"S. McLaren" wrote:

Hi,

I've got a pack of black birds who are rumaging thru my garden, digging up
my plants, mulch etc.. I want to kill them. They are a pest.

Can someone suggest a suitable poison? I tried feeding them rat poison but
it had no effect on the buggers. I roughly know where they like to dig. No
other birds would be harmed because I'll watch over the spot. Anyhow, the
black birds have driven out all the other birds except the big scary ravens.

Cheers!


This might sound silly, but why not try and trap them? The old
'cardboard box balanced on a stick with a string attached' trick works
pretty well for birds and I've caught pigeons in this way (they were
mine - it's a long story - but the trap worked and I got my livestock
back!)

Once you've got the birds in your hand, so to speak, you could relocate
them to a kindly owner - or to the cemetary, depending... While
blackbirds *are* BIS (Bloody Introduced Species), they do make excellent
pets, I'm told, being quite intelligent.

Shame someone with a conscience didn't do something about the first pair
of Indian Mynahs to darken our shores! The filthy things roost in a
camphor laurel just up the street from us and their noise is
*deafening*! Mind you, I've noticed a definite increase in Noisy Miner
numbers over the last few years. They seem to have finally acquired a
taste for introduced plants (eg Camellias) and gotten over their nerves.
Which is good.

Speaking of birds (and sorry to rave on for so long, but this has been
intriguing me): has anyone else noticed a *huge* decline in the smaller
birds of prey lately? I haven't seen a Brown Falcon in years, or even
many Black-Shouldered Kites to speak of! Nankeen Kestrels are still
around and there's a pair of Little Falcons hanging around where I live,
but that's all! Surely it can't *still* be DDT causing raptors to
decline?

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Trish {|:-}
Newcastle, NSW, Australia