No a normal person would want to stop a pest doing damage to their home.
Maybe try to re-read the OP.
No a normal person would want to stop a pest doing damage to their home.I didn't " try to come across as some savior to nature". I spoke as a normal human being that don't like killing animals for following their instincts. You on the other hand just want to argue about this and just be intentionally obtuse about it.
I'm finished and don't think I will respond to you again about this subject.
Maybe try to re-read the OP.I'm with pcgeek on this one. It's an outside bird doing outside bird stuff. Just let it be.
Odds are if you shoot it there'll be a different outside bird doing outside bird stuff outside soon.
I mean I'm not going to get in an argument over it but that sounds like a bird doing normal bird stuff. Singing and crashing into stuff, that's what they do.Maybe try to re-read the OP.
... runs into our deck glass door and tears the screen on the door
Idk, I don't have an expectation of nature to obey my arbitrary rules. If I've got a screen door that can't do it's job (keeping nature out of the house), the screen door is the problem, not nature. Replace it with a glass one or leave the door closed so the animal doesn't know it's not a place to fly.^
How many times would you accept it tearing up your door screen? That's where I feel that it has crossed the line
Nope guys, you are wrong.
We read no report of any other birds doing it, yet can assume many other birds have similar access and could. This is not normal. It is an asshole bird.
Why do people try to pretend that there are good and bad, innocent and guilty people, but it can't apply to animals? It can. This bird is not meeting any of its survival needs by doing this.
If it can be caught and put into bird jail which is then isolated and no longer causing problems, who would like to take custody of it to take care of while in jail? If it is humane enough to do this to people, then asshole birds shouldn't be exempt.
Pretty sure that doors were invented over a century ago, as were glass windows. Screen windows and doors, 150 years seems about right but probably more recent for peasants who had to settle for cloth.Idk, I don't have an expectation of nature to obey my arbitrary rules. If I've got a screen door that can't do it's job (keeping nature out of the house), the screen door is the problem, not nature. Replace it with a glass one or leave the door closed so the animal doesn't know it's not a place to fly.
I feel like some of y'all wouldn't have made it through life just a century or two ago. You know we used to not have windows or doors right? We were a part of nature, not in spite of it?
I can talk to people though. It's just a bird. Birds aren't stupid though, odds are good it's either confused or pissed off. We get hundreds of birds around our house in the spring and aside from the occasional territorial mockingbird they keep to themselves.Pretty sure that doors were invented over a century ago, as were glass windows. Screen windows and doors, 150 years seems about right but probably more recent for peasants who had to settle for cloth.
You think that a century or two ago, people would just say "oh well" if an animal was damaging property? Seems pretty far fetched.
What about people? If someone keeps walking into your home, do you decide that you just have to put up with it because once upon a time ago, locks weren't invented?
Yeah.....but so are seagulls, since the idiotic government decided they were "migratory". Never mind that there's still plenty of them residing in NY state, in the dead of winter.Did you see where that bird is a federally protected species?