With nature, it's all about what's 'common' to the wild animals. If you're not always in the yard or making the same noises, they're going to fly off and come back when they think it's safe. If you're outside hammering all the time even, over time...they may grow less aware of the noise and not feel threatened.
I agree but what I was thinking of is that we have a female cat that had a litter before we got her fixed. She is an inside/outside cat and had them outside. We still have two males, and you cannot pet them. They trust us and you can get close; one prefers to come inside to eat. But we have a dog and they are fine with him. They are just as used to us and the dog so what's up?
Cats don't count. Some just don't like attention and aren't social. Gallagher always talked about cats...you can buy the most expensive cat food in the market and the cat will just look at it, then hike its leg up and lick its own butt.
Cat birds are aggressive....and blue jays will drive the cat birds off. What's really cool is how you always see birds in pairs. I saw 4 pairs of blue jays fly into a tree in my back yard, 2 at a time....this cat bird ducked down to shrub level behind my house until they left. I hate cat birds...I never knew what they were until this year, but always hated hearing their annoying call. If I lived further away from neighbors, I'd invest in a pellet rifle.
I used to have a house in our northern end of the city and fed the birds in the winter. There were a good number of birds but the cardinals were the more pushy of the bunch. I used to watch the chickadees and sparrows feeding. Rarely was there a bluejay. I saw starlings, too. We got the odd woodpecker, mostly downy and hairy.
Facebook
Twitter