I wrote a few months back about the problems I had been having
with birds in my 65 foot Pine tree. I kind of outlined how I would
proceed with my bird eradication mission. And mission it was.
This year I fought back big time and won! In early April, I
heard the first squawks of the season. I connected our piano keyboard
to our guitar amplifier and fired away! Each morning between 5:00 and 5:30 if one was awake, I could be heard blasting away at the night Herons who insisted on nesting in my tree.
Incredibly not one neighbor complained!
Each morning I would count about how many flew out of the tree; 2
dozen, 3 dozen, 1 dozen, 4 dozen, then one day there were so many, I
used one of my husbands favorite terms; butt load, which incidentally is a unit of measure, http://www.howtogeek.
I was so tired each morning when I would hear the squawks, many
mornings I just wanted to stay in bed and hassle them later. But no, I
got up and went outside saying to myself. "Oh no you don't!"
That diligence paid off! It took about 3 weeks, then
they were gone. Not one bird was left in my tree! Where they went, no one knows. I just chalk it up to
what the Bible at Ecclesiastes 9:15 says about a city: "And there was found in it a man (or woman),* needy [but]*wise, and that one provided escape for the city by his (her)wisdom.+ But no man remembered that needy man (woman).
There
were no birds to be found in the whole town! I saved the whole town
from those birds this year. Think I got credit? Hah! But that is
okay. I could walk under my tree this year. No dead bird stench, no
big bird poop over everything. Just a quiet and peaceful summer and
fall.
Lesson learned? Diligence pays off! Any goal that is diligently and persistently worked at can and will be realized!
Next year those birds may try to return to my 65 foot Pine tree. You know what I have to say about that?
"OH NO THEY WON'T!"
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