Getting rid of Orioles (1 Viewer)

[KC Foggin]

You apparently don't know a whole lot about nature.

I've had several Orioles in my yard each Fall & Winter and there is never any interruptions in the other bird's activities. In fact Orioles don't usually even come to feed until they've scoped out the area real well.

You have to remember, nature was around long before we were. Once you start feeding the birds, you can't discriminate as to what bird you are feeding so as Tarsiger stated, you might as well take all your feeders down because it sounds as though you are feeding them for your enjoyment and not for the bird life.

 

[dantheman]

You have to not think of them as 'your birds', but as part of the wider picture.

Easy to say though!

 

[JeffMoh]

Last year we had a California Red Tailed Hawk building a nest for weeks and the Orioles returned. They swooped and pecked and harrassed the hawk until she left her unfinished nest."

I think you will find that any resident birds you have will react aggressively to the presence of a Red-tailed Hawk! Poor Red-tails get harassed wherever they go. In San Francisco my wife and I watched one being mobbed by an odd group - a gull, a House Sparrow, two House Finches and two American Crows.

Jeff

 

[MrDanger]

Just leave the orioles alone!! Alternatively take all your feeders down.
Why can't you people just enjoy wildlife without having interfere??

Why don't you either:
A) Answer the question
B) If you don't know of an answer, keep your opinions to yourself.

For those that look to this board for answers, I got an airsoft gun and harrassed the Orioles until they left (never shot at them, just near them). Now the owl can raise it's chicks and not worry about pesky (and filthy, dirty, aggressive) Orioles killing them

 

[Tarsiger]

Why don't you either:
A) Answer the question
B) If you don't know of an answer, keep your opinions to yourself.

For those that look to this board for answers, I got an airsoft gun and harrassed the Orioles until they left (never shot at them, just near them). Now the owl can raise it's chicks and not worry about pesky (and filthy, dirty, aggressive) Orioles killing them

Seems as if you found a solution without recourse to BF opinions.
And,strangely, I'm entitled to my opinion - like it or not.
Perhaps you should have posted this on a shooting/hunting/fishing forum!

 

[MrDanger]

Seems as if you found a solution without recourse to BF opinions.
And,strangely, I'm entitled to my opinion - like it or not.
Perhaps you should have posted this on a shooting/hunting/fishing forum!

You're not entitled to an opinion. The post was about how to solve a problem. Your post was about how to live with a problem. Get a clue.

 

[KC Foggin]

For those that look to this board for answers, I got an airsoft gun and harrassed the Orioles until they left (never shot at them, just near them). Now the owl can raise it's chicks and not worry about pesky (and filthy, dirty, aggressive) Orioles killing them

Keep talking like that and you'll not get many sympathetic readers.

 

[Jasonh1966]

We live in southeast lower Michigan. We have both wrens and orioles. We have a wren house, and oriole feeder, a hummingbird feeder, and feeders for peanuts, safflower seeds, and black oil sunflower seeds. The orioles feed mostly at their oriole feeder, which the humingbirds also share. Once in awhile an oriole will perch on the window hummingbird feeder, but they don't stay. The wrens come to the window peanut feeder. Everyone seems to get along swimmingly. I don't care for the starlings because they hog the peanut feeder and fight with each other, but there they are. When a hawk shows up once in awhile (we have a couple), we politely ask them to leave, and they do. We also regularly get downy, hairy and red-bellied woodpeckers, american goldfinches, purple finches, grackles, crows, rose-breasted grosbeaks, red-winged blackbirds, cardinals, blue jays, titmice, chickadees, and nuthatches. The point being that we love the wrens and the orioles and they seem to do fine in the same neighborhood.

Maybe put up a wren house to attract a pair of them.