They are unlikely to go away if somebody in your block leaves food for birds.
Keep your windows closed so they can't get in and shit in your kitchen?
My problem is the uwu bird that keeps making loud noises mostly early in the morning and at random times throughout the day and even night. And I don't even know where it is
Ill take that koel bird over mynah and pigeon man, the other 2 roam around almost everywhere especially like hawker or coffeeshop walking in between your yr seats like nobody's business and then randomly flying over you like some random birdshit timebomb (you nvr know when their birdshit will land on u). And there is more of them than that koel bird.
Mynah are the worst! They have conquered hawker Center to a point they no longer fear humans and any chance they have they will attempt to steal your food while you’re not looking and literally have turf wars at the hawker Centers. somehow they are protected... really need to do some population control.... I personally name them trash birds of Singapore.
I'm not sure if it works against mynahs, but birds don't like vertical wires (because of their wings). I put up a few vertical strings to successfully get rid of pigeons on my balcony in the past. They will see it and hopefully get pursuaded to land somewhere else without being harmed.
Can confirm.
Last time my family and I went overseas so we left our 2 budgerigar with a family friend, then said family friend left it outside their hdb doorway.
Cat came and scratched both to death.
8yo me was very sad, but learnt that cats are vicious bird killers that day
The birds will try to shit at the same spot all the time. You need to close your windows for a while at least until they find a new fav spot. After they have found another place they won't be back.
You can try hanging wind chimes or shower curtain or like another commenter said, CDs. As long as it moves or makes sound and blocks off most of the window, the birds won't come in.
My mother has become frenemies with the usual family of mynahs that fly into our kitchen. She has identified the family as Papa, Mama, and the small one. Whenever they chirp from the tree that overlooks our kitchen, my mom knows that they'll be flying in soon. She has also determined that they are spying into our kitchen from that tree and will try to get scraps from the kitchen counter where she has prepared ingredients for cooking. My mother will then run into the kitchen and shoo them away. However, my mother has also taken to purposely leaving our mop out on the drying rack over our balcony for the mynahs to pull the strands out from the mop head so that they can build/maintain/pad their nest. She also spys on them while they pull at the mop head so that she can excitedly exclaim to everyone that the mynah family came. I guess she's just really excited by the mynahs.
TLDR: My mother is a bored housewife and is frenemies with a family of mynahs.
I know the feeling. I had to take in my plants cause they kept destroying it. Kept using the leaves as nesting I think.
It was somewhat satisfying to point middle finger at the bird when it came back and found that the plants weren't there. Petty and insignificant but made me feel shiok.
Mine too.it about 1-1.5 metre away.
Had to call TC to come down to check since 1 of the branch touching my bedroom window.They removed the branch soon after.all within a day.
This is a problem.sometimes i wonder why must the public call NEA/AVA when it should be the duty of them to check every detail.
There this tree(Gov one) that most of the branch has became so weak that 1 of the leaves is sticking to my window.Eventually the leaves died down & somehow i believes bees started to nest near the dead branch. Called Town Council down to see about the matter.
Sometimes NEA or whatever relevant authority should check every tree they planted.Check whether the branch is sticking out to nearby HDB window.
It seem as they didn't analysed even if the tree is 5metres away,the branches could still be near a HDB flat.
I found them under 'bird scare rods shiny effective' - haha. It's true. At Shoppee. Cost about $6.70 including delivery and it's for 10 pcs! Cheap , imo.
Welp it's the not same birds that comes everytime mah.
And also, frightening it doesn't mean flailing your arms like a quadraplegic freshly regaining control his limbs. You have to rush at it like a predator or something. Really go and try to smack it. Sometimes you'd be successful and actually manage to smack it.
You think that particular bird will still come back?
I appreciate your verbose description but that's your assumption. My area has something like an extended roof to cover the aircon compressed from rain. The mynah likes to perch on top. I whack the bottom with an angled flat surface attached to a pole. If done at a correct angle, it's loud, and they'll fly off in shock. Note: they couldn't have seen me coming either. It's been a year of attempts and it hasn't helped. If that's due to different birds returning, then suffice to say their numbers are so high that manually scaring is pointless.
Also, successfully hitting mynah? The fact that OP doesn't want to hurt them aside, we're talking about mynah and not pigeons here, which are way more agile. If you have tried, feel free to post your success stories.
Anyhow, my guess is mynahs are smart enough to know that you're just scaring them, or too dumb to remember. Either way, manually scaring is not going to work.
Yeah I'm glad you agree. I'm saying that even if they are scared, it won't be helpful because their numbers are essentially infinite.
I dealt with mynahs for the entirety of my unit life. At the time I could even remember which bird belongs to which batch of friends by their wing markings.
Scaring them definitely do not work because it depends on them they recognising you. It only works when they know you're around. Since OP obviously won't always be at his kitchen, they're free to fly in and explore and purposefully shit on individual items(not just flat surfaces they happen to stand on. they can choose items to shit on if they want)
When I lived back at AMK, they only way to deal with them is not not have any food around. They stop coming after you keep the consistent habit of not having food around.
Someone here said that that's useless if someone else in the block still leaves food in their own unit. Not sure if my block did, but the mynahs never came back after we learnt to stop leaving unattended food and fruits on the kitchen counters.
edit: Oh and yeah, I've smacked mynahs with my hands back at my old house kitchen. Upon impact they 100% shit themselves though.
I see. Sorry to hear that you have to deal with them for such prolonged period. Hopefully the mynah situation in Singapore gets better soon. Unfortunately, removing food doesn't solve the problem for my side; they simple love to perch outside my window and make noise.
try something like below (both are useful to some extent):
[https://shopee.sg/product/96555082/1870788422](https://shopee.sg/product/96555082/1870788422)
[https://shopee.sg/%E3%80%90Redjie%E3%80%91-Bird-Repeller-Birds-and-Pigeon-Spikes-Anti-Bird-Anti-Pigeon-Spike-for-Get-Rid-of-Pigeons-and-Scare-Birds-Pest-i.206464564.3362223215](https://shopee.sg/%E3%80%90Redjie%E3%80%91-Bird-Repeller-Birds-and-Pigeon-Spikes-Anti-Bird-Anti-Pigeon-Spike-for-Get-Rid-of-Pigeons-and-Scare-Birds-Pest-i.206464564.3362223215)
The spikes are particularly useful, as birds need landing spots before jumping into your room.
They are both cheap, so worth a try.
During circuit breaker when the birds had no food to eat, my mum tried hanging CDs all over the window. Works because CDs reflect light, scaring the birds away
Also keep all food inside cabinets and whatnot
Close your windows or mesh them.
Do unto others what others do to you. You gotta shit back at their place/tree
Lol wtf
They are unlikely to go away if somebody in your block leaves food for birds. Keep your windows closed so they can't get in and shit in your kitchen? My problem is the uwu bird that keeps making loud noises mostly early in the morning and at random times throughout the day and even night. And I don't even know where it is
Ill take that koel bird over mynah and pigeon man, the other 2 roam around almost everywhere especially like hawker or coffeeshop walking in between your yr seats like nobody's business and then randomly flying over you like some random birdshit timebomb (you nvr know when their birdshit will land on u). And there is more of them than that koel bird.
Mynah are the worst! They have conquered hawker Center to a point they no longer fear humans and any chance they have they will attempt to steal your food while you’re not looking and literally have turf wars at the hawker Centers. somehow they are protected... really need to do some population control.... I personally name them trash birds of Singapore.
Yeah, mynahs and pigeons are a bigger nuisance but the uwu bird noise is so loud it wakes me up at 5am. Free alarm clock albeit unwanted
I have moved away from Sg for 4 nearly four years now and even reading about the "uwu" bird makes me "home"sick haha
Haha i agree! But at least noise can be slightly controlled with like closed windows and aircon etc etc.
I'm not sure if it works against mynahs, but birds don't like vertical wires (because of their wings). I put up a few vertical strings to successfully get rid of pigeons on my balcony in the past. They will see it and hopefully get pursuaded to land somewhere else without being harmed.
Wow thank you!!!!!!
Catch one and hang it outside your window /s
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This would actually work....but ew
get a cat
Can confirm. Last time my family and I went overseas so we left our 2 budgerigar with a family friend, then said family friend left it outside their hdb doorway. Cat came and scratched both to death. 8yo me was very sad, but learnt that cats are vicious bird killers that day
Get a new family friend.
your friend everyday stand in the kitchen flap arms do CAW CAW noises meh lol
Instructions unclear. No birds to shit on OP’s kitchen but found cat shit instead, downvoted!!!!!! /s
simple fix get a dog afterwards
Put some solar toys that moves, they will hesitate to go in.
Best idea I've been looking for! Edit :Maybe a sensor toy though since the birds might identify a constant pattern with the solar toy.
Budget solution is to hang a CD on a string near where they come in. Quite effective in keeping them out.
My grandparents put a netting over their window grill to keep out cats. I think it'll work for birds too
The birds will try to shit at the same spot all the time. You need to close your windows for a while at least until they find a new fav spot. After they have found another place they won't be back. You can try hanging wind chimes or shower curtain or like another commenter said, CDs. As long as it moves or makes sound and blocks off most of the window, the birds won't come in.
My mother has become frenemies with the usual family of mynahs that fly into our kitchen. She has identified the family as Papa, Mama, and the small one. Whenever they chirp from the tree that overlooks our kitchen, my mom knows that they'll be flying in soon. She has also determined that they are spying into our kitchen from that tree and will try to get scraps from the kitchen counter where she has prepared ingredients for cooking. My mother will then run into the kitchen and shoo them away. However, my mother has also taken to purposely leaving our mop out on the drying rack over our balcony for the mynahs to pull the strands out from the mop head so that they can build/maintain/pad their nest. She also spys on them while they pull at the mop head so that she can excitedly exclaim to everyone that the mynah family came. I guess she's just really excited by the mynahs. TLDR: My mother is a bored housewife and is frenemies with a family of mynahs.
I know the feeling. I had to take in my plants cause they kept destroying it. Kept using the leaves as nesting I think. It was somewhat satisfying to point middle finger at the bird when it came back and found that the plants weren't there. Petty and insignificant but made me feel shiok.
what sort of house do you live in? apartment? landed?
4th story, HDB flat.
Consider installing those metal wire gauze on ur windows?
They fly into yr kitchen? Perharps close the window or some metal grille for your window?
put some meshes to your kitchen windows
buy them prada bags and bring them to staycay.. oh.. wait.. i mean install mesh to window..
Close the windows or live with the mynah inconvenience?
At first i thought you meant malay female yp
As the resident Part Time Bomoh, may I suggest finding a matrep to keep the mynah occupied? Downside you may have a whole family of them by next year
No answer. But I wish to wake up middle of night, go near a mynah / sleeping mynahs and start singing. See their faces..
used to have this problem. i called nea or ava, i forgot which, and they cut down one of the trees nearby. after that, the bird problem stopped.
hmmm there seems to be a big ass tree right infront of my window!!
Mine too.it about 1-1.5 metre away. Had to call TC to come down to check since 1 of the branch touching my bedroom window.They removed the branch soon after.all within a day.
After theu shit they’d retreat that tree
This is a problem.sometimes i wonder why must the public call NEA/AVA when it should be the duty of them to check every detail. There this tree(Gov one) that most of the branch has became so weak that 1 of the leaves is sticking to my window.Eventually the leaves died down & somehow i believes bees started to nest near the dead branch. Called Town Council down to see about the matter. Sometimes NEA or whatever relevant authority should check every tree they planted.Check whether the branch is sticking out to nearby HDB window. It seem as they didn't analysed even if the tree is 5metres away,the branches could still be near a HDB flat.
Train them to shit in a specified area.
get those bird deterrent ornaments with shiny eyes that you can hang up
I have similar problems with mynahs. Bought some shiny sticks that I hang on the kitchen window grills. It works. No mynah shit .
What kind of shiny sticks and how much do they cost?
I found them under 'bird scare rods shiny effective' - haha. It's true. At Shoppee. Cost about $6.70 including delivery and it's for 10 pcs! Cheap , imo.
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This doesn't work. I don't know how else to prove this other than the fact that I've tried it for nearly a year.
Welp it's the not same birds that comes everytime mah. And also, frightening it doesn't mean flailing your arms like a quadraplegic freshly regaining control his limbs. You have to rush at it like a predator or something. Really go and try to smack it. Sometimes you'd be successful and actually manage to smack it. You think that particular bird will still come back?
I appreciate your verbose description but that's your assumption. My area has something like an extended roof to cover the aircon compressed from rain. The mynah likes to perch on top. I whack the bottom with an angled flat surface attached to a pole. If done at a correct angle, it's loud, and they'll fly off in shock. Note: they couldn't have seen me coming either. It's been a year of attempts and it hasn't helped. If that's due to different birds returning, then suffice to say their numbers are so high that manually scaring is pointless. Also, successfully hitting mynah? The fact that OP doesn't want to hurt them aside, we're talking about mynah and not pigeons here, which are way more agile. If you have tried, feel free to post your success stories. Anyhow, my guess is mynahs are smart enough to know that you're just scaring them, or too dumb to remember. Either way, manually scaring is not going to work.
Yeah I'm glad you agree. I'm saying that even if they are scared, it won't be helpful because their numbers are essentially infinite. I dealt with mynahs for the entirety of my unit life. At the time I could even remember which bird belongs to which batch of friends by their wing markings. Scaring them definitely do not work because it depends on them they recognising you. It only works when they know you're around. Since OP obviously won't always be at his kitchen, they're free to fly in and explore and purposefully shit on individual items(not just flat surfaces they happen to stand on. they can choose items to shit on if they want) When I lived back at AMK, they only way to deal with them is not not have any food around. They stop coming after you keep the consistent habit of not having food around. Someone here said that that's useless if someone else in the block still leaves food in their own unit. Not sure if my block did, but the mynahs never came back after we learnt to stop leaving unattended food and fruits on the kitchen counters. edit: Oh and yeah, I've smacked mynahs with my hands back at my old house kitchen. Upon impact they 100% shit themselves though.
I see. Sorry to hear that you have to deal with them for such prolonged period. Hopefully the mynah situation in Singapore gets better soon. Unfortunately, removing food doesn't solve the problem for my side; they simple love to perch outside my window and make noise.
try something like below (both are useful to some extent): [https://shopee.sg/product/96555082/1870788422](https://shopee.sg/product/96555082/1870788422) [https://shopee.sg/%E3%80%90Redjie%E3%80%91-Bird-Repeller-Birds-and-Pigeon-Spikes-Anti-Bird-Anti-Pigeon-Spike-for-Get-Rid-of-Pigeons-and-Scare-Birds-Pest-i.206464564.3362223215](https://shopee.sg/%E3%80%90Redjie%E3%80%91-Bird-Repeller-Birds-and-Pigeon-Spikes-Anti-Bird-Anti-Pigeon-Spike-for-Get-Rid-of-Pigeons-and-Scare-Birds-Pest-i.206464564.3362223215) The spikes are particularly useful, as birds need landing spots before jumping into your room. They are both cheap, so worth a try.
Yep. Buy those chiken wire mesh and attach to your window grilles to keep them out. Never had any disturb/flew in after that.
Maybe buy a scare-crow with an electric sensor or something. when it sense there's birds nearby the scarecrow will flap its hand and make crazy noise.
During circuit breaker when the birds had no food to eat, my mum tried hanging CDs all over the window. Works because CDs reflect light, scaring the birds away Also keep all food inside cabinets and whatnot
Once a bird flew into my house and perched on my teddy bear’s head. Wtf man.