Scared to run...

daisyellow
daisyellow Posts: 54 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
...because of the blackbirds that dive-bomb my head.

Suggestions?

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  • klight1236
    klight1236 Posts: 69 Member
    Run faster! That would freak me out and make me not want to run. Maybe go a different way or at different times?
  • daisyellow
    daisyellow Posts: 54 Member
    I've considered changing my running route, but it seems like admitting defeat.
  • SnuggleSmacks
    SnuggleSmacks Posts: 3,731 Member
    There's an app for that.

    https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/scare-a-crow/id542552476?mt=8
  • rduhlir
    rduhlir Posts: 3,550 Member
    Let me guess....Red-winged Blackbirds?
  • daisyellow
    daisyellow Posts: 54 Member
    Naw, these little f***ers are entirely black.

    Even more bummed... at least the red-winged dudes would make me feel a bit stylish.
  • daisyellow
    daisyellow Posts: 54 Member
    There's an app for that.

    https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/scare-a-crow/id542552476?mt=8

    This appears to be for crows - think it'd make any difference?
  • likitisplit
    likitisplit Posts: 9,420 Member
    There's an app for that.

    https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/scare-a-crow/id542552476?mt=8

    This appears to be for crows - think it'd make any difference?

    At one point in my life I was a Certified Audubon Master Birder (even less cool than it sounds). Yeah. It should work.
  • daisyellow
    daisyellow Posts: 54 Member
    There's an app for that.

    https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/scare-a-crow/id542552476?mt=8

    This appears to be for crows - think it'd make any difference?

    At one point in my life I was a Certified Audubon Master Birder (even less cool than it sounds). Yeah. It should work.

    I suppose if I'm going to take anyone's word for it, it's you.
  • Flab2fitfi
    Flab2fitfi Posts: 1,349 Member
    Catch them and bake them in a pie - you will need four and twenty tho.
  • likitisplit
    likitisplit Posts: 9,420 Member
    There's an app for that.

    https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/scare-a-crow/id542552476?mt=8

    This appears to be for crows - think it'd make any difference?

    At one point in my life I was a Certified Audubon Master Birder (even less cool than it sounds). Yeah. It should work.

    I suppose if I'm going to take anyone's word for it, it's you.

    I haven't tried the app, but if it works for crows it'd work for blackbirds.

    Changing your route would probably be easier than fooling with your phone.
  • ROBOTFOOD
    ROBOTFOOD Posts: 5,527 Member
    I'd run with a baseball bat. Would be fun!
  • Marcia315
    Marcia315 Posts: 460 Member
    Catch them and bake them in a pie - you will need four and twenty tho.

    And you need to watch out before they snap off your nose. They are known to do that while one is hanging out clothes in the garden.
  • Flab2fitfi
    Flab2fitfi Posts: 1,349 Member
    Catch them and bake them in a pie - you will need four and twenty tho.

    And you need to watch out before they snap off your nose. They are known to do that while one is hanging out clothes in the garden.

    But remember to log your bread and honey.
  • daisyellow
    daisyellow Posts: 54 Member
    I'd run with a baseball bat. Would be fun!

    I'm going to be "that chick."
  • Sam_I_Am77
    Sam_I_Am77 Posts: 2,093 Member
    Yeah, wear a hat. and glue some rat poison to the top of your hat; they won't dive-bomb you again.
  • carliekitty
    carliekitty Posts: 303 Member
    that is so weird that they bug you. There's a ton of crows here and i run outside and they never bug me…stare at me but never bug me….do you smell really delicious?
  • vmclach
    vmclach Posts: 670 Member
    carry a gun:smooched:
  • htg20
    htg20 Posts: 116 Member
    Tin foil hat! Keep away the crows and everyone else too! haha
  • RunningMs
    RunningMs Posts: 52 Member
    In Australia I've seen people cycling with zip ties attached to their helmets ( this is for the swooping Magpie problem); Perhaps you could fashion a fancy zip tie hat.

    http://www.wikihow.com/Keep-Safe-from-Swooping-Australian-Magpies
  • SonicDeathMonkey80
    SonicDeathMonkey80 Posts: 4,489 Member
    Punch those stupid birds right in the face
  • Zekela
    Zekela Posts: 634 Member
    They are only doing that because you look suspicious... Try acting normal... Wear a shirt with happy black birds on it so that they know you are on their side.

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