This place is for the birds...

[Spiky Bugger]

Not BariatricFacts, my new (to me, it was constructed the same year I was, so it's old) house is for the birds. Specifically feral parrots. This part of SoCal has been taken over by flocks...many flocks...of HUGE, LOUD parrots...origin subject to debate.

Also, peacocks sufficient that "Peacock Crossing" signs are required.

Those signs always remind me of Donna...

 

[Clematis]

Bwahaha. Let's get Trump on this issue

 

[Charris]

Spiky you are to funny. Lol

 

[southernlady]

my new (to me, it was constructed the same year I was, so it's old) house is for the birds. Specifically feral parrots. This part of SoCal has been taken over by flocks...many flocks...of HUGE, LOUD parrots...origin subject to debate.

Not sure what is worse, feral parrots or bats...we still have bats in our belfry!

 

[Spiky Bugger]

Not sure what is worse, feral parrots or bats...we still have bats in our belfry!

Then you have few BUGS in your belfry. Locals here complain about bird ****...lots and lots of it.

 

[southernlady]

Then you have few BUGS in your belfry. Locals here complain about bird ****...lots and lots of it.

Yeah, bat **** is messy! Our house has ventilation "windows" at each end of the attic. They had been screened and boarded up from the inside before we moved in. The bats actually reside between the decorative window slats and the inside screen. And their dropping hit the roof under it on one side and the ground on the other. We are looking at ways to cover those slats with ventilated soffit.

 

[DianaCox]

I loved the wild parrots when I lived in Santa Monica.

 

[bearmom]

Color me jealous. One of my favorite memories is of eating breakfast outdoors in Costa Rica, and having a pair of huge blue mccaws come out of the forest and land near me to watch me eat. Parrots are noisy but smart, and I like their antics.

 

[Spiky Bugger]

Color me jealous. One of my favorite memories is of eating breakfast outdoors in Costa Rica, and having a pair of huge blue mccaws come out of the forest and land near me to watch me eat. Parrots are noisy but smart, and I like their antics.

A pair sounds nice...this negates the need for an alarm clock...lol

 

[DianaCox]

http://www.havasiwf.org/the-concret...stery-of-wild-parrots-in-southern-california/

Not buying the Busch Gardens story - there were flocks of them in Santa Monica when I moved there in 1977.

The story *I* heard was that a truckload of them overturned back in the 1960s and they were accidentally released all at once.

 

[Sandy]

A pair sounds nice...this negates the need for an alarm clock...lol

We get a dozen or so every so often and although they are noisy they aren't anywhere as obnoxious as these sound. Geez!

 

[Clematis]

(My earlier "bwahaha" was for the deer crossing recording, not your bird cacophony.)

I saw the report on the peacocks with their noise, poop and road-blocking meanderings invading a CA town. People think they're just so beautiful... until they move there.

Monk aka Quaker Parrots which tolerate cold climates are in NYC, NJ, OR. Supposedly, their feral turn was rumored to be due to an overturned truck, too. (Since debunked.) Loud perhaps. But awww, parrots are so darn cute. (Again easy of me to say since there aren't any around here.)

Around here starlings, not in any way cute, completely take over a 30' tree -- usually right outside one's bedroom window -- and the hundreds of birds shriek all night long (no, they never seem to sleep). The only solution is to wait until dawn when they fly off for food (in 10 minutes they can empty the seed in all the feeders I put out for cute gold finches and woodpeckers), then hire someone to completely cover one's 30' tree in a net for a week so the rotten birds take roost in your neighbor's tree.

 

[bearmom]

Egads that is obnoxious. We have some bald eagles and plenty of hawks that seems to keep anything from getting too comfortable around here. If they aren't helping out down there, I think it may be time to take up falconry.