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05-24-2020, 07:05 PM | #16 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Nov 2019 Location: Suffield, CT
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| Bad that the nieghbors are feeding them, very selfish!! But it is wrong to peppar spray them!! Or ammonia (which is poison) into theyre eyes is torture and illegal. Its the birds home area too and it sounds like youre walking there. Why not just keep distance. |
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05-24-2020, 07:23 PM | #17 |
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| And in most states where they are a protected species, feeding them is illegal. And can be very dangerous to the bird and to the human with the food.
__________________ Jeanie and Tibbe One must do the best one can. You may get some marks for a very imperfect answer: you will certainly get none for leaving the question alone. C. S. Lewis |
05-24-2020, 07:29 PM | #18 |
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05-25-2020, 09:45 AM | #19 |
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| At the end of the day if it’s my dog or myself vs the bird protected or not I will protect myself and my dog. At the end of the day it would then come back to the fault of the neighbor.
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05-25-2020, 10:02 AM | #20 | |
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But the bird lives there and so why not avoid it, its not coming into the house to attack, its in its own home. DEFINITELY do not blind it with amonia that is creul and illegal (not that you said it, someone else did). | |
05-25-2020, 12:35 PM | #21 | |
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__________________ Taylor My babies Joey, Penny ,Ollie & Dixie Callie Mae, you will forever be in my heart! | |
05-25-2020, 01:55 PM | #22 |
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| Im going off what the original poster wrote: "Our neighborhood has two pairs of sandhill cranes which have chicks each year" so I think they are in the neighborhood but your definately right that food doesn't help at all!! |
05-25-2020, 02:15 PM | #23 |
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| Unfortunately, both pair live in our small gated community. They roam through our yards digging for grubs, and have been known to break through pool screens to get at lizards. They peck on windows, and have scratched parked cars with their beaks. Unfortunately, more than one neighbor puts out seed on their driveway area to avoid having them do damage to their property. We always walk on the opposite side of the street when they are in the area, and avoid interacting with them...but the recent incident occurred when one of the adults came flying in and landed right by Tyrone. We have walked by twice since then (of course on the opposite side) and ignored them, and they have not reacted. I am hoping that since we did not respond when the bird acted aggressively, he may not regard us as a threat. Since they live more than 20 years, and return to the same place to nest each year, I would be thrilled if we can just coexist peacefully!
__________________ Joy...Mommy to Tyrone and Gus r.i.p. beloved Ozzie and Tucker, and Beauregarde the poodle |
05-25-2020, 07:14 PM | #24 | |
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I just care about the birds too. I am reserching if there are ways to keep birds away without any harm to anyone. One thing i learned is that they dont taste spicy stuff so thats out. Last edited by Yorktowny; 05-25-2020 at 07:17 PM. | |
05-26-2020, 12:27 PM | #25 |
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| Just take your umbrella and swish it open as you walk by the bird and see what the reaction will be. I'd have somebody filming me just with their phone camera as I did it to document I did the bird no harm, was just trying out a possible preventative measure in case the huge creature surprised me next time with a sudden aggressive move across the street against my tiny pet dog whom I felt was put in harm's way by the bird's aggression, whatever its reasons or urges. A Sandhill crane can kill just as quickly as it can fly over and pierce a little skull with that huge beak anytime it would care to. You have to try to protect your little dogs and it wouldn't hurt the bird to form a bit of fear of humans that some protected species often don't seem to know to fear as they are rarely legally stalked or hunted.
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05-26-2020, 12:53 PM | #26 |
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| https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/...rous-gamebird/ Finally got the website address to copy. Would just white out the other day when I kept trying it. Anyway, skip down 2/3 way down to the attack section. This is a scary creature. Did anybody else see the Sandhill crane shown on a sportscast where a golf reporter commented on the large size of the "3 cranes" that stayed in the background during "The Match", the golf show Sunday where Tiger, Phil, Peyton and Tom played golf for Covid 19 charity? Never saw them during the show but I didn't watch it continuously and even napped during it but those ARE big birds shown by that reporter's camera! The reporter said they stand as tall as humans! And those beaks are like spears!
__________________ Jeanie and Tibbe One must do the best one can. You may get some marks for a very imperfect answer: you will certainly get none for leaving the question alone. C. S. Lewis |
05-27-2020, 01:56 PM | #27 | |
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The author of the artical said he's angry that a mallard duck bit him WHILE TRYING NOT TO BE KILLED and what a piece of work. Last edited by Yorktowny; 05-27-2020 at 02:00 PM. | |
05-28-2020, 11:14 AM | #28 | |
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__________________ Jeanie and Tibbe One must do the best one can. You may get some marks for a very imperfect answer: you will certainly get none for leaving the question alone. C. S. Lewis Last edited by yorkietalkjilly; 05-28-2020 at 11:17 AM. | |
05-28-2020, 12:19 PM | #29 | |
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Totally agree with you about hunting--- especielly if the birds live in a suburban neighborhood (and are protected_)/. | |
05-28-2020, 12:35 PM | #30 |
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| I, too, abhor hunting of animals for sport! I cannot imagine resorting to have to kill a crane...I was just concerned with protecting my babies. I am happy to report that the birds have not bothered us again, and seem to be respecting our distance. I will remain vigilant, but hope we have averted another problem by quietly and calmly standing our ground and not reacting aggressively during their earlier challenge. I will share that many years ago, when my 45-year-old son was in second grade he was in a school performance in NYC at Madison Square Garden. He was in a program with Jaques D'Amboise and Mary Tyler Moore, and his class had been training for an entire semester. After a day-long rehearsal, we were told to go outside to eat while they cleaned in preparation for the evening performance. I decided to take him to TGIF as a treat, and as I turned a corner adjacent to the complex, we were confronted by an obvious drug addict who grabbed my son by the throat and demanded money. Back in the day, I was much more nimble, and acted on my immediate impulse to defend my son by kicking him with huge force "you know where" with my very sharp high heel. I grabbed my son's hand and quickly walked to the corner where there was a police officer...it happened so quickly that my son had not known that he was in danger. Believe me, when confronted with harm to those you love, the Mama Bear comes out! I will admit that on the bus ride home I did have a small cry and shook a bit when the whole incident was behind me. (I will also add that after the children were older I worked in the field of domestic violence for over twenty years, and had plenty of practice confronting dangerous situations. My own instinct is to confront fear, but never escalate unless absolutely necessary.)
__________________ Joy...Mommy to Tyrone and Gus r.i.p. beloved Ozzie and Tucker, and Beauregarde the poodle |
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