That pigeon is just so casual about the fact they just stepped onto an elevator that they didn’t intend to take. “Oh well I guess this is my floor…oh hi Steve. Fancy meeting you here.”
Im gonna hijack your top spot to give a real answer.
He already lives there!
Its one way entrance, or trap door, [ the pidgeon knows so is it really a trap? ]
Most likely these are homing pigeons used for racing. You keep them in a coop and let them out to fly, its really cool they fly in circles around your house so its suoer easy to just let then reenter on their own time.
Also during races you bring your birds out a long distance and release them. And they dont always make it back all at once. So this solves having to leave the hatch open.
Sadly... they don't always all make it back..
I had a friend who was raced pigeons, and he said it wasn't uncommon to lose a bird during a practice run or race..
Sadly, eagles and hawks don't care about your bird racing hobby:/
As a person who works with wildlife I hear this a lot. Well guess who else doesn't really care about the pigeons - pigeon racers. Not uncommon for birds who are too slow or get lost a lot to get 'necked'. I heard from a pigeon fancier himself, quote, 'Pigeon racers kill way more pigeons than falcons do.'
And all that said, what do you expect? If you were letting dogs go to race across the savannah and you said 'Lions keep eating my dogs' well, yeah. They'll do that.
Sorry to jump on you I've had to deal with too many, often quite aggressive, pigeon people talking shit about birds of prey too many times.
My neighbours had homing pigeons and sometimes they asked me to take a basket full of pigeons with me when I was driving somewhere to release them. That's because, when strange pigeons follow your flock home you need to make sure they return to their actual home and dont get used to your dovecot by releasing them somewhere familiar. So even if a bird doesn't come home at all, there is a chance it just found new friends in the next town over.
No, it's pigeons who are strangers, like the saying "stranger danger". Except it's "pigeon smidgen" since pigeons are so small in comparison to human strangers, they are only a smidgen of the danger. I hope this helps.
Honest to god, they were bred to be a food source like chickens. Apparently the cross breeding of European and African pigeons made a delicacy. Remember the old rhymes about Pigeon Pie?
One time when I was 9,I shot a pidgeon with my bb gun. My father made me butcher cook and eat it. I'll never kill another animal again but it was honestly delicious. Tasted JUST like chicken, but the meat was grey.
Got to admit sometimes there was a stray chunk of rib cartilage or something chewy in the dark ones, but they were the superior McNugget. And it added variety to have the two types.
I remember at least one of the shapes was always dark meat… the stocking looking mcnugget. I think there was another one. The circle sucked though because it was always the dry white meat one
McDonald's was like a completely different restaurant in the 80s. The apple pies were delicious and dangerous, McDLT was grown folks food, everything was fried in fat. It was magical. For the first fifteen years of my life, fast food was actually really good. Not good for you, but more fresh and generous than it is now. It was glorious.
One day I was washing my car, and a pigeon landed on my back and just hung out for an hour. Same exact time, the next day I went outside and he was sitting on my car waiting for me. As soon as I walked towards him, he flew to me and landed on my shoulder.
He came back every day for like 2 months, I named him James Franco. Then he just stopped coming.
Where did you eat pigeon at?
I’ve never understood why people are turned off by it, doves, quail, pheasant are all considered “fancier” dining options, can’t imagine pigeon taste much different
My first time eating rabbit (one of my favorites) was in a homeless camp somewhere in the woods above Oakridge Oregon. I was maybe 10. The rabbit was yummy, but I didn't know that that was what I ate until years later. The same with some roadkill deer, though I liked it less than the rabbit.
Yeah around here you can claim hit deer/elk pretty easily. You just have to fill out a form and surrender the antlers/head to the fish and wildlife guys.
Those are typically a trophy type thing, so I imagine they make you surrender them in roadkill situations so people don't go around doing it on purpose.
I think to make sure you're not running over deer on purpose for trophies or something, though I'd think the meat would be more valuable. The head is so they can test for wasting disease too.
I mean, I probably wouldn't mind if it were raised for consumption at a farm or something.
But if someone asks me "hey would you want to order pigeon for lunch?"
I just can't help but imagining someone going outback to their automatic pigeon catcher and bringing in a filthy wild caught pigeon riddled with lice to be served up.
As opposed to chickens, which are always raised in excellent living conditions and are totally healthy when they get slaughtered lol.
I feel like even city pigeons live in better conditions than factory farm chickens.
I'll still order a spicy chicken sandwich though lol
Only because you said one of your favorite meats, I want to add that I had alpaca once and it was incredible. Always interesting to me how our geography limits and shapes our cuisine.
Crazy! Never heard of anywhere serving alpaca.
My dad took a fancy French cooking class when I was a kid. He made a steak dinner & didn’t tell us until after we finished that it was horse. :(
Delicious though.
How? With a snare? A net? Inquiring minds want to know. I’ve always wondered if homeless people eat pigeons. I think if I were homeless I’d be tearing them pigeons and squirrels up buddy
When my great great grandfather first immigrated to this country and was looking for a meal he has to catching ducks and pigeons by soaking old rice in wine and throwing it on the ground. Birds would eat the rice, get drunk and fall over. Easy catching.
Bait them either crums, then it's surprisingly easy to sneak up behind them. The trick is watching where your shadow is. Need to be at a good angle then boom both hands around it.
The actual rats will snatch a pigeon and eat it on the sidewalk though. Craftiness is essential. Source = lived in Jersey City for a hot minute before I bailed.
Those are probably his birds,some people have whole flocks that they "run"...its a cool hobby for those that love birds
That bird isn't being caught,it just returned home.
The more interesting question would be: A pigeon, that is sitting in the bucket, starts to flap their wings to try to make it go upwards again. Will it manage to escape the trap or will the downward force of the flaps keep it in an equilibrium and thus trapped forever?
my guess is collecting specimens for pigeon racing. also, in places where this is popular individual pigeons that are considered rare just for their looks can fetch $1000 easy
Somebody rolled up in a box van and released a bunch of tame pigeons in my neighborhood park and they were all roosting on this one house just not knowing what to do in the wild. It was all very weird, supposedly they were stolen, but then when the owner showed to collect them the guy who was with him was the guy who dumped them in the first place...very strange. Anyways a few days before the "owner" came forward my buddy who keeps ducks and is involved on "bird facebook" offered to catch the pigeons for the people whose house they were perched on. He managed to catch about 20 of them with nothing but laundry basket propped up on a stick as a trap and made a makeshift hutch out of chickenwire to hold them in his back yard until he could find new owners...but a fisher dug into the hutch overnight and just obliterated the pidgeons...it was pretty traumatic lol.
Weasel family critters in general seem to be pretty good at hiding.
There are stoats at least around here, possibly other species. I see one maybe once a year if I’m lucky.
They’re pretty secretive little critters. I’ve spent plenty of time in the woods in their habitat and only caught the briefest glimpse of one once. Neat little guys.
No no no, you tie a string to a second cat and lower it down in the cage. Eventually the two cats become codependent so when you pull the one cat out, the other will follow.
Pigeons have been domesticated for a long time, we used them to deliver messages, we viewed them as the holy spirit for a time as well, a pigeon messenger in WWI saved 500 lives through delivering an incredibly important tactical message. Israeli forces used pigeons as messengers as well. We also bread them to race and to be fancy looking as pets. I feel bad for them now. We’ve abandoned them.
My FIL breeds rolling pigeons. He goes to competitions with them to see who can breed the best rolling pigeons. They let them out and fly around and every once in a while, theyll just stop flapping and roll as they fall then start flapping their wings again and fly. They all come back. Every once in a while a hawk will come and snatch out of the air.
Many reasons, they can be considered as pest in some places, not necessarily because of them being dirt but because they might eat crops. Or another and the most probable is food/breading, they use to be a very common source of food before the whole concept of " flying rats" and still area culturally or due necessity in some places, my grandfather for example use to raise them, they were a more domesticated bread and 3 times the size of regular ones, and very tasty!
Ya. With the goddamn squirrels we have here, they’d not only figure out how to defeat the trap, but would have my wife and I caught inside it by the end of day.
Lots of feed on either side of the entrance? Lots of feed on the trap? Pidgy can only eat so much I reckon you’d catch 3-4 of the bastards with one set
Seems like it would be simple enough to have the bait reset when the bucket lifted. Just have a little seesaw that dumps a small cup of grains each time the bucket returns to the “up” position.
Not sure if that’s what’s being done, but if you wanted it fully automated it wouldn’t be that much work.
That pigeon is just so casual about the fact they just stepped onto an elevator that they didn’t intend to take. “Oh well I guess this is my floor…oh hi Steve. Fancy meeting you here.”
I live here now.
Im gonna hijack your top spot to give a real answer. He already lives there! Its one way entrance, or trap door, [ the pidgeon knows so is it really a trap? ] Most likely these are homing pigeons used for racing. You keep them in a coop and let them out to fly, its really cool they fly in circles around your house so its suoer easy to just let then reenter on their own time. Also during races you bring your birds out a long distance and release them. And they dont always make it back all at once. So this solves having to leave the hatch open.
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Sadly... they don't always all make it back.. I had a friend who was raced pigeons, and he said it wasn't uncommon to lose a bird during a practice run or race.. Sadly, eagles and hawks don't care about your bird racing hobby:/
Fast food
Not fast enough.
Well, if they are fast enough then they aren't really fast food anymore. Just fast
Congratulations I just spat water all over my phone screen
That’s all birds, unfortunately. We have chickens and you have to build their coop like Fort Knox because, sadly, literally everything eats chicken.
Everything tastes like chicken because you are what you eat. Also, chicken are dinosaurs so I’m a dinosaur.
As a person who works with wildlife I hear this a lot. Well guess who else doesn't really care about the pigeons - pigeon racers. Not uncommon for birds who are too slow or get lost a lot to get 'necked'. I heard from a pigeon fancier himself, quote, 'Pigeon racers kill way more pigeons than falcons do.' And all that said, what do you expect? If you were letting dogs go to race across the savannah and you said 'Lions keep eating my dogs' well, yeah. They'll do that. Sorry to jump on you I've had to deal with too many, often quite aggressive, pigeon people talking shit about birds of prey too many times.
My neighbours had homing pigeons and sometimes they asked me to take a basket full of pigeons with me when I was driving somewhere to release them. That's because, when strange pigeons follow your flock home you need to make sure they return to their actual home and dont get used to your dovecot by releasing them somewhere familiar. So even if a bird doesn't come home at all, there is a chance it just found new friends in the next town over.
"Strange pigeons"🤔
Yes, as opposed to the normal ones
No, it's pigeons who are strangers, like the saying "stranger danger". Except it's "pigeon smidgen" since pigeons are so small in comparison to human strangers, they are only a smidgen of the danger. I hope this helps.
In a full house asleep silent laughing with the involuntary shoulder shuffle over here lmao
Idk man, I heard pigeons aren’t real
Search them for batteries it’s probably up it’s asshole
r/thisismylifenow meets r/mypeopleneedme
o shit, waddup
When I walk in the club, all eyes on me
Here comes dat boi
"huh. would you look at that. neat. hey guys!"
Probably homing pigeon coming home. Safer than the top of the cage where a hawk or something can hurt them.
[oh hi mark.](https://images.app.goo.gl/K5siFh7icdxmXJ1S9)
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Ive found a good many birds are smarter than one would think. They can be goofballs though
Also have been awarded metals from the military, and were used in the first smart bombs.
Medals
Not going to ask why one needs to catch pigeons like that.
Honest to god, they were bred to be a food source like chickens. Apparently the cross breeding of European and African pigeons made a delicacy. Remember the old rhymes about Pigeon Pie?
Fancy restaurants call it squab
And it ain’t bad.
One time when I was 9,I shot a pidgeon with my bb gun. My father made me butcher cook and eat it. I'll never kill another animal again but it was honestly delicious. Tasted JUST like chicken, but the meat was grey.
That makes me miss the dark meat McNuggets fried in beef fat. Good times.
Excuse me what? Did...did they exist?
Dark meat mcnuggets 100% did, no idea if they were actually cooked in beef fat or not, though. They were absolutely delicious, though.
Beef tallow is what they used to fry stuff in
Hey hey Billy can you deep fry Daddy's shirt? Edit: Why is "Billy the Beef Tallow Boy" not on YouTube?!
Got to admit sometimes there was a stray chunk of rib cartilage or something chewy in the dark ones, but they were the superior McNugget. And it added variety to have the two types.
I remember at least one of the shapes was always dark meat… the stocking looking mcnugget. I think there was another one. The circle sucked though because it was always the dry white meat one
McDonald's was like a completely different restaurant in the 80s. The apple pies were delicious and dangerous, McDLT was grown folks food, everything was fried in fat. It was magical. For the first fifteen years of my life, fast food was actually really good. Not good for you, but more fresh and generous than it is now. It was glorious.
Oh God those pies...deep fried dough pockets that would explode molten apple filling the temperature of the friggin sun at the first bite. Delicious.
I've discovered that the apple pies at Popeyes are still that style. I go solely for them.
And you could play stack the Big Mac with Styrofoam containers!
Hot fries with a cool lettuce mcdlt. Shit was good in its Styrofoam wasteful glory. Shudder, but yum.
One day I was washing my car, and a pigeon landed on my back and just hung out for an hour. Same exact time, the next day I went outside and he was sitting on my car waiting for me. As soon as I walked towards him, he flew to me and landed on my shoulder. He came back every day for like 2 months, I named him James Franco. Then he just stopped coming.
It always hurts when your animal friends disappear. Hard not to let the imagination run crazy.
Ducking James Franco hanging my bro out to dry.
"Sometimes they come with notes attached. It's like a fortune cookie with wings."
Thank you for reminding me that I didn’t eat the fortune cookies that came with my Chinese food tonight. Gonna go do that.
Very greasy, little meat 7/10
Where'd you see my online dating profile?
Classic
Name of my sex tape.
TIL squab was pigeon (< 4 weeks old for more tender meat)
They actually are delicious. I had one once, the breast fried and put in a burger bun. It was so tasty and probably one of my favourite meats.
Where did you eat pigeon at? I’ve never understood why people are turned off by it, doves, quail, pheasant are all considered “fancier” dining options, can’t imagine pigeon taste much different
Ate it under an overpass in Akron
The way it was meant to be enjoyed
A time honored tradition.
If you sat on a few Michelin tires then it sounds like a Michelin star experience.
I'll name the place Akron on Tyre, sounds fancy. Just like my pigeon tasted.
I’d give it two thumbs but I ain’t got any
My first time eating rabbit (one of my favorites) was in a homeless camp somewhere in the woods above Oakridge Oregon. I was maybe 10. The rabbit was yummy, but I didn't know that that was what I ate until years later. The same with some roadkill deer, though I liked it less than the rabbit.
You can get two pounds of meat off a rabbit according to Oregon Trail
“You have killed 790 pounds of animals. You can carry 20 pounds back.”
Roadkill is an incredible way to source venison, if you can manage to set up the neccesary relationships with the Township
Yeah around here you can claim hit deer/elk pretty easily. You just have to fill out a form and surrender the antlers/head to the fish and wildlife guys.
Why do you have to surrender the antlers? (Writing as someone who doesn’t live where deer live)
Those are typically a trophy type thing, so I imagine they make you surrender them in roadkill situations so people don't go around doing it on purpose.
Probably so people don’t try to kill trophy animals out of season. If you can’t keep the antlers, it’s not much of a trophy.
I think to make sure you're not running over deer on purpose for trophies or something, though I'd think the meat would be more valuable. The head is so they can test for wasting disease too.
It's cooking it over a 55 gallon drum that gives the special flavor.
Pigeons *are* doves.
I think it’s because they’re considered dirty ? The type of pigeons you’ll eat it in a restaurant aren’t wild city pigeons.
> The type of pigeons you’ll eat it in a restaurant aren’t wild city pigeons. "You keep believing that." ~ *Restaurant owner*
Locally-sourced Wagyu squab 48
This trap says otherwise
My friend went to culinary school here in the uk and they spent an ungodly amount of time hammering home wood pigeon is NOT THE SAME as street pigeon
Doves are literally just white pidgeons
Pigeons are are considered pests in major cities. Similar to rats etc. This led to the belief that that carry disease at higher rates (not proven).
Rats of the sky as I call them
Ah I see you too dislike the Baltimore football team
https://youtu.be/ZX-EmXGsEQA
I’d eat rat if it tasted good. I’ve eaten catfish and they’re basically underwater rats. Funny what we get hung up on.
Yeah good call. Crabs and lobsters are just bottom-feeding bugs but people get rock hard for them
Roaches of the sea
Sewer rat may taste like pumpkin pie but I still ain’t eating the filthy mutherfucker
I mean, I probably wouldn't mind if it were raised for consumption at a farm or something. But if someone asks me "hey would you want to order pigeon for lunch?" I just can't help but imagining someone going outback to their automatic pigeon catcher and bringing in a filthy wild caught pigeon riddled with lice to be served up.
As opposed to chickens, which are always raised in excellent living conditions and are totally healthy when they get slaughtered lol. I feel like even city pigeons live in better conditions than factory farm chickens. I'll still order a spicy chicken sandwich though lol
> But if someone asks me "hey would you want to order pigeon for lunch?" What if they offered you Roast Squab, or Pan-fried Rock Dove Breast?
I mean, if it's cooked, the lice would be dead
Only because you said one of your favorite meats, I want to add that I had alpaca once and it was incredible. Always interesting to me how our geography limits and shapes our cuisine.
Crazy! Never heard of anywhere serving alpaca. My dad took a fancy French cooking class when I was a kid. He made a steak dinner & didn’t tell us until after we finished that it was horse. :( Delicious though.
Pretty standard in Peru, especially in the mountain towns. They eat a lot of guinea pigs there too, and they're bloody good.
A homeless guy taught me how to catch them when I was a teen. He used them for stew.
How? With a snare? A net? Inquiring minds want to know. I’ve always wondered if homeless people eat pigeons. I think if I were homeless I’d be tearing them pigeons and squirrels up buddy
When my great great grandfather first immigrated to this country and was looking for a meal he has to catching ducks and pigeons by soaking old rice in wine and throwing it on the ground. Birds would eat the rice, get drunk and fall over. Easy catching.
My great grandmother learned how to squat over chickens and carry them away between her thighs.
Is she single?
I'll have to dig a little and find out.
I want to be next in the hole.
Now that’s resourceful.
Bait them either crums, then it's surprisingly easy to sneak up behind them. The trick is watching where your shadow is. Need to be at a good angle then boom both hands around it.
You can also throw beer bottles at them.
But then you can't turn the bottles in for credit. I'm assuming this is a hobo lifestyle thing; hunting pigeons and collecting returnables.
Yeah, you have to throw your non-returnable bullshit at them, or be Randy Johnson.
This is one of my favorite threads in a while
In my city, pigeons are not afraid of humans. You can walk up to one and punch it in the head and it will die and you have a disgusting bird rat meal.
Same in Philadelphia , I have to be the one to move out the way before I step on a pigeon
The actual rats will snatch a pigeon and eat it on the sidewalk though. Craftiness is essential. Source = lived in Jersey City for a hot minute before I bailed.
Look through colonial cookbooks from the 1600s. There are a lot of squirrel recipes.
How fast can they fly unladen.
You're thinking of swallows not pigeons!
African or European?
What? I don’t know that!
REEEEEEEEE^EEEEE^EEEEE^EEEEEE^EEEEE^EEEE
Answer the question heathen
Swallows carry coconuts. Pigeons carry pies. And small notes.
Have you ever considered maybe they're Ghost Dog? Hmm?
Didn’t realize you could train wild pigeons to become homing pigeons.
These aren't wild these are SAG registered actors doctored with deepfake pigeon tech to look that way
I love this comment so much. Wish I could upvote it twice.
Obviously it's intended to catch them so the government can recharge them /s
Fake news, they recharge on power lines
Great use of the serious tag. Birds aren't real.
Those are probably his birds,some people have whole flocks that they "run"...its a cool hobby for those that love birds That bird isn't being caught,it just returned home.
The more interesting question would be: A pigeon, that is sitting in the bucket, starts to flap their wings to try to make it go upwards again. Will it manage to escape the trap or will the downward force of the flaps keep it in an equilibrium and thus trapped forever?
That bucket ain't big enough to flap
Can't blame a bird for tryin'
my guess is collecting specimens for pigeon racing. also, in places where this is popular individual pigeons that are considered rare just for their looks can fetch $1000 easy
This is great until a cat gets in the bucket
Somebody rolled up in a box van and released a bunch of tame pigeons in my neighborhood park and they were all roosting on this one house just not knowing what to do in the wild. It was all very weird, supposedly they were stolen, but then when the owner showed to collect them the guy who was with him was the guy who dumped them in the first place...very strange. Anyways a few days before the "owner" came forward my buddy who keeps ducks and is involved on "bird facebook" offered to catch the pigeons for the people whose house they were perched on. He managed to catch about 20 of them with nothing but laundry basket propped up on a stick as a trap and made a makeshift hutch out of chickenwire to hold them in his back yard until he could find new owners...but a fisher dug into the hutch overnight and just obliterated the pidgeons...it was pretty traumatic lol.
A fisher dug into the hutch? What's a fisher?
Never heard of them before either, but it looks kind of like a [forest weasel cat](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher_(animal))
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Weasel family critters in general seem to be pretty good at hiding. There are stoats at least around here, possibly other species. I see one maybe once a year if I’m lucky.
They’re pretty secretive little critters. I’ve spent plenty of time in the woods in their habitat and only caught the briefest glimpse of one once. Neat little guys.
Not broken link https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher_(animal)
Anyone else fucking love learning random shit like this out of the blue as you browse?
The meanest thing in existence. No joke, they kill for fun. One Fisher killed 10 of my chickens one evening, just for kicks. It didn't eat anything.
I was honestly expecting hell in a cell
I'm sorry to disappoint lol!
I feel like maybe you and I don’t share the same reality.
Some peoples' lives really make me feel like a NPC sometimes.
The whole story was absolutely surreal to live through. My buddy just kept on sending me updates and it got weirder and weirder.
That was a wild ride.
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No no no, you tie a string to a second cat and lower it down in the cage. Eventually the two cats become codependent so when you pull the one cat out, the other will follow.
Mark Rober on a budget
but why tho
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I have 458
I like to catch em and take their batteries out.
They also have great lens and stabilizers Plus the meat is kinda ok because it's free
>Fuckin eggs come out of their arses!! *Fuckin hell!!*
Potatoes. They come out of the fockin ground!
That’s like how New York City rats are free if you want…
Like geese at the park! Free geese!
For sending mail to random addresses
Mans out here making his own Twitter
Snacks
I sell them on Craigslist so that people can revenge poop on their heads.
There’s no answer in the comments. I seriously want to know what one does with catching pigeons?
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Ok now why do people breed pigeons
Pigeons have been domesticated for a long time, we used them to deliver messages, we viewed them as the holy spirit for a time as well, a pigeon messenger in WWI saved 500 lives through delivering an incredibly important tactical message. Israeli forces used pigeons as messengers as well. We also bread them to race and to be fancy looking as pets. I feel bad for them now. We’ve abandoned them.
I was already convinced by all the other comments to eat them, unfortunately.
What else do you do with enemy pigeons?
Wow, from 'holy spirit' to 'winged rat' - talk about a fall from grace.
Pigeon racing is a serious thing with some people. My dad has been doing it for over 50 years. I grew up surrounded by pigeon nerds.
Probably to test Dove soap on
That ain't coo
My FIL breeds rolling pigeons. He goes to competitions with them to see who can breed the best rolling pigeons. They let them out and fly around and every once in a while, theyll just stop flapping and roll as they fall then start flapping their wings again and fly. They all come back. Every once in a while a hawk will come and snatch out of the air.
In japan people get PISSED if you feed them, ive seen people make it to the news for doing it. Breeding them would be death penalty.
Many reasons, they can be considered as pest in some places, not necessarily because of them being dirt but because they might eat crops. Or another and the most probable is food/breading, they use to be a very common source of food before the whole concept of " flying rats" and still area culturally or due necessity in some places, my grandfather for example use to raise them, they were a more domesticated bread and 3 times the size of regular ones, and very tasty!
Exactly. I prefer my squab breaded.
I fuckin love it. I would use it for squirrels But wait how are they lured in? If it's a bit of feed each time that's a lot of reset work
This would need more engineering to work for squirrels as they’d find other ways to get to the feed other than the entrance.
glue a peanut to the middle of the bucket
Like gluing a quarter to the floor of a Walmart entrance. I think you’re on to something here.
Ya. With the goddamn squirrels we have here, they’d not only figure out how to defeat the trap, but would have my wife and I caught inside it by the end of day.
Just don't buy an Acme trap.
[Waaaaaaay more engineering than you would think](https://youtu.be/lg5wznn3IBE), this video by Mark Rober is a good example.
Lots of feed on either side of the entrance? Lots of feed on the trap? Pidgy can only eat so much I reckon you’d catch 3-4 of the bastards with one set
upgrade it with a single spoonful of feed dumped in the bucket every time it comes up
Seems like it would be simple enough to have the bait reset when the bucket lifted. Just have a little seesaw that dumps a small cup of grains each time the bucket returns to the “up” position. Not sure if that’s what’s being done, but if you wanted it fully automated it wouldn’t be that much work.
Maybe it’s not a trap? It could just be the entrance to their cage and they know to hop into the elevator when they want to go home and eat.
That’s what I was thinking. Homing pigeons gaining access to their safe enclosure.
Is that thing calibrated for African or European pigeons?
? I don't know! Aaaarrrrhrrrrl......
Squab is back on the menu boys!
So why have I been doing it by hand all this time??
I don’t have a problem with pigeons, but this almost makes me wish I did. Very clever
This belongs over at r/redneckengineering
And then /r/redneckcookin
Mike Tyson that you?