From Dave Bowie
I was able to photograph this blue-gray gnatcatcher harassing a barred owl !!
this post was submitted on 17 Sep 2025
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It sounds like they would enjoy the skeeters. Everything I looked up says they like small insects, insect eggs, and spiders.
I think this theory is worth trying out.
i'm just concerned this would be environmental terrorism or something. like that one lady and her stink flower down in the bay area
One man's eco terrorism is another man's eco liberation...
Just mix in an amount of local bird species in your avian army to throw them off the trail.
Maybe some bats, get patrols out 24/7. 🤔
oh it's a crime to fuck with the bats here. one crime at a time dude
Environmental terrorism against swarms of mosquitos . . . has been approved.
(Okay not really but heck if some skeetercatchers wanna shack up over here, I’m buyin’.)
so every time we'd go camping in the boy scouts, we'd catch a crane fly (we call em skeeter eaters or skeeter bombers out here) and let it loose in our tent after setting up. that way, if a mosquito got in, the skeeter eater would feast before the skeeter feasted on us. it was surprisingly effective. so like, maybe i should just get into breeding crane flies and no one will know
Genius. Do it!