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Offline Kain

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Hate starlings?
« on: May 30, 2011, 12:49:37 AM »
Funny video on birdwatching with a pellet rifle scope with some nice starling kill shots.

Bird Watching "Airgun Style" - Episode 1
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Re: Hate starlings?
« Reply #1 on: May 30, 2011, 01:17:41 AM »
Good post. I hate them with a passion and have shot many. They love my garden and even bomb my dogs. So when I have a chance, they die  :chuckle: .
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Re: Hate starlings?
« Reply #2 on: May 30, 2011, 07:40:03 AM »
What a funny video!

Keeping starlings out of the eaves of my house is a major problem for me, and its said they continue to add to the size of the nest their entire lifespan...sad for homeowners!

I think if every hunter in the US started hunting starlings, we still couldn't get them under control.
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Re: Hate starlings?
« Reply #3 on: May 30, 2011, 08:12:10 AM »
Same problem here with starlings in the eaves.  PathfinderJR has been waging war on them all weekend.  killed two yesterday.  Funny, they know him now.  My wife goes out into the yard and they're everywhere.  JR goes out there (pellet gun or not) and they vacate.  He has several hide sites set up around the property, but they are starting to figure those out too....
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Re: Hate starlings?
« Reply #4 on: May 30, 2011, 09:01:07 AM »
Got to spend a summer on an Uncles farm in Eastern Canada.  After dinner he'd take me out in the yard with a pitcher of iced tea and two .22 cal pellet guns.  We'd shoot starlings till it got dark.   He had some words for them I wont repeat here.. :chuckle:
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Re: Hate starlings?
« Reply #5 on: May 30, 2011, 09:25:32 AM »
That guy is hilarious!  He also put a lot of work into his video.  Pretty cool set up he has there.
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Re: Hate starlings?
« Reply #6 on: May 30, 2011, 09:40:18 AM »
Grew up shooting them with a BB gun.
I also remember when I was a kid, they used to have large apple boxes out in the fields near the airport (SeaTac) with chain link fence over the top, the birds would land on top, drop inside for a snack... could not fly out again.
They would kill them by the thousands that way, and still barely made a dent.
wonder what happened to that... :dunno:
 
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Re: Hate starlings?
« Reply #7 on: May 30, 2011, 09:59:27 AM »
Got one this morning in my back yard with my pellet gun.  Orchardists in my area used to build traps out of wire and bait them in by the hundreds.  Didn't seem to hurt the populations any.  They are extremely intelligent, and loyal to their mates.  Last year a family of them landed in my yard.  I winged the adult female.  The male flew off but the confused chicks stayed to be picked off.  The female ran under a bush and kept calling until the male came back, and I picked him off and finished off the female.  Scratch one whole Starling family.
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Re: Hate starlings?
« Reply #8 on: May 30, 2011, 11:44:55 AM »
Quote from: STIKNSTRINGBOW on May 30, 2011, 09:40:18 AM
Grew up shooting them with a BB gun.
I also remember when I was a kid, they used to have large apple boxes out in the fields near the airport (SeaTac) with chain link fence over the top, the birds would land on top, drop inside for a snack... could not fly out again.
They would kill them by the thousands that way, and still barely made a dent.
wonder what happened to that... :dunno:


Quote from: Heredoggydoggy on May 30, 2011, 09:59:27 AM
  Orchardists in my area used to build traps out of wire and bait them in by the hundreds. 


They got rid of both traps because they were attracting other birds as well. Robins were affected to a major extent.

Doggy I saw the frame of one the other day and looked like the orchardist was going to put more chicken wire on it and reuse it. I think they can be effective, but the problem was some put poison water in them for a quicker kill. By doing that they had no control over trying to release nontargeted species. A friends dad had one with a little door you could crawl in and release robins etc. He once released a small hawk.
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Re: Hate starlings?
« Reply #9 on: May 30, 2011, 01:17:09 PM »
That's so cool, I want his set up! 
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Re: Hate starlings?
« Reply #10 on: May 30, 2011, 01:45:15 PM »
Haha im shooting starlings now and just saw this post!

Im at 11 starlings down now!!
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Re: Hate starlings?
« Reply #11 on: May 30, 2011, 03:07:26 PM »
Now that is my kind of video!
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Re: Hate starlings?
« Reply #12 on: May 30, 2011, 04:25:58 PM »
I don't kill Robins, but I know people that do.  Especially cherry growers.  They hate them.  Robins go along a branch and take a bite out of every cherry they see.  Wouldn't be so bad if they just ate one cherry, but they ruin the whole crop.
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Re: Hate starlings?
« Reply #13 on: May 30, 2011, 05:03:53 PM »
I've shot 7 of them Black *censored*s today so far. :hunt2: I bet they've crapped two hundred times on my Boat,Truck & Car since yesterday. :bash:
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Re: Hate starlings?
« Reply #14 on: May 30, 2011, 05:11:29 PM »
This is a good time to be popping them.  The first hatch is just leaving the nest and following mom and dad around.
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