(Unofficial poll) wild birds: what is the most ANNOYING pest

[TwoCrows]

SQUIRRELS. SQUIRRELS, SQUIRRELS, SQUIRRELS. THE WORST. We CANNOT keep them out.

YES, these! Just awful critters. Not only do they eat pounds of bird seed and chew and destroy feeders, but they eat flowers, veggies in the garden, chew on sheds, destroy electrical wires under vehicle hoods. Very destructive creatures.

 

[azurbanclucker]

Wild Pigeons. Flying plague rats.

 

[EverythingDucks]

Mice. I hear them chewing away at the plastic top every night, and it's right outside my bedroom window. The squirrels aren't as bad but they're still a pest. I do like watching them run around and chase each other up trees though.

 

[Beachcomber]

Squirrels, snakes, and ants & hornets getting into the nectar feeders.

 

[CHlCKEN]

Setting up a bird feeder at my place would be a deathrap for all birds, squirrels, and mice who try and take advantage of it. Why you ask?

One word: Cat

Our barn cat is barley a barn cat since we have almost no mice (she brought one home yesterday, so there are still some) Which means she does a good job but now that they don’t populate at all she dives in head first to any other creature she can find. This means if we ever planned to set up a bird feeder there would be no birds to feed from it after day 1.

 

[CHlCKEN]

I have “neighbors” (don’t have a neighborhood so they’re just people who live close by) who are the masters of pest control in their bird feeders. They use one of those poles that the squirrels can’t climb up because of the bell thing. They have other tactics as well- I’ll ask them about how they overcome squirrels (they don’t have other issues except pest birds- however not hawks)

 

[imnukensc]

No problems with squirrels or other critters in my feeders. Feeders are placed far enough away from trees that squirrels can't jump onto them and squirrel guards keep them from climbing up the poles. As far as my cat the murderess----she can't kill'em all.

 

[mowin]

I put up bird feeders in the fall/winter for one reason.. To bait the squirrels. They chew holes in the eves of my shop. I hate those furry SOB's.
There's only one songbird I despise. Bluejays.....
When I was younger, and living home, I worked 3rd shift. Mom and dad had a bird feeder 15' for my basement bedroom window. I'd get home and would just about be asleep, and those dam things would start squawking.

 

[sourland]

Squirrels ! I have feeders on two different properties, and the squirrels are especially bad this year. I'm thinking about making some squirrel sauerbraten.