air strike

[San Franpsycho]

dagnabbed birds have been at my recently acquired Evergreen Maple and Wisteria!
..and ate my just-planted fridge-germinated seeds too.
...and broke everything they didn't eat.
I guess its nesting season. but grr anyway.

 

[San Franpsycho]

vermints stripped it in just a few days!

 

[San Franpsycho]

After they finished the Wisteria, the maple got the treatment.
(For some reason they mostly skipped the coral bark)

 

[San Franpsycho]

Caught in the act! Theory confirmed. Evidence still right there in his beak…Just look at that guilty face! Please also note: further evidence in the lower left - leaves brazenly pilfered from my Coral Bark maple up on the deck! I’ve even got the aerial view. Can there be any doubt? Just look! Guilty as sin!

Have you ever seen such a clear cut case?

 

[just.wing.it]

Evergreen Maple??....the hell?

Sorry about that....definitely sucks.
BB gun?

 

[San Franpsycho]

dang things raided my feshly-planted pomiogranite and cotoneaster seeds too... after all time i kept them in the fridge. This didn't happen when we had our trusty rooftop-sentinel-cat around. miss that guy.

I am unarmed and, squeamishness aside, its too densely populated around here to start taking shots w/ anything... folks might get the wrong idea
It seems to be tapering off now, pretty sure it was about nesting season.

yeah, I picked up an Acer Paxii (not Japonica, its native to southwest China, like Szechuan) from a follow bonsainutter leaving town. Hope it survives.

 

[TinyArt]

Rig some netting?

For the trees, I mean...

Otherwise, I'd offer my granny's recipe for dove & ham pie.

 

[Flowerhouse]

If my local doves were acting up I would put out some premium bird mix. Their tastes can be rather individual, but wild finch mix usually has something for everyone. When they are feeding nestlings, they seem to really like safflower seed.