Spring Is Here, Kill the Bird?

[Conveyor Belt]

Alright...

So, my wife and I bought this nice spring time wreath at WalMart because most of our neighbors have nice looking wreaths on their doors, and what the hey, y'know? Anyhow, as soon as we put it up, it starts getting vandalized by the birds who see it as free nesting material for the taking. We didn't really care, cause it gave us an opportunity to look at the birds close up through the glass in the door.

Now, while we were away for a week, a bird took the opportunity to build a nest on top of the wreath AND lay an egg in the nest... and here's the deal, the bird will NOT shut up.

I really want to see the whole process of baby bird, etc, so I'm willing to tolerate this incessant chirping, but it's a little grating. I'm really just too kind to the little bird... I mean, what's one less bird in the world? I'm going to help usher this one in, though...

[Fish-Bait]

Just tell the kids in the neighborhood they can shoot their bb guns in your yard....it wont take long.....

[58ford]

I'm thinking tiny omelet.

[Mr. Bama]

That's up to you. If it were me, I wouldn't kill it and this is coming from a deer hunter. I would just chalk this one up to a live and learn, next time I wouldn't put anything up that might attract birds or other animals to my front door.

We humans have sprawled out so far over the planet that there isn't much room for nature anymore. What's I find ironic is how we move out of the cities into the 'burbs to get closer to nature, but when nature gets too up close and personal for our liking, we destroy it.

I was raised by a father who liked to kill anything and everything that came remotely close to our property. In fact, last time I went home I was awoken at 2am by the sound of a shotgun right next to my bedroom window, my father's insomnia allows him to get some armadillo hunting in.

[Conveyor Belt]

yeah, I'm going to let the bird hatch the egg and just forgo using my front door for a while...

I know lots of people who don't use their front doors, and this is one of those things in life that aggravates me... when my wife and I went house hunting, one of the things we looked for was a front door that was accessible and inviting and functional to the landscaping of the home... anyhow, I'm kinda weird, so...

So, just to clarify, I already decided to let the bird live, just venting because it was chirping... I went out and finished my yard work and either scared it off in doing so or something...

I really gotta google about birds and nesting so I can know if this egg's gonna hatch or not...

[amanda]

That's cute CB! Just rest assured that the little critter won't take too long to hatch. Birds have short gestation times. :)

[bpitt]

Look at it this way, your allowing another mosquito eating machine to be born. Plus, the bird can act like a West Nile Virus barometer right at your door. Open door, if bird is dead, you got the west nile thing going on, get it?

[Hermione]

Birds built a nest in the grapevine wreath on my carport last year. It was really cool, but I never got to see the babies. Glad you decided to let them alone.

[daisy]

CB, is it a house wren? They like to do that.

I think it is getting close to the time where if you put out yarn, birds will take it to build their nests.

Mother had a cardinal (red bird Nests) build a nest in one of the outer limbs of a live oak tree using a WAL- MART bag. It was woven in.:clap:

How does your wreath look now?

[big john]

I had a nest on the front pourch last year,I was scared to get to close,thinking I would run the mother off,but she would run me and my cats off when we got to close,they were all just fine.

[Maggie-Doodle]

yeah, I'm going to let the bird hatch the egg and just forgo using my front door for a while...

I know lots of people who don't use their front doors, and this is one of those things in life that aggravates me... when my wife and I went house hunting, one of the things we looked for was a front door that was accessible and inviting and functional to the landscaping of the home... anyhow, I'm kinda weird, so...

So, just to clarify, I already decided to let the bird live, just venting because it was chirping... I went out and finished my yard work and either scared it off in doing so or something...

I really gotta google about birds and nesting so I can know if this egg's gonna hatch or not...


CB, the birds eggs WILL hatch! I always have a wreath on my front door and they often make nest in them...after the baby gets big enuf to fly off they all go and I still have the nest in my wreath...sometimes I buy the small artificial birds at Michaels and then hot glue them in the next after the real bird flys the coop...it is cute. I also get the birds nesting in my ferns when I hang them out. One year I had a wreath up and the nest was right beneath the peep hole on my door. I got to watch the birds daily...it was especially interesting to watch the mother bird feed the little ones...