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RE: What is your "true harbinger of spring"

In the last 60 or so years I think I have seen maybe 5 or 6 Robins gathered in one yard just once or twice and thought it unusual... they are quite territorial. But just last week I saw more than 200 Robins all in the few trees and bushes in one small tri-cornered park near here... I think that doubled the sum total of all the Robins I have ever seen.

I pray the rains don't "harbinger of spring" like that!

 

[Semper Vaporo]

Posted By vsmith on 03/24/2009 1:59 PM
When the %$^#&@ Mockingbird comes back our house and starts blaring its song at 3 am in the tree right above our window

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=779OWVW4G6o

This little begger by waking me night after night has tempted me invest in a nice classic little double-barrel something....


He is staking out his territory. Record his "song" this year and then next year start playing it back on loud speakers at 2:30 AM about 1 week before he usually starts his claim making. See if that will keep him away...

Of course, This means you will have to listen to YOUR recording a week longer and for a 1/2 hour earlier (and longer) than you would have to put up with his song, but you will get to say you drove it away!

Of course, songs change a bit over time and you may have to do a new recording every few years, but in that year you will get to sleep 1/2 hour longer than the years you are making your "claim" for the property against the bird.