stopping a tweeter

[Torquative]

No not the speaker kind, the bird life.

I am writing this as a very tired and frustrated person. Every night for the past month at about 5:30pm this bloody bird starts tweeting in next doors backyard trees.

It doesnt shut up until about 7am.

When your tired and just wanting to get to sleep its annoying, every 20 seconds tweet, tweet, tweet. It then gors silent for about a minute, then ets back into it.

We had heavy hail on Saturday, even then once the hail had started to ease we could hear it going ape ****e

Ive tried spraying the tree with the hose, as soon as I turn off the spray it fires up again, and the mozzies come and attack me.

If it was my tree I'd be tempted to set fire too it in my tired state, but seeing as its in next doors back yard I choose not too.

They deny hearing it, maybe because their bedrooms are at the front of the house.

Does anyone have any suggestions apart from an air rifle or fireworks?? I know of electrical devices that shut dogs up, they emit a high tone frequency which stops the dog from barking - similar to the shock collar thing, only this one you keep in your back yard. Is there anything similar for a damn bird?

I know this sounds stupid but all I want to do is sleep and its finally got the better of me

[bezz]

chop the trees down

[Grennan]

Buy a cat You could always wait till the neighbours arent home and grab a net and try catch the bird and release it far away somewhere. Perhaps even some form of Bird Feeder on the fence or in your yard, try lure it somewhere so you can easily grab it.

[Torquative]

lol i forgot to mention we have a cat, the bird is cheeky enough to swoop at the cat ... I think its the same bird anyway, omly a little thing.

the idea of a bird feeder is a good one, something so simple yet something I hadnt thought of

[commsirac]

No not the speaker kind, the bird life.

I am writing this as a very tired and frustrated person. Every night for the past month at about 5:30pm this bloody bird starts tweeting in next doors backyard trees.

It doesnt shut up until about 7am.

Do you mean 5.30am? or the bird keeps you awake for 13.5hours?

You can always move to a sterile multistorey building with no wildlife in sight or:

adapt to living on planet earth:

Perhaps work with nature instead of against it, get up with the sun, go to bed when it goes down, not only will tweetie stop annoying you, but you'll save on your power bills too.

[Torquative]

no I mean it starts at around 5:30 in the afternoon and doesnt cease until around 7 in the morning.

The reason I am up and online at 12:30am is because its out there now doing its thing, not because I enjoy being tired at work the following day.

It tweets ALL NIGHT, yes Ive checked, tis still dark outside ... Dark usually indicated night time when people sleep

[commsirac]

no I mean it starts at around 5:30 in the afternoon and doesnt cease until around 7 in the morning.

The reason I am up and online at 12:30am is because its out there now doing its thing, not because I enjoy being tired at work the following day.

It tweets ALL NIGHT, yes Ive checked, tis still dark outside ... Dark usually indicated night time when people sleep

Oh, that is no good at all, there's only so much a koala can bear. Perhaps its calling for a mate.......graeme kennedy style.......

[danja]

Ear plugs?

[Troy711]

What sort of bird is it? From what you have said (whistling at night, gone off its heasd and swooping a cat) I am guessing it is a Willie Wag-tail. If so, if you hurt it I will break your face



You will also be up for massive fines if you get caught as they are native AND protected.

[coolngroovy]

You could try cutting up a bicycle tube & throw it in the tree.

The birds think it is a snake & wont go near it.

I sympathise m8, i know what you are going through!

[calais_304]

What sort of bird is it? From what you have said (whistling at night, gone off its heasd and swooping a cat) I am guessing it is a Willie Wag-tail. If so, if you hurt it I will break your face



You will also be up for massive fines if you get caught as they are native AND protected.

lol the ol willie wagtails go off, used to see them at my grandparents farm all the time....wow didn't know they are protected

[Troy711]

All native birds are protected as far as I know however you 4are leaglly allowed to shoot a wedge-tailed eagle if it is a pest to livestock.. which is prett rich considering a wedgies diet consists of upwards of 95% carion and of the 5% they hunt only 3% is mutton (or so I read).

Honestly, I think the best way to talkle this bird issue is (if it is a willie) go to the pet store, buy some meal worms and start feeding it. You would be surprised at how awesome these little birds are. My parents have one that visits their house everyday and he is so friendly he will take food out of your hand.

The thing I love about willies is that they have 'small bird syndrome'. They fear nothing.. I have seen them swooping dogs, magpies, currawongs and even harrass a wedgie! Check out these pictures...




That is a willie attacking a brown goshawk, a bird that could easily catch and eat him for breakfast lol.

[Troy711]

Also, would you REALLY want to kill something with babies as cute as these?



Just look at their eyebrows, they look sooo cranky!

[Troy711]

If I ever heard of anyone hurting protected fauna I would report them ASAP to the police or RSPCA...

[Philthy]

Honestly, I think the best way to talkle this bird issue is (if it is a willie) go to the pet store, buy some meal worms and start feeding it. You would be surprised at how awesome these little birds are. My parents have one that visits their house everyday and he is so friendly he will take food out of your hand.

The thing I love about willies is that they have 'small bird syndrome'. They fear nothing.. I have seen them swooping dogs, magpies, currawongs and even harrass a wedgie! Check out these pictures...

On the farm I grew up on we used to have willie wag tails. They would hop along next to us for the whole 700m walk to the bus stop, then be waiting there for us when we got home. I miss those little guys

[minux]

The next person that suggests using a bb gun or any other method to illegally kill native birds will be taking a holiday.

[quick308]

The next person that suggests using a bb gun or any other method to illegally kill native birds will be taking a holiday.

nobody knew what type of bird it was. it could be an asian minor (or another introduced bird) they make heaps of noise and they are introduced. so in that case you would be doing the right thing. if it is native then no dont kill it

[Philthy]

You could always try rubber snakes or fake eagles that you put in the tree, or even on the fence since it is the neighbours tree. I have seen a few houses where rubber snakes have worked quite well

[Torquative]

Troy/all

At midnight when your stressed by lifes problems and have the added annoyance of a bird making racket since the early hours, anything sounds like a good plan, but Im not going to kill it. Its not its fault it found a nice hangout and goes off like a house alarm all night the same way its not my fault when I am singing karaoke drunkl at 1am or fill the street with JCCC cars.

I'll try the rubber bike tube snake approach and see if it scares it off. all I need is for him or her to move to the reserve just behind us where it can go nuts all night and I cant hear it.

Also I have NFI what sort of bird it is, all I know is if I spray it with water it bounces back, if its hailing hard it still makes noise and I saw something small swooping at the cat, dunno if it was this particular noise bird or not ...

[Jo3_Blo]

Haha lol.

Yeah, would get annoying though.

Dunno what to suggest tho. As I would never condone harming an animal.


But speaking of Willy Wag Tails - we used to have one that came to our place, he'd eat from us and all. Very cute/friendly little bird and full of life.

Had no idea they were protected tho! Come to think of it, I havn't seen one of these birds for a long time.

Indian Minors......grrr...I hate those lol. Damn curry fags lol. But all the same, I wouldn't harm them.

[dynamytedave]

:my:

[blackpearl]

crackers.....

[Troy711]

Does it sound like this?
http://www.birdsinbackyards.net/imag...leucophrys.mp3

[Torquative]

Dave is that a photo of your car by a speed camera or somethin in the avatar?

Troy BINGO, thats the one except put the first 6 seconds on repeat all night. Tis out there doin it right now the little bugger

[Troy711]

I suggest getting friendly with it, willies are pretty cool and are fairly happy living with people. Just feed it some meal worms, catch it and then bring it to my place. My parents willie could do wit a friend