Much Too Anxious!!

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Bearcarver

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Much Too Anxious!!




I’m getting very Tired of My Friend Here:
He and his Buddies have been circling my house for years, and now he’s getting much too friendly!!
If it wasn’t for the fact that they do a good job of getting rid of dead animal carcasses, I’d have dusted this guy off a long time ago!!

So now he’s stinking up our Bird Bath.

I guess he was worried about me, because I don’t get outside much any more.
He thought maybe I was gone, and he missed a couple of Free Meals!!

The Bird Bath won’t be much good to him soon, with the colder weather coming, unless he wants to Ice Skate, so he’ll have to get his water elsewhere!!!

Hasta La Vista, Baby!!!

Bear

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I would think after he was scared out of there a couple times he wouldn't return. Red Ryder in the butt wouldn't hurt him.
 
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You could put an electric dog collar in the bird bath. If he lands in it just give it a zap, he wont come back, shouldn't kill him. Also will allow other wildlife you'd like to enjoy to be unmolested since you'd control the zapping power.
 
I read that Penn is having a black vulture problem. The new urban goose?
Maybe you need to move your owl decoy?
Just started getting turkey vultures in NW MN about the last 10 years. Only major differences is turkey have bright red heads AND they don't like people so not a pest
 
I would think after he was scared out of there a couple times he wouldn't return. Red Ryder in the butt wouldn't hurt him.


Thanks Rider!!!
I don't have a Red Rider any more.
I have a better one that I use to shoot Carpenter Bees.

Bear
 
I understand your rationale Bear, but I would have tagged that nasty creature long ago...dead animal removal or not :emoji_laughing:

Robert
 
Turkey vultures we leave alone. Black vultures will attack young calves, so they pretty much get dispatched on site. If you leave a dead black vulture just laying there, others will not go near it.
 
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You could put an electric dog collar in the bird bath. If he lands in it just give it a zap, he wont come back, shouldn't kill him. Also will allow other wildlife you'd like to enjoy to be unmolested since you'd control the zapping power.


Hmmm, I never knew you could do that with an electric Dog Collar!!
Cool !!

Bear
 
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I see them circling all the time around here but never on the ground, let alone in the bird bath LOL! We have a large reservoir nearby so they don't hurt for water.
I'd take one of those over the 10,000 sparrows we seem to have now.....
 
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Much Too Anxious!!




I’m getting very Tired of My Friend Here:
He and his Buddies have been circling my house for years, and now he’s getting much too friendly!!
If it wasn’t for the fact that they do a good job of getting rid of dead animal carcasses, I’d have dusted this guy off a long time ago!!

So now he’s stinking up our Bird Bath.

I guess he was worried about me, because I don’t get outside much any more.
He thought maybe I was gone, and he missed a couple of Free Meals!!

The Bird Bath won’t be much good to him soon, with the colder weather coming, unless he wants to Ice Skate, so he’ll have to get his water elsewhere!!!


Hasta La Vista, Baby!!!

Bear

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Wow interesting!

I only ever see Turkey Vultures in TX.
It's against the law for us to mess with em though.

I'm sure you can think of something to scare it off. My first thought is to put something in the bird bath that a big bird like him wouldn't enjoy stepping on but the little bird woulnd't be bothered by but not sure what that would be or if even possible.

I wonder if something like a remote control speaker device you could trigger would work. You just press a button and have it do a dog bark and you could repeatedly scare the crap out of that bird and he would no longer come around lol.
 
I wonder if something like a remote control speaker device you could trigger would work. You just press a button and have it do a dog bark and you could repeatedly scare the crap out of that bird and he would no longer come around lol.
As I said earlier, black vultures will not go anywhere near a dead one. The gov. encourages us farmers to put out fake dead ones rather than killing them. You can actually buy these fake ones to put out in areas where there are black vulture problems.
 
As I said earlier, black vultures will not go anywhere near a dead one. The gov. encourages us farmers to put out fake dead ones rather than killing them. You can actually buy these fake ones to put out in areas where there are black vulture problems.
Oh interesting!
Sharks are kinda the same right. A dead shark in the area and they scatter is my undrestanding haha :D
 
Not sure I've seen the black heads up here, lots of the red head ones, but they are gone for the winter now, I'll have to pay closer attention in the spring and take notice what color they're heads are, are they a separate species or would the color of they're heads be the difference in Male or female
 
I know a coonass that might have a recipe.....just sayin.......
Does it have Golden Marlin in it? The stuff works!!!

But 12Ga, 1 5/8's oz of nickle plated Lead shot at 1375 FPS works better though.:emoji_laughing: :emoji_thumbsup: :emoji_thumbsup:
 
I read that Penn is having a black vulture problem. The new urban goose?
Maybe you need to move your owl decoy?
Just started getting turkey vultures in NW MN about the last 10 years. Only major differences is turkey have bright red heads AND they don't like people so not a pest

I don't know about the Black Vulture problem in PA, but I don't have an Owl Decoy, because I don't have a "Crow" problem.

Bear


I understand your rationale Bear, but I would have tagged that nasty creature long ago...dead animal removal or not :emoji_laughing:

Robert

LOL---I could make it quick & painless if I used the 10 GA Pump I bought Bear Jr for his 15th Birthday, 35 years ago!

Bear
 
Bear
LOL---I could make it quick & painless if I used the 10 GA Pump I bought Bear Jr for his 15th Birthday, 35 years ago!

Bear
I shot a 10 for first and last time many years ago. there is nothing painless about 3.5" magnum from a single shot full choke 36" barrel. LOL
 
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