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Originally Posted by ROCKETMAN
A pair of mockingbirds have built a nest in a large plant right by our lightpost. As soon as we just step in our driveway he or she flutters right in your face and twice almost pecked my wife in the arm. Anyone else ever had this problem. We are going up north for 10 days so hope mother nature speeds up the delivery process.
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We have had exactly the same problem and finally I put my hand in the bush and rattled their nest - they stay away from me now, just fly up onto the gutter and grumble at me. But when my lovely old lab was alive, and when they had their young flying around, they would make her life hell, dive bombing her and pecking her head while she was doing her business. I used to have to go out with her with a golf club and bat at them to give her some peace. Finally we got so fed up with them I turned the hose on them whenever they came down into our yard, they got the hint and left.
The worst bird we ever had nesting in our yard was a Shrike - a real nazi, it used to attack every other bird coming into the yard and even went for both of us.