bird-buster

i have finally found a way to fight those irritating chirping birds outside the windows!!!!
and i need to thank yeelyn for that....she who is sitting for a major exam and still has time check the blog and smsed me the solution. thank you so much.

and when i mentioned yeelyn's suggestion to aunt, only then she recalled seeing some other people doing that back in germany on trees.

so what does this ghostbuster......ooooppps.........birdbuster need???

1- string
2- old cds
3- scissors
4- ladder
5- tissue to wipe the sweat
6- a voice to scream when the bird makes its way into the room
7- co-operation
8- vacuum cleaner

and so i found a set of old dvds which belonged to someone i borrowed from. let me keep the name secret in case the owner wants the set of series back. sshhhhhh.....
it was a tvb series....translated english name is 'it aint easy being a woman'...something like that lah, staring sheren tang.

and so the mission started with my aunt's help. mom was busy peeling mushrooms dad brought home downstairs and refused to come up!

we started with my brother's room and had to take down cardboard pieces which we used to block the light from coming into the room......and to block the noises of the birds which just like to hang around every morning!
we just lifted the sash (i wonder if it is the right term to use) and then took out the cardboard pieces. now that was the easy part. the difficult part came next. OMG!!!

OMG indeed! bird nest!!!! i made sure all the birds have flown away by hitting the cardboard first. we saw a nest and aunt used a pair of glove to remove it and put it in a plastic bag.

then we vacuumed whatever bits were left by the birds. it was not back-breaking work. we just could not turn on the fan so it was really hot. we were sweating profusely. so there i was on the ladder and aunt was standing below me with the vacuum.

after doing the cleaning, i tied the dvds to the wooden panels. and voila...job done. put back the cardboard pieces, closed the sash, pulled the vacuum plug and moved to the next room.

BUUUUTTTT>>>>>>>>>>>>...........before we managed to set up our tools to start work on my bedroom's windows.........chirp chirp chirp chirp could be heard. WHERE??

i thought it was the birds outside communicating with each other that their resting place had been destroyed. then i listened more closely and strained my ears to the source of the chirpings.

OMG! it came from the plastic bag where we threw the dried bird nest earlier. there were live CHICKS. luckily aunt did not squeeze the nest when she threw it into the plastic bag. i nearly had a heart attack when i found them. and we did not rummage through the nest either. aunt just grabbed the nest and threw it straight into the bag. i put it onto the floor and that place was the source of noise.

MOM!!!!!!! yup, she is the person to call when you need to catch live animals in the house. hahaha....
so mom said to bring the plastic bag with the chicks to the playground opposite and put them onto a tree. let them be fed there and set free. good suggestion. she did it. wahahaha....i still have another bedroom to settle right?

so after that little commotion, off to work in the second bedroom. but it was not as easy as the first bedroom. i had to unscrew and take down the curtain rod bracket because it was put too high that i was unable to lift the sash.

once the curtain rod was taken down....another COMMOTION started. this time, an even bigger one. second heart attack.

so i lifted the sash, and before i managed to lift the cardboard piece, a black bird flew straight into the room and headed down under our bed. i screamed! and aunt followed my scream! and she asked me WHAT??!!! hahahaha....she screamed for no reason!

we igored the bird first because we had another thing to worry about then. when i lifted the cardboard, we found another bird nest and this one still had wet muddy straw. eeww....imagine how dirty our windows where. puke! that is the thing with old designs of windows. too many hiding rooms.

actually, the nest of live chicks was only discovered once aunt removed the nest. scary. so it was another plastic bag handed to mom whose mushroom peeling session was disturbed- twice.

so it was vacuuming, replacing the battered cardboard pieces and tying dvds. then putting back the rod and the brackets. sweat!

work done??? not quite. remember the live bird under the bed????

i suggested to sweep the bird into a dustpan. but mom was WAAAYY AHEAD. she had finished peeling her mushrooms then and after few screamings from me....she came. aahhh.....relief.

aunt moved the bed, mom just picked the bird up with her bare hand and brought it to the playground opposite again. saved!

that was one hour of dvd-tying, bird-shooing and window cleaning work. and the result???
i even tied dvds on the bathroom windows. those 6 pieces of dvds look like easy job to tie right? well, it was for the bathroom windows because there was no cover, no cardboard pieces and no bird nests.

so did the dvds work???
yes they do. the birds no longer fly to the windows and scratch at those cardboard every morning. instead, they have chosen to hang around the trees around our house instead. so i cannot really get rid of their chirpings, but at least their chirpings now are a distance away and will not irritate me. mom has even got me to tie the extra dvds to a flowering tree outside to chase away the birds too.
so if you see dvds/cds tied onto trees next time, you will know why. aunt has finally realised the reason.

but i have another problem....the birds also like to hang under the roof on those wooden panes which you can see in the picture above. can someone lend me an extra-tall ladder????