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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Your bird dive-bombs the cats???

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Your bird dive-bombs the cats???

I'm jealous! Perhaps that would be the answer to the feral neighborhood cats, if I but had a dive-bombing bird!

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Originally posted by Wishimay:
I whistled a song and it chowed into mah face.

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
DD picked up a baby bird four years ago. As it turns out, it was an English sparrow hatchling, prolly the only kind of bird that didn't need to be sent to a wildlife rehab facility. (Robustly populated invasive species)

Chirpy may had have West Nile or been concussed because she would peck off-target when young and I swear to god had seizures. As a baby she wolfed down meal worms. Since then we've tried to figure out what this bird needs to be healthy. Almost lost her a few times, as internet info is sketchy at best. Seed was not enough. Her cage was too small and too isolated. Thanks in part to sis and hubby, we discovered the magic formula: water (of course), meal worms, bird seed (she only likes the little ones so she tosses a lot out of her cage, which goes outside for the mourning doves), whole wheat bread sprinkled with oil, flax and chia seed, foraging greens, bits of cheese, whatever houseflies I can kill, and a few bits of fruit. A big cage she can fly in, by the window. A little house she can hide in. I'm going to ad a real live plant. At this point, she's healthy enough to lay a well-formed egg.


The garden is growing well enough (once a few plants expired). The red corn is as high as my waist, the yellow corn as high as my knee, and the drying beans have flowers. A few baby tomatoes here and there, quite a few baby Japanese eggplant and various peppers, and at least a few of the sunflowers sprouted and are growing.

I'm going to add blue penstemon, pale peach/yellow monkey flower, Spanish lavender, and (more) Dusty Miller, and redberry (rhamnus illicifolia) to the Cleveland sages, autumn sages, germander sages, monkey flowers, misc CA currants, sagebrushes, suncups, succulents, and hollyleaf cherries already there!

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Originally posted by FREMDFIRMA:

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Your bird dive-bombs the cats???

I'm jealous! Perhaps that would be the answer to the feral neighborhood cats, if I but had a dive-bombing bird!

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Lure in some Jays.
They're quite aggressively territorial, and will dive bomb anything including humans, but especially they do not like feral cats.
Corvids are another option, but they're even worse pricks.

-F

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Originally posted by Oonjerah:

"Our little innocent-looking cockatiel" is a small parrot = JawS!

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