Re: Birds

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Posted by Brent on July 16, 2000 at 22:07:18:

In Reply to: Re: Birds posted by Eric T. on July 11, 2000 at 23:16:03:

Birds can inflict injuries even on a large tortoise. Fortunately birds are creatures of habit. You can some times stop behavior on a permanant basis by temporary methods.

You can get bird netting at many garden centers, and place it over the enclosure for several weeks. This will hopfully send the bluejay to easier pikins.

Cheese cloth may work as well. We use it to keep the Robins away from the cherries.The stinkin birds eat the cherries and get drunk. Then they get hangovers the next day. It can be quite crazy at times.Birds crashing into things one day and yelling at each other the next.

Then their poop!!! Red!!! On the side of our white house.

: : Bluejays! I live in a relatively urban area in Portland OR. We have numerous wild critters comming and going. So far the squirels have ignored my tortoises (one Russian, and the other a sulcata yearling); as have the crows, but the scrub-jays are fare to curious for my liking. It dosen't bother me when the take an interest in Skippy-- the Russian-- since he is fairly good sized and pretty stout, but my little Dexter--the sulcata-- is pretty small and the scrub-jays seem to take far too much interest in him sometimes even poking at him with their beaks.

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: Birds can inflict injuries even on a large tortoise. Fortunately birds are creatures of habit. You can some times stop behavior on a permanant basis by temporary methods. : You can get bird netting at many garden centers, and place it over the enclosure for several weeks. This will hopfully send the bluejay to easier pikins. : Cheese cloth may work as well. We use it to keep the Robins away from the cherries.The stinkin birds eat the cherries and get drunk. Then they get hangovers the next day. It can be quite crazy at times.Birds crashing into things one day and yelling at each other the next. : Then their poop!!! Red!!! On the side of our white house. : : : : Bluejays! I live in a relatively urban area in Portland OR. We have numerous wild critters comming and going. So far the squirels have ignored my tortoises (one Russian, and the other a sulcata yearling); as have the crows, but the scrub-jays are fare to curious for my liking. It dosen't bother me when the take an interest in Skippy-- the Russian-- since he is fairly good sized and pretty stout, but my little Dexter--the sulcata-- is pretty small and the scrub-jays seem to take far too much interest in him sometimes even poking at him with their beaks.

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