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
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Raven I was thinking the same thing earlier....so I just did it? Seems to be working...I think? I still wonder why?? Been out there at least 6 hours?? Banging its beak on the window all that time can't be good??
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Almost time to get our fish on!!!
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06-10-2013, 04:36 PM
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Super Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Middleboro MA
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is there something wrong with your cat?
let the cat handle it
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The United States Constitution does not exist to grant you rights; those rights are inherent within you. Rather it exists to frame a limited government so that those natural rights can be exercised freely.
1984 was a warning, not a guidebook!
It's time more people spoke up with the truth. Every time we let a leftist lie go uncorrected, the commies get stronger.
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06-10-2013, 05:37 PM
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BigFish Bait Co.
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Location: Hanover
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Indoor cats......cats upstairs, window in basement and the cats can't get up to it!  |
Almost time to get our fish on!!!
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06-10-2013, 05:46 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: RockVegas
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Quote:
Originally Posted by BigFish
Indoor cats......cats upstairs, window in basement and the cats can't get up to it! |
Jet's too fat to catch birds anyways.  |
The future ain't what it used to be. --Yogi Berra
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06-10-2013, 05:56 PM
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Super Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Middleboro MA
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oh
ok
bb gun 
do you have carpenter ants in your sill they are trying to get?
birds seem attracted to your house |
The United States Constitution does not exist to grant you rights; those rights are inherent within you. Rather it exists to frame a limited government so that those natural rights can be exercised freely.
1984 was a warning, not a guidebook!
It's time more people spoke up with the truth. Every time we let a leftist lie go uncorrected, the commies get stronger.
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06-10-2013, 06:17 PM
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BigFish Bait Co.
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Nope....just pecking the pane of glass???
Your mean Bob! |
Almost time to get our fish on!!!
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06-10-2013, 07:01 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by BigFish
Raven I was thinking the same thing earlier....so I just did it? Seems to be working...I think? I still wonder why?? Been out there at least 6 hours?? Banging its beak on the window all that time can't be good??
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woodpeckers have a little tuft of feathers just behind the beak
that looks like a brush or hair... it's for taking up the shock....of hammering
a shock absorber of the feathered kind....
my big Maine Coon Cat is Ah-scared of Birds... altogether..  |
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06-10-2013, 07:27 PM
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BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
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Its a sparrow I think??? Common yard bird!
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06-10-2013, 08:07 PM
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this old Lady one day was watching me save a young sparrow
that fell out of a nest.....
she said " it's only a sparrow" 
indicating that she thought it was of little value
i paused thinking of my lessons learned
and went into a deep form of meditation for a few moments
time slowed down to about 1 tenth speed....
i replied quite slowly.... in a Shaman's tone
looking deeply into her in eyes .....
"All life is precious and None can be replaced "
and then walked away |
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06-10-2013, 08:57 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2008
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Birds do that chit usually after eating cannabis plants in a nearby garden. It's natural. The bird is not stupid. It's just has the munchies and probably sees some snacks through the window.
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06-10-2013, 10:47 PM
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Callinectes sapidus
Join Date: Oct 2001
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Larry, the bird was doing a "knock, knock" joke....you just never said .."knock, knock...who?"...
You're not a very good sport. |
 ... it finally happened, there are no more secret spots
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06-11-2013, 12:52 PM
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Registered User
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Quote:
Originally Posted by bloocrab
Larry, the bird was doing a "knock, knock" joke....you just never said .."knock, knock...who?"...
You're not a very good sport. |
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06-11-2013, 03:57 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Hyde Park, MA
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It's doing its impersonation of a plover: a really annoying bird you can't do anything about.
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I am a legend in my own mind! 
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06-11-2013, 07:50 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
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when i was a kid i'd play these cool bird recordings out the window
to attract exotics (hopefully) or i should say  very colorful songbirds.
My Neighbor was Mr Wilson and i was Denise the menace always fooling him
into thinking a non new england bird was in the area..... he'd be out there
with his binoculars looking everywhere but never actually seeing the bird that
was doing the singing. This went on for months. it was allot of fun. |
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06-11-2013, 08:08 PM
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Registered Grandpa
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: east coast
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Raven
this old Lady one day was watching me save a young sparrow
that fell out of a nest.....
she said " it's only a sparrow"
indicating that she thought it was of little value
i paused thinking of my lessons learned
and went into a deep form of meditation for a few moments
time slowed down to about 1 tenth speed....
i replied quite slowly.... in a Shaman's tone
looking deeply into her in eyes .....
"All life is precious and None can be replaced "
and then walked away |
Rav, if you haven't already you would enjoy reading the book Reverence for Life
By Albert Schwietzer. |
" Choose Life "
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06-12-2013, 04:45 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
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maybe i should re-read that book as i march
up and down the drive way stepping on carpenter ants
with Gusto.  ( unfortunately it got consumed) |
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06-12-2013, 04:57 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
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Birds are facinating i've always thought
as they are truly miniature dinosauers in reality....
their eye sight is impecable
combined with unimaginable hearing
they go thru life ever on the alert for predators from above
and below... having insane reactionary reflexes
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i had a hummingbird stuck in the green house yesterday
it was flying back and forth then going up to the curved ceiling
at each end thinking i'm trapped , im trapped.... even though the open
door was right there BIG as day... she still couldn't find it...
so i grabbed a HB feeder and hung it in the middle to feed it
so it wouldn't exhaust itself in a panic....
then i stood there very still , saying in body language : i'm no threat....
as it landed on a bit of wire attached to a fan to rest....
i then re-hung the feeder a bit lower than the door opening
and allowed it to find it's freedom.....
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06-23-2013, 11:53 AM
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Land OF Forgotten Toys
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Central MA
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Just had a black bird pecking my chrome wheels right after I cleaned em. Yep
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06-23-2013, 04:03 PM
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Always a Rookie
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: South Shore Long Island, NY
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Had a Woodpecker and a Robin do that a bunch of times and would damage the rear view mirrors. They are like Siamese fighting fish with a mirror, they think it's a rival and they just keep trying to kill it.
I think the birds are Highlanders but that's just me....
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"Your first word was "Fishing", not "Mom", not "Dad", "FISHING." - Mom
Black, White, Chartreuse/Parrot = the Holy Trinity
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06-24-2013, 07:11 AM
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tape a roofing nail to a rat trap bar
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