Northern Mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos)
This little #$!$@# has definitely earned his name. Since he and his mate moved in to the neighbor’s tree directly behind us, he has been chasing everyone off. Squirrels on their usual routes to and from nut trees in the neighborhood have been terrorized by this little bastard. Other birds, usually quite happy to fly about the yards have been run into our back windows. As they fly by, this Mockingbird locks in on them and they have a mid air-strike dog fight until he runs them into various structures… one bird even died. My wife found the poor, over-stuffed bird (apparently not worthy of withstanding the attack) was flown into our back window and then crashed on our lawn. The feathers are still on the glass outside. In the last two weeks since he moved in, they’ve run 6 birds, that we know of, into our back windows.
So, how the hell do we get rid of this $!@#head? We can’t exactly kill it, since it is the state bird and all… not that we’re normally into killing birds. I forgot to mention that he also has mocked my wife and me while we’re in the backyard tending to our flower bed. I mean, it’s our flower bed, $#!off. He makes repetitive warning noises and the closer you get, they get louder and more frequent. He’s literally tormenting, killing, and annoying every other happily-existing animal in the neighborhood. I’ve gone out to throw a rock or two at him, and while he hasn’t dive bombed me, I’m sure he’s working it up in his little birdhead.
Any ideas for getting him out of our area? Fake owls? Concrete shoes?
