How do you get birds to shut up?

[Anonymous]

It's just bad right now because its mating season. They will calm down in a couple of weeks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can't believe there is yet another thread about hating birds singing. You people are the most miserable pieces of work I have ever encountered. The sound is so beautiful. If you are so stressed out that you can't appreciate the sound, then reevaluate your life.

Now a rooster...that shit is horrible!

Agreed. So many posters on DCUM seem to hate/fear nature and animals. I despair for the future. No wonder we are ruining this planet. Miserable pieces of work, indeed!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
No, I hate "birdsong" - it's no more pleasant than a car alarm or a dog barking. It's not endearing to listen to, day or night.

Wow, you suck.

[Anonymous]

You move to the top of a high rise in a congested city and make sure there is no green roof or plant of any sort on your level.

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:THEY ARE SO EFFING LOUD. I don't find it cute or pretty or soothing. How do I deter birds from congregating nearby, and thus chirping their heads off? Is there a device? A sound only birds can here that drive them away? How do I shut them up?

Ear plugs. Move to a large city.

And please, shut up about it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anyone who has seen A Christmas Story should recognize that as the same “Red Rider, 200 shot, range-model” BB gun that Ralphie lusted after for Christmas.

OP: please do not emulate that .gif.

The Red Rider (or any smooth-bore BB gun) is not sufficiently accurate for humane pest elimination in the suburbs. Wounding a game animal (or any animal) is cruel and inhumane.

Instead, I suggest a silencer-equipped pellet rifle with a precision-rifled barrel like the Gamo Whisper rifles:

https://www.gamousa.com/family.aspx?familyID=71

Silencers integrally installed on air rifles are 100% legal and unregulated in all 50 states plus DC, by the way. The Gamo is accurate enough for humane head-shots on small pests out to 30 yards.

However, BB guns and other air guns are not toys, and you need to learn proper hunter safety through an accredited hunter safety class to eliminate any risk to neighbors / other animals. Please approach this seriously and responsibly.

Also, the birds may be protected species, and if they are migratory, they could be protected under federal as well as state law. Penalties for harvesting protected game in violation of law may be quite severe.

Wouldn’t a plastic owl or an indoor/outdoor cat be easier? (Though to be fair, cats kill in far less humane ways; they often keep wounded prey alive for hours merely to torture them for their own amusement. Fact.).

[Anonymous]

Rubber snake

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can't believe there is yet another thread about hating birds singing. You people are the most miserable pieces of work I have ever encountered. The sound is so beautiful. If you are so stressed out that you can't appreciate the sound, then reevaluate your life.

Now a rooster...that shit is horrible!

Would you say the same about a dog barking in the early morning, or all the time? I don't find birds chirping their heads off any more pleasing than a dog barking its head off. It's all annoying and after a while, can drive anyone insane.

Dogs bark to sound an alarm to humans or other dogs. It's totally different. Yes I find incessant barking annoying. Birds...very nice and relaxing. Where I live we also have frogs, crickets etc and I love it in the spring and summer.

The intent of why the animal may be making noise may be different, but to different people, it's equally annoying and obnoxious. You find birds singing "nice and relaxing" - I might as well be listening to a pack of dogs barking, or car alarms going off. But maybe you need to reevaulate your life if you find those sounds irritating?

New poster and not the person to whom you're responding, but....You do realize that the whole "birds loudly chirping in the very early hours" is not a year-round thing, right? It happens in the spring. That's about it, at least where I live here in the DC suburbs. Sure, there are some birds that chirp in the summer but it's not the huge chorus of loud calls and chirps that happen in the spring. So this is going to pass, like it does every year. I'm guessing you'll say that it doesn't matter, it's still driving you crazy RIGHT NOW, but...Get a white noise machine, and earplugs, or whatever. It's one season and will come to an end. No reason to get this kind of worked up over it. If you're tired during the day because of it, well, why haven't you tried the suggestions above to mask the noise?

[Anonymous]

You have a problem

[Anonymous]

Plant these in your yard - http://ar.audubon.org/news/nandina-berries-kill-birds

[Anonymous]

I love birds, and birdwatching and have birdfeeders so I can do close up bird watching...and I too hate the loud out of sync chirping noise outside my window in the wee hours of the morning. It isn't about hating birds or nature.

It is an obnoxious noise when you are trying to sleep and it gets stuck in your head. It isn't a beautiful birdsong chorus. It is hundreds of small birds chirping over top of each other.

It is equally obnoxious when a woodpecker goes at something just outside your window or a cardinal pecks continually at a window. Out in nature - I love them, but right outside my window before 6:00 and it drives me mad.

[Anonymous]

I’ve not read the other replies. But, you’ve got to be kidding! Birds singing is a beautiful sound! I think of them as being happy it’s sprong! I’m grateful I can hear them. That I’m alive and it’s spring time. They’re happy to be alive and that it’s spring too!

[Anonymous]

We live out in the country and I feed the birds year round. I can hear birds, owls, cows, coyotes, sometimes roosters, frogs, crickets, ..... It’s soothing to me. These are the sounds human beings were meant to hear. We are part of nature. Car horns, buses, doors slamming, traffic, ...Those are the unnatural sounds. Nature sounds are part of us. Maybe reframe your thinking. The birds are mating right now. They’ll quiet down in a few weeks. We are the ones building in their territory.

[Anonymous]

A dog behind my house would bark non stop. So o bought an air horn. If the owners wouldn’t train him, I would. Worked for birds too. They moved away. So did the dog.