A Windsor, Ont. couple is upset after having to remove five bird feeders from their front yard or face penalty.
Robert and Dawna Lajoie say in this time of inflation and COVID, they enjoy watching the birds at their living room window from their west Windsor home on Matchette Road.
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Absolutely ridiculous!
Birds matter!!! Someone needs to accidentally scatter bird seed in the neighbour’s yard as they walk by that house.
Stupid neighbour should move to Russia and see life as it could be after all the bird feeders have been “liberated”
It’s ridiculous 😡neighbors need to mind their own business
I found a bird feeder that doesn’t make a mess, I would like to buy it for this couple and send it to them. Can you help make that happen?
Yes but have you found birds that don’t s#$t everywhere.
I can get you a feeder like that no problem. What’s it worth to you?
I’d reach out to the news station
I love watching the birds at my feeders. I would be very upset. Shame on those neighbors that complained, there are more important things in life to worry about.
@hockey addict 🤦🏽♂️ tool
@hockey addict we are nit talking bald eagles here they are song birds and other small birds I have them in my yd all the time and there is no mess
@Miss F Agreed
The coward neighbours hide in their houses… sickening…
Wow they have very bored neighbour’s that need to find something else to do. Unbelievable!
I think this lovely elderly couple should turn their house into a music studio.
Heavy medal cd about a half hr every morning about one ir two for a week or so on that neighborhoods side of the house should do it. I know it worked for me
YES nice and loud lol
take muffler off mower
some peoples children… no one knows how to MYOB anymore ….
wicked spiteful neighbours to complain and the city officials are no better
I agree Carolyn. I think they’ll find a way to feed.
Such bitter neighbours!😒
Build a natural garden in your backyard. Create natural space for birds. Natural habitat. And you’ll see them every morning like we do.
I love watching the birds around my house and we should all grab bird feeders and send it to them and put them all over the area if you don’t love mother nature’s children then move who ever filed a complaint on theses home owners🇨🇦🇺🇲🇬🇧🇲🇽🐦🦆🦋🐓
This is terrible. This nice couple are doing nothing wrong. It’s their property anyhow. By-laws like this take the happiness out of life.
Agreed Stephen! Because they’re property owners they may be able to take action legally to defend their rights
Ripple effect will follow. These birds have probably been feeding here for a long time and have nested nearby. Now their food source is gone. Although I never fed my birds I had a perfect ecosystem in my back yard and so many birds nested in it but the neighbourhood cats slowly destroyed my bird population (and crapped in my flower beds).
Their food source is not gone, snacks maybe, but not their main diet. Birds been feeding themselves long before bird feeders were invented and was a thing.
Time to become the worst neighbor possible within the law.
This is ridiculous, this couple should put up a privacy fence and feed as they wish! Also, it is not illegal to feed stray cats so if they want to leave a little dry cat food they also can do that!! Legally, as homeowners, there’s alot that they CAN do. These are not renters. We all need to be mindful about nature and it’s value.
There’s always some scumbag neighbor who complains. Why is it that the nasty neighbor gets their way and the bird person does not? Can you imagine the coward that calls up the city to complain about some one feeding birds?!?
They can legally feed in their back yard. I’d put up a fence in back and feed there. So sorry they have such awful neighbors.