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 Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 3:01 pm |
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| toadmyster223 |
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They're all so confused. Anywhere that actually has a patch of grass is just congregating birds. I've shot 3 starlings, a dove, a sparrow, and a crow so far. I shoveled off a spot out in the yard and put some bread down, and I should have a good afternoon. Its funny how starlings are drawn to anything white or whitish laying in the yard. Last week I blew up a leftover Easter lamb-shaped pound cake with something like an M-80 (It was a cracker bomb, if anyone is familiar). It scattered minuscule dots of cake everywhere for 40 feet, and against the base of a tree it was near. All week, starlings were in the yard picking up those tiny white pieces of cake.
They must see snow differently, because they don't seem to mind it really. Not completely migratory, after all. |
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| Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 5:15 pm |
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| grizzlyadams |
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| i ahve to agree. i'm in nys. i have shot 17 starlings today already! almost 2 more hours of light to go! |
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| Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 5:35 pm |
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| toadmyster223 |
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| What are you shooting? I took mine with my Gamo Viper...shot that sparrow at about 8 paces, it was sort of gruesome :P |
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| Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 5:35 pm |
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| robert w |
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| i been shootin starlings daily for the last 2 months and seems for every 1 killed 5 come to his funeral and dont go home ... nasty birds |
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| Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 5:39 pm |
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| toadmyster223 |
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I don't have THAT many where I live, I wish I did. I live right outside the main metropolitan (if you'd call it that) area, and sometimes some pigeons pass through in the morning, I wish I more of those to shoot too, haha. Around here I'm lucky to get 5 starlings in a day. They used to be a lot more plentiful, but over the last 12 years of living here all the birds and squirrels really seem to have wisened up, and practice extreme caution...
Of course, we had to put our old tomcat down, and the rabbit population is BOOMING this year  |
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| Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 8:43 pm |
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| toadmyster223 wrote: |
| I don't have THAT many where I live, I wish I did. |
Me too. I like cleaning them out. Nasty things. |
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| Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 8:32 am |
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| grizzlyadams |
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| my rws34 in 177. today i'm gonna use the gamo cfx. |
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