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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2013 15:00:10 GMT -5
So, to this day I've used yells, loud clapping of hands, waving long leafy branches, recorded hawk screeches, sling shots to chase away the mynah birds, and THEY'RE STILL TRYING TO MAKE A NEST IN THE COCONUT TREE!!! from whence they attack me and my cat in my own back and front yards!!!! If it were my tree, I WOULD CHOP IT DOWN!! And if it were legal, I'd shoot them all dead.
I have spent time and money on these disgusting bastards! I go out multiple times a day to chase them away. It gives me a headache. But one good thing...now when they see me they fly away, but sometimes not far enough and I have to yell. Anyhow, they're afraid of me. Good! And today I'm expecting delivery of a powerful whistle. Another weapon in my arsenal. This is WAR!!!
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Post by raybar on Jun 28, 2013 16:29:35 GMT -5
We had crows in a large sycamore tree in front of our old house one year. They had chosen this tree as their roost. Lucky us. They weren't really causing any trouble - no attacking pets, not a lot of droppings. But there were so many of them and they were soooo noisy - seemed to have a lot to say to each other, although it sounded like their language consisted of only one word. Like you with your mynahs, we tried to chase them away, but they always returned.
Research indicated that once crows have chosen their roost, they can not be dissuaded. They appear to lack the ability to change their minds on this.
If mynahs are like crows in this, you may have to wait them out. The crows stayed for a summer, or a season, or something, and then moved on.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2013 19:30:50 GMT -5
I kind of wish now we had crows instead of mynahs. But actually, I never had anything against mynahs until around three weeks ago when two of them set up house in the tree right near our property line and decided they owned the entire square mile, and was going to attack anyone near their nest. I did see a mynah chase our neighbor's cat a few years ago. But that was all. It was live and let live, but not any more. They gave my cat a nervous breakdown (literally) and felt they could swoop around me and screech when I stepped into the front or backyard. Well, this time they're the ones who are going to be the recipients of a nervous breakdown if I can help it. They're the ones who decided to be vicious. There are mynahs who don't behave that way. They have cooked their own gooses.
I think there is hope, though. The tree they have their nest in has a bunch of coconuts almost ready for the picking, and their nest is right on top of one. I just saw that today because the wind blew one of the fronds out of the way so that I could see that. Anyway, the neighbor hires some guys to come bring them down. Hopefully they'll do it before two weeks in case they already have eggs there. They take 14 days to hatch.
They are screechers and are especially noisy in large trees where they tend to congregate. A few houses down there are large mango trees in the backyards and at certain times of the day you can see the mynahs fluttering around them like bees around a beehive. I can see how they've have really multiplied, and the reason why is becoming obvious. Those two chicks just flew off on their own around two weeks ago, and those two parents are already preparinig to lay more eggs.
Unlike your crows they are not seasonal They're here year around, as will those two be. Lucky us.
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Post by pat on Jun 28, 2013 20:53:00 GMT -5
Too high to use a water hose and spray them? Never had quite the problem you're dealing with, Lily.....just one nasty red headed woodpecker. One morning, the noise just didn't happen. Mike and I were working nights during summer vacation from grad school and each morning that little bastard would just be doing his woodpecker thing on the tree outside our bedroom window. We needed to sleep and couldn't for a few weeks. The day of no noise led us to take a look at the tree....the cat got that dam bird. Mike's cat and I never got along, but after she dispatched that bird, well, I just adored her....  . Love birds, but this one was the woodpecker from hell. Hope something works out for you with those dam birds, Lily. I'm sure you are beyond frustrated! |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2013 23:31:13 GMT -5
That's the thing, Pat. I do love birds, too. But it's really too much. Coconut trees that have coconuts are really tall. That's why they need something like a cherry picker to get them down. Some folks think they can climb up. One man died that way when the tree fell down and right on him. In short, a water hose wouldn't reach that far up.
Lol about that cat and the bird. That's actually how I came to acquire my cat. It was a stray in several back yards--mine and adjacent ones, and I saw lots of feathers in my side yard. The cat always ran away when I came into eye contact with him or when I watered the back yard and he'd be under some boards in the adjacent yard and would run away. One day I was talking to him and he sat down along the fence and looked at me, but then ran off when I tried to get nearer him.
So one day I decided if I left out food for him he might not have to kill so many birds to survive. I did that a couple of nights. And then one morning I saw him in the next yard hunting for birds. I ran into the house and brought out a bowl of tuna and I called him. He came to the fence and looked at me pacing back and forth like deciding what to do. Finally he started meowing like crazy and ran to the opening in the fence at the end and ran into my yard and to me and the food. And I started petting him and he just loved it so much like he was starving for love. After that for a couple of times when I walked away he would grab on to my leg as if not wanting me to leave him. I went around looking for anyone who might know anything about this cat. There was a lady who was known as a cat lady who fed feral cats and had them fixed, and she said there was a lady who moved and asked her if she would feed her cat, and she said no. Anyway, he's been mine ever since.
He's always been a very non-aggressive cat and has even watched a mongoose several times eating his food and also other cats eating his food. He often just goes into his house until they leave. He's very senstive and so that's why he took these maniac birds really badly. He only comes around in the morning and evening now after dark now, and even then he's nervous.
I really don't hate mynahs; not until now that is. They just need to go away!!! That's what I yell to them.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 29, 2013 19:51:22 GMT -5
Okay, now I feel bad. They see me and fly away from the tree or from somewhere nearby with twigs in their beaks. And usually they drop them. What can I do. it's a hopeless situation and now I am rather depressed.
Oh, and I received the high-powered whistle. Except now I'm going to have to buy ear plugs. The ringing in my ears thank goodness didn't last too long. I'm a defeated woman. |
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. Love birds, but this one was the woodpecker from hell.