Wildlife Logic

We take care of rodent pest control for Mills Road Market… and they have really good sandwiches and food so we stopped by for lunch as we were in the area getting rid of rats from a residential account in the Thornton Park area of Orlando, FL.

As customer service is my religion, I asked the owner how things were going.

He said that we had done a good job on keeping rats & mice, cockroaches, ants and other pests out of his restaurant, and in fact he had recently passed a health inspection with flying colors, but there was one thing he was worried about, a strange looking bird with a very damaged beak was hanging around his patio tables and this “rat with wings” had gotten so comfortable with people, that it was becoming aggressive and was stealing food off the tables while the customers were having a meal.

Several people including the humane society, the bird lady and two other nuisance critter control/pest control companies had tried to get rid of this pest bird but were unsuccessful.

They had used mist nets (commonly used in bird control) hand nets, poison (something we rarely use) and various traps (ranging from rat traps to squirrel traps to raccoon traps) and the “rat with wings” just kept beating them at their own game.

We ordered a quesadilla and a falafel and sat down for lunch and sure enough, within a few minutes, a robin with a damaged beak (it looked like the rat with wings had been hit by a car and had broken its beak and the poor bird was reduced to only eating with its head at a weird angle) showed up and started being a bit of a pest. It was obvious that the bird was not doing well and I decided to try catching it by hand.

I borrowed some tortilla chips and used it as bait to lure our “rat with wings” closer and noticed that as it fed, it had to turn its head sideways which meant that for a split second, while the bird was pecking at the chip, it could not see much else so I knelt on the ground and used the bait to bring the bird closer and closer.

Finally, when the bird was about a foot away and was looking down at the bait, I swung both my hands closed around the body of the bird and caught him without hurting him in any way.

My customer and a few of his patrons were pretty impressed and we delivered the bird to the Bird Lady bird rescue in Maitland (by the way if you find an injured bird the Bird Lady bird rescue will help look at any of my websites such as critter911.com, rats911.com, squirrels911.com, raccoons911.com etc. Or search the bird lady on Google, yahoo, ask or live search for a link).

Any our “rat with wings” is in a good place and he will be well taken care of and our rodent and pest control customer has also signed up for an occasional humane bird repellant treatment.