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steverules wrote:The egg will be fine. I had a bird make a nest on my front porch last year. I though it was cool. Everytime I'd go outside the mother would fly away but return once I was off the porch. I watched the next daily. Three little eggs. Then the blessed even happened. The little birds hatched. You know what happens when they hatch? The eat and poop. Not in the next, though. They hike their asses over the side of the nest and shoot it out from there. And this is several times a day. Then the mites set in. I had mites running around the nest, the poop, everything. I grew to hate those birds but didn't bother them. When they left the next I threw the nest away. The same bird came back this year wanting to build another nest. This time Stevie didn't play along. My advice Goblin, pitch the egg, trash the nest and post some more pictures of your hotness in our forums. The birds would want it that way.

*can't stop laughing*


i have bird nests in front of my house. 3. and wasp nests in the back yard. just 1, we had 2 but one side got mean and invaded the other side.


the wasps are cooler.

My bird-story contribution:

We set up a birdhouse in the backyard, maybe about 20 feet from the house, as we usually do. Birds have nested there before, and this year a pair of bluebirds have taken up residence. However, the male seems pretty territorial...he must see his reflection in the kitchen window or something, because every so often he'll come fluttering up to the window, hover a second, land on the sill, and just kind of peer inside for a few moments. Then, discovering (yet again) that there isn't another bluebird nearby, he flies off again.

OK, maybe not a wholly entertaining story, but it's funny to see him do it like 10-20 times a day.

some birds are EXTREMELY defensive of their nests. there's this yellow type, maybe the chickade?, that had a nest in my parent's garden growing up. I thought one day "I'll go pick some flowers"
doo-dee-doo little 9 year old goblin is scampering through the garden when
WHOA!!
this damn bird comes out of nowhere and DIVE BOMBS me. I happened to look left just in time to duck.
maybe that's what killed my childhood....

Try stealing the eggs of a Canadian Goose.

Holy crap those things'd face down a bear if they had to.

rkolter wrote:Try stealing the eggs of a Canadian Goose.

Holy crap those things'd face down a bear if they had to. :o

i tried to take an egg from a goose once. it tried to beat me with its wings but i dropped the egg AND RAN LIKE A MAD WOMAN.

rkolter wrote:Try stealing the eggs of a Canadian Goose.

Holy crap those things'd face down a bear if they had to.

You leave my army out of this! And how did you know about operation "whack yogi"?!

oh wait...uh nevermind.

Last year my mom had a Bluebird, that she named "Hey Blue", that she taught to take peanuts from her hand. It would land on a person's shoulder and grab the peanut from their hand. It usually came in through the garage or the kitchen window. Dad said that once when he was home alone and we were all out of peanuts he landed on dad's head and rooted around in his hair. One time one of our cats pounced Hey Blue in the yard and he got out from under her, hovered over her head and screamed bluebird profanities at her for a minute before flying off. He was pretty territorial but he was also a -lot- smarter than all the other bluebirds that came around the yard.

Hey Blue stopped coming around last year and now we've got a new bluebird that'll take peanuts from the windowsill but won't come in the house and is terrified of people. I named the new one Noisy. Also, there's a woodpecker that'll catch peanuts in midair. He always hits them once and then catches them on the rebound. Every time. It's cool to watch.

Tynan wrote:

rkolter wrote:Try stealing the eggs of a Canadian Goose.

Holy crap those things'd face down a bear if they had to.

You leave my army out of this! And how did you know about operation "whack yogi"?!

oh wait...uh nevermind.

Anything that has attacked Faubio can't be all bad.

RA wrote:

rkolter wrote:Try stealing the eggs of a Canadian Goose.

Holy crap those things'd face down a bear if they had to.

i tried to take an egg from a goose once. it tried to beat me with its wings but i dropped the egg AND RAN LIKE A MAD WOMAN.

Similar animal-mother story: I got bit and thrown by a horse when i was little when I attempted to pet its pony. I had a U-shaped scar for most of my life (its disappeared)


As for the eggs, when can we see pictures?

Teammayhem wrote:As for the eggs, when can we see pictures?

when my computer stops having conniptions. I also still have to snap a good picture of the mother on the nest. everytime I go to do so she flutters away, and it's night here currently. I'll try for tomorrow.

I work in a fab on a big chunk of land in Portland (cleanroom type place). I sit at the front desk, so I can see out the huge front windows. Deer walk by all the time, stuff like that.

The flocks of canadian geese that live here are all trotting around their goslings. It's really funny seeing them hiss at the passers-by. We - trying to get to work (or the cafeteria), Geese - violently defending "their" territory and offspring.

The only story I have about the offspring of animals is the time my friend's goldfish had babies and there were like a hundred of them and they kept dying and she'd pull them out of the tank and flick them behind her dresser for the cat to eat.