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bird feeder empty alarm

 save going down the garden to look
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a small incendiary device in disguise of a peanut put in first so the birds peck at it last, which lets off a bang and a plume of red smoke to alert you and a tiny fold up flag which then unfolds so you can see it at a distance( in case you were out)..so you will know that the feeder is empty and you can then go down the garden ready armed with fresh peanuts (not forgeting to replace the special one) you will save hours over a year.
—grannymop, Oct 19 2007

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       I think the bang and flash would discourage any birds from using your feeder ever again. And possibly harm the bird if it ingests the small incendiary device. Get ready for a nasty fine from the EPA (or whatever the English equivalent is).
—21 Quest, Oct 19 2007
   

       //the bang and flash would discourage any birds from using your feeder ever again//   

       Using bangs and flashes as scarecrows don't seem to discourage birds for more than a very short amount of time. Hence the need for the devices to go off many times per day.   

       //EPA// I guess that'll be the RSPCA (as I don't think the RSPB does enforcement). Anyhow, that would be for the real world (which this idea clearly ain't). Round here I think that [po] deals with all the avian transgressions.
—boysparks, Oct 20 2007
   

       And xenzag, too, I think. I just figured I'd be the first to point it out.
—21 Quest, Oct 20 2007
   

       my sparrows can clean out the feeder in an hour. I do feel guilty when I neglect them though. I'd like this better, if the last bird to eat was not blown to bits though.   

       a better idea (if you really like birds - and if you're feeding them, I imagine you do) would be to have the last nibble go through a thread that's attached to the string that's holding it to the tree and so it falls to the ground. an alarm on the ground could then send a silent message to perhaps your mobile or your email!?   

       category: home - garden - wildlife.
—po, Oct 20 2007
   

       Why don't you get sparrows with peanut allergies?
—Ian Tindale, Oct 20 2007
   

       you do but you just don't see them. they're under the hedge gasping for breath
—po, Oct 20 2007
   

       No need to blow up the last sparrow ! but rest of it's ok. Last peanut could just be a switch, with no bang... Flag could have a short message on it like: HUNGRY!!! +
—xenzag, Oct 20 2007
   

       What might eventually happen, given evolution (if it exists) is that the birds learn to avoid the last nut, leaving it for the squirrels.
—Ian Tindale, Oct 20 2007
   

       don't squirrels evolve?
—po, Oct 20 2007
   

       how about a loud screech to scare the birds from the immediate area before exploding. Oh yeah, why even disguise it as food? thats kinda mean.
—rascalraidex, Oct 20 2007
   

       If they evolved into boxes they could be called Squarrels.
—xenzag, Oct 20 2007
   

       "don't squirrels evolve?"   

       tempted to post video of Droll Yankee squirrel-proof bird feeder... or the squirrel stealing babe ruth candy bars from the dispenser...   

       Granny, please move this to a better category.
—dentworth, Oct 20 2007
   

       Squirrels don't evolve. They were imported.
—Ian Tindale, Oct 20 2007
   

       with the damn geese
—blissmiss, Oct 20 2007
   

       There should be a "There was an old lady.." Bird Feeder, that traps successively larger animals which are respectively lured to the feeder by preying on the previous animal.
—rcarty, Oct 20 2007
   

       //given evolution (if it exists)//   

       If you honestly feel the need to put a qualifier in parenthesis for evolution then you might as well put one in for everything.   

       In which case I should have wrote:   

       If you (if you exist) honestly feel the need (if it exists) to put a qualifier (if it exists) in parenthesis (if they exist) for evolution (if it exists) then you (if you exist) might as well put one (if it exists*) in for everything (if any of it exists).   

       *both item (if it exists) and concept of number (if it exists).   

       Problem is you'd probably have evolved into something unrecognisable by the time you finished writing a paragraph.
—boysparks, Oct 20 2007
   

       I don't believe in evolution.
—Ian Tindale, Oct 20 2007
   

       Oh no... I'm off
—xenzag, Oct 20 2007
   

       Okay, let's go.   

       Are we not men?
—Ian Tindale, Oct 20 2007
   

       feed the sparrows, who cares what gender YOU are.   

       voting plus eventually for the feeding idea anyway.
—po, Oct 20 2007
   

       Mr Tindale having a Devo moment I see.

I like the idea as written.
—DrBob, Oct 22 2007
   

       //If they evolved into boxes they could be called Squarrels.//   

       *trying to contain laughter*
—k_sra, Oct 22 2007
   

       The birds Hitchcocking around your patio windows aren't alarming enough?
—Noexit, Oct 22 2007
   


 

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