redrocks Posted December 8, 2003 Report Share Posted December 8, 2003 Them blue-tits have been at my Gold Top again. Any advice on how to curtail this behaviour? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fRed Posted December 8, 2003 Report Share Posted December 8, 2003 Many you should let the misses in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedZepperin Posted December 9, 2003 Report Share Posted December 9, 2003 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redrocks Posted December 11, 2003 Author Report Share Posted December 11, 2003 What would you recommend for great tits? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bcfc seattle Posted December 11, 2003 Report Share Posted December 11, 2003 put one of the lids on a mouse trap.. oh wait you probably want to scare em off not kill em... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedZepperin Posted December 11, 2003 Report Share Posted December 11, 2003 Great tits are normally bigger. I believe that some of the larger species are very big indeed and cause all sorts of milk bottle top havoc. They get to the milk by knocking off the beakers. Enormous knockers can be a bit of a handful, in fact. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redrocks Posted December 11, 2003 Author Report Share Posted December 11, 2003 I know what you mean about unruly bird behaviour. I had a particularly noisy ###### on my balcony yesterday morning. To make it worse, I could see the tits bobbing away in my milk at the same time as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedZepperin Posted December 12, 2003 Report Share Posted December 12, 2003 Sounds awful. These creatures can be such a nuisance. Take my neighbours, for example. Where I live, we share communal gardens in the main but they have recently built some new independent houses each with its own front and back yard. They must be having serious trouble in these places with certain types of garden birds. Only the other day, a friend of mine announced that he had broken off his relationship with a lady who owns one of these new houses. He said that she had a terrible thrush problem in her private area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redrocks Posted December 12, 2003 Author Report Share Posted December 12, 2003 Saints preserve us! Living in the states it's interesting how many different species there are here. For example, the lesser spotted woodpecker is quite prevalent here. A colleague of mine actually found a young hatchling of this species that had fallen out of its nest and has reared it to the extent that it is now quite domesticated. It has actually developed some interesting habits to adapt to its domesticated habitat from playing dead to draw in easily-duped insects before nabbing them in its beak and eating them to practising its drilling technique on the family moggy. It really is quite a sight. He puts him on a little stage at times, though personally I think that is a step too far, ie. a little too glitzy and American. His cheesy little pecker attracts flies and hammers away at the pussy all day long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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