Vent: That one week in June when every bird just vanished from my yard

I got my feeders all set up perfect last June with black oil sunflower seed and a new water source, and for three straight days I didn't see a single finch or sparrow. Turns out a neighbor down the street had a feral cat that was scaring everything off, and it took me calling animal control and putting up a motion sprinkler to get them back. Has anyone else had a whole week ruined by a cat or predator situation that made your yard go dead silent?

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the_jennifer19h ago

Oh man, that sprinkler trick is genius. Cats really do wreck everything.

oscar_hunt6111h ago

And of course the cat would pick the one week I actually remembered to refill the sunflower seeds, right? I'm convinced that feral cats have a sixth sense for when you've finally got everything perfect (probably to spite us, if you ask me). The motion sprinkler thing is genius though, I did the same thing after a stray started treating my yard like its personal buffet. It took about two days of the cat getting a face full of water before it decided my yard was haunted or something and moved on. Still, I felt like a total idiot setting up a sprinkler just to scare off a cat that wasn't even mine, but hey, it worked.