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| Author: | fakesnake [ Thu Jul 16, 2009 12:39 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Bird brain. |
Hi, my mother puts scraps out for the birds, but looks like she will have to stop it. This one gull chases all the other birds away to get it all for itself, soon as my mother goes outside, down he comes and trots along beside her asking for food. He has now got so brazen he came into the conservatory and started to tap on the patio doors glass with his beak, and even came in to the sitting room. Shooing him out he spots the cats food in the corner of conservatory and eats that, before he left. 
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| Author: | HeatherKay [ Thu Jul 16, 2009 12:42 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bird brain. |
Opportunistic vermin. Your Mum needs to start shouting and waving her arms, and throwing things at it. Otherwise it'll bring all its chums for dinner, you mark my words. |
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| Author: | mars-bar-man [ Thu Jul 16, 2009 12:43 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bird brain. |
BB Gun? That should stop it... |
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| Author: | saspro [ Thu Jul 16, 2009 12:46 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bird brain. |
Calcium Carbonate would solve that. But throw it outside & away from your garden. |
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| Author: | jonlumb [ Thu Jul 16, 2009 12:59 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bird brain. |
Get a lump of meat and pack it with Colman's English Mustard. He won't return 
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| Author: | John_Vella [ Thu Jul 16, 2009 1:22 pm ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Bird brain. | |||||||||
Agreed, but it needs to be exterminated or, just like The Terminator, it'll be back. With it's friends.
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| Author: | bubbles [ Thu Jul 16, 2009 2:07 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bird brain. |
all birds do that the dominant chicken (of 3) will come inside and eat the cat food when we leave the door open.. |
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| Author: | Sharks [ Thu Jul 16, 2009 2:49 pm ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Bird brain. | |||||||||
How will calcium carbonate help? It's pretty innocuous. Calcium carbide on the other hand.... Sharks |
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| Author: | mars-bar-man [ Thu Jul 16, 2009 2:53 pm ] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Bird brain. | ||||||||||||||||||
When Calcium Carbonate meets acids, it fizzes and releases a lot of gas, birds cannot break wind or burp, so this gas just builds up in the stomach, and eventually the stomach will rupture causing the bird to die....or explode (yet to see this). I think :S Edit... Actually, this is what you really want. |
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| Author: | fakesnake [ Thu Jul 16, 2009 3:52 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bird brain. |
I would shoot it but worried all its mates will come to the funeral. The cat was none to happy when he came home and saw it, he has been chasing it when ever it lands hopefully it will get the hint. |
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| Author: | ProfessorF [ Thu Jul 16, 2009 3:55 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bird brain. |
I'd just like to point out that it is illegal to kill seagulls, as they're a protected species under the country side act. Stop feeding the birds. Or buy a leopard. There's your answer. Edit - gulls live to about 40. If they like a nest site, they'll return to nest as often as possible. I'd take steps to ensure they're not doing so on your property. |
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| Author: | HeatherKay [ Thu Jul 16, 2009 4:59 pm ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Bird brain. | |||||||||
That's a pity, because we live a good few miles from the nearest open water and we have flocks of the buggers. When they gang up with the magpies, there's no peace anywhere and most of the other nesting garden birds suffer rape and pillage. 
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| Author: | cloaked_wolf [ Thu Jul 16, 2009 5:55 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bird brain. |
One of my friends did a stint as a lifeguard and she admitted to using chips filled with bicarb to perform her cruelty to birds. |
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| Author: | Nick [ Thu Jul 16, 2009 8:45 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bird brain. |
Stop giving him food. He will leave. |
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| Author: | Linux_User [ Thu Jul 16, 2009 9:07 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bird brain. |
Sodium bicarbonate works too. Beware the RSPCA will have you if they find out though. |
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