AGGRESSIVE

1. If your bird pecks at you when you are filling its dishes he feels, right or wrong, that you are violating his space.  Use a baster or something with a long neck to refill his water dish or pull out dishes and refill from the outside if they have a sliding door that will cover the dish hole while you are filling the dish. 

ALLERGIES

1. It has been proven that the best pet to have for a person with allergies is a bird or a fish. 

BATH

1. A plastic bottom for a to go box works well, though may need frequent changing.  Styrofoam boxes do not stand up well to the hopping motions of their little feet.

CALLER

1.   Insert a screw eye into the end of a small wood broom handle, then remove the screw eye and sprinkle rosin into the hole.  Then place the screw back into the hole and twist back & forth to call birds.

CARE

1. Birds are messy creatures who figure if we keep them in a cage they are entitled to throw their seeds any where they want.  You can get a seed catcher to cover the outside bottom of the cage but I also recommend putting newspaper or plastic on the floor under the cage to catch those items you don't want ground into your carpet or floor. 
2. When a hurricane approaches some say it is best to let your bird weather the store in their own home and leave them food and water in a plentiful supply.  HOWEVER, I consider pets part of my family and just as I would not pat my child on the head, wish them good luck and leave them with plenty of food and water while I trudged off to safety neither would I ever leave any pet, including my bird behind.  A cage that fits the bird and bring plenty of food and water for yourself and your bird and get the blazes out of the way of the hurricane.
3. To protect your bird and outside ones from sliding glass doors place decals on them.  Window chimes on both sude of the door work really well. 

FEEDER

1. Place a bird feeder outside a window outside your bedroom window, when you wake in the morning you may hear the happy songs of bird or watch them eating.  A relaxing way to a new day. 
2. To discourage squirrels - install on a 6 foot pole,  place a 12" length of 4" pipe over the pole, then tie the top on to the bottom of the feeder.
3. Don't place your feeder near trees as a squirrel will just drop in for an extended bite or two.
4. Hang your bird feeder on wires between your home and the garage, between trees or between poles. 
5. Cut bottoms from 10 plastic bottles, milk is best but have also seen soda bottles used as well.  String wire between bottles, 5 on each side of the feeder.  They spin dropping unwelcome guests to the ground.
6. A playful dog or cat  near the place for your bird feeder may discourage squirrels but also the birds to.
7. Wedge a small can filled with suet between tree branches or posts for a treat for the birds that squirrels do not seem to have much interest in.
8. Suet mixed with bird seed in a shell of an orange, grapefruit and I've also seen lemon and suspend it with string in a tree.
9. Wooden salad bowls work well, but make them different sizes.  Small on bottom and large for top cover.  Join bowls with a threaded rod and secure with nuts and washers.  To hang the feeder bend the top of the rod in a hook design or you can use a lamp hook and nut.  Leave plenty of space to feed large birds and a smaller space for small birds.  Instead of hooking directly to the tree you can also hook to a length of chain and then hook this to the tree. 
10. Glass salad bowls also work well as described above.  For a glass bowl you will need to drill with a carbon tipped glass or masonry tip.  If you don't have one your local glass shop may do the drilling for you for a small fee or nothing at all. 

FOOD

1. Melted kitchen fat, bread crumbs and sunflower or pumpkin seeds (cut in half) and combine in a paper cut.  Once the mixture become hard you will cut away the cup and then you can hang from a tree in a mesh bag.
2. Combine melted suet & birdfeeder, pour into a empty milk carton and place a loop of string in the top for hanging before the mixture hardness.  After it is hard tear away the milk carton and hang. 
3. 1 cup crushed crackers, 3/4 pound of lard,1/4 cup peanut butter, 1 cup raisins,1 cup sesame seeds,  1 cup of sunflower seeds.  Use a double boiler, melt lard over low heat.  Cool, then place in a bowl.  Mix with lard the rest of the ingredients, except the peanut butter.  When well mixed add the peanut butter. Stir until well combined.  Mixture will harden when place in refrigerator for 12 hours.  Place in bird feeder(s) or hang in netting.  Makes 1 1/2 cups when finished.

   SHELTER

1. A winter shelter for several birds is easy to make.  You can pile several trees together, like your old Christmas trees, sprinkled with bird treats like popcorn or cranberry's strung together around the edges.
2. Use an old boot you no longer want or wear.  Hang it in a tree upside down.  The smaller birds will build a nest in the toe area.
3. Set  a mailbox in a tree or on a pole with the door open.  
4. A 8" square hollow concrete block works really well.  It should be smooth on all sides, you will need to cover the top with a 9" suret to serve as the roof.  Use a piece of pipe or a wooden pole as the bottom for 4 feet or more off the ground.  You'll want to dig down at least 24" to secure it in the ground.   Use a 3/16" masonry bit for the drill and drill a round  1 1/2" hole in the middle (center) for the bird to fly in, the hole should face East.  Blue Birds prefer this kind of dwelling.  If you drill a large hole starlings will find a new home.  After the family flies away lift up the block from the 9" base squares of 1/4" plywood and pole and to clean it out so it will be clean for the next family that moves in.

PESTS

1. Outside birds can be a pleasure or they can be down right pesky.  They can destroy your berry or fruit crop in a matter of days.  To protect your trees and bushes you can cover them with netting.
2. Cat's are good to chase away unwanted birds since they can climb to within inches of a unwary bird.  After while the alarm will go out and you will be left with far less, in not none, birds in your yard. 
3. If you are a afraid that your cat may kill the birds and the end goal is just to scare them away, then tie a bell to his collar and this will give birds the warning that your watch cat is on the prowl. 
4. Placing a stuffed animals in the branches like a bunny will make wary birds leave, but be sure to move the bunny every few days or the birds will become adjusted to it and ignore it after awhile. 
5. Birds prefer Mulberry bushes to fruits and berry s.  By planting one or two or whatever you need here and there your crop may be safer than without.  Don't plant it near the house or your favorite areas as the fruit is messy.
6. I have been told that brown bags around bunches of grapes with a vent hole cuts down on bird damages.   
7. When birds fly into the house through open doors and windows, use a broom to guide them back out. 
8. Place mothballs in small netted bags around your fruit in the trees and your berry bushes. 
9.  String bottle caps together and hang in trees and bushes.  The best kind are the metal ones as this strikes fear into birds because they reflect. 
10. Sprinkle crushed eggs among rows of freshly planted seeds to keep birds away and mark the rows.
11. Paint circles on a short length of your hose and leave coiled in the yard to scare birds. 
12. Using a no longer used short hose, paint as above and place in trees or bushes to give the birds a fright that makes them want to continue their flight to somewhere else. 
13. Pantyhose legs tied in lumps and filled with fresh human or dog hair clippings hung in bushes will drive the feathered creatures and deer away.  Must be changed frequently.
14. Place paper bags over corn to save from birds and frost.
15. A scarecrow can be mounted on rooftops as well as garden and a yard for the true scare tactic. 
16. Place a chimney screen over the top of your chimney to prevent intrusion of your home space as well as nests.  Use 1/2" galvanized steel square mesh.  With tin strips cut out corners to form a cross.  Fold up the sides to form a box with an opening on one side.  Place open side down into the chimney flue.  It also blocks cinders & sparks. 
17. Gable vents are a favorite for all kinds of birds.  Staple a piece of window screen over the exterior of the vent o no one invades them. 
18. To give pigeons the boot make a mixture of 1 Tablespoon oloeresin capsicum (sold at the drug store) into 1 quart of rubbing alcohol and paint ledges and other paces they like to perch with it.  It irritates their feet.