Indian myna birds,

[echnidna]

Would'n that rot yer boots
The hijack got hijacked

[Barry_White]

Not trying to hijack the forum, around here Indian Mynahs are a bit rare.... solution 22 sorted them out in our garden.... but bloody feral moggies aren't so does anyone have asurefire bait for bloody cats so I can entice the itlle furry darlings into my pussy relocating equipment?????

How about 1080 fox baits.

[oges]

Interesting Bob, I am good at catching the things to...... big game toady catcher, that's me! might have too try that one.... does it work on bloody seagulls too?

so basically you just dont like animals?

[DavidG]

So what is wrong with the old .177 air gun.
Kills to 20 mtr - 30 if you are good.
Quick.
Quiet.
Cheap.

[bsrlee]

To encourage Magpies, Currawongs, Butcherbirds etc. just toss out some bits of mince (or trimmings of fat etc off your meat) when they are around. The 'word' soon gets around, and if you don't overfeed them (like my late father) they will dig out all the pests in your lawn for you while they are waiting for their handout.

[keith53]

I remember seeing a doco some time ago about a sparrow or swallow (or some sort) problem in some South American country. What they did was to encourage the birds to nest in this large tree. In the evenings, thousands of them would descend to this tree. Then it was surrounded with heaps of 44 gallon drums of petrol which were simultaneously ignited with a dynamite charge on each drum. The fireball mushroom was so huge it engulfed the whole tree and not a bird survived. Maybe a google search might turn up someone in South America who does this type of work at a reasonable price? You could blame it on the French. Say that they'd resumed bomb testing again but their maps were out of date and they thought this was Muroroa Atoll?

[Christopha]

so basically you just dont like animals?

That's precisely incorrect Brett..... I hate FERALS! so look out next time I'm in Sydney

[Trav]

Would'n that rot yer boots
The hijack got hijacked

I call it rejacking!

[Cliff Rogers]

..surrounded with heaps of 44 gallon drums of petrol which ...

That's about $260 each for the fuel alone.... there has got to be an easier way.

[journeyman Mick]

A mate from down Toowoomba way told me that fruit farmers who had a problem with metallic starlings used to do the following. Find their home tree, this usually has hundreds of them living in it. Get a backhoe to dig a trench around it and then lay explosives in the bottom of the trench (the stuff you mix up in a cement mixer using diesel and fertiliser) fill the trench with gravel. At night, when all the starlings are in the nest, detonate explosives. The gravel acts as shrapnel and completley shreds the tree, all the foliage, birds and nests are just wiped out. :eek: Probably wouldn't get away with it nowadays though.

Mick

[ozwinner]

Mick.

Im alert but not alarmed :eek:

Al

[Auld Bassoon]

A mate from down Toowoomba way told me that fruit farmers who had a problem with metallic starlings used to do the following. Find their home tree, this usually has hundreds of them living in it. Get a backhoe to dig a trench around it and then lay explosives in the bottom of the trench (the stuff you mix up in a cement mixer using diesel and fertiliser) fill the trench with gravel. At night, when all the starlings are in the nest, detonate explosives. The gravel acts as shrapnel and completley shreds the tree, all the foliage, birds and nests are just wiped out. :eek: Probably wouldn't get away with it nowadays though.

Mick

Hi Mike,

In today's "anti terror" climate (aka polly bandwagon - to some extent at least) that might be seen as a slightly anti-social thing to do. Somehow, detonating (or even mixing up!) some explosives in a Melbourne 'burb might just be misinterpreted

Cheers!

[Ivan in Oz]

Soak small pieces of bread in cheap, low-quality spirits or wine (you may have to buy this, although some of that Glenfiddich or Grange would probably work.) Scatter the bread around where the minahs usually hang out.

The minahs eat the bread & get drunk, legless & wingless. You can then collect them in a garbage bag and deliver them, marinaded from the inside out, to your local chinese epicurean, who will, no doubt, tell you what to do with them.

After you've done it, you may want to finish off the cheap grog.

I've never heard of using frozen peas to get minahs, but they work with polar bears. You cut a hole in the ice, sprinkle peas around it, and when the bear comes up for a pea, you kick it in the icehole.

I've been searching the web for Indian Myna "Bird traps"
everyone wants an Arm and A Leg for them.
Anyone here have a suitable plan/Design for one....CHEAP!!!

Might try the Soaked bread thing; should be entertaining

[ian]

Do they make wide-angle telescopic sights?

of course they do, your optomiitrist calls them glasses

[Bleedin Thumb]

The best thing is to encourage Noisy Miners, aka Soldier Birds.

Noisy Miners love Grevillias.

Funny thing is, I've never seen an India Mynah in our yard in the 12 years we've lived in our house, yet just across the highway they are endemic :confused:

We do have lots of Noisy Miners (and currawongs ) though.

Us too. We have a noisey Mynah problem people across the street have a Indian Myner problem.

Every Summer the whole neighbourhood has a Channel Billed Cuckoo problem......please please dont nest in our tree....:mad: