My birds are tougher then your birds....

[Mebits]

Roger that, atch!

I would love a softer version of the Crow Mag. I'm pretty sure that more instant drops and kills would result.

[atchman2]

Well you could go to Wally World and for less than $3 get a tin of nice soft cheap Daisy Wadcutters!  I've shot them okay out of the 350 at short range.  My stupid Air Hawk loves them!  It is the only pellet that will shoot accurately out of it!

[airiscool]

Randy, Mark,
These Jumbos are so soft I can easily pinch the skirts compleatly closed with using just two finger tips. Superdomes, Super hollow points, Preditors, I have to use plers to pinch them as closed.  

Just wacked another Starling.
It was off to the right of the feeder in a compost pile. Can't get the gun over far enough from the window to reach it, so I went to the Shed door. Carefully eased around the door jam and looked.

Only it's  head was above the pile as it was bobbing up and down rooting/eating.  When it's head was down, I brought the gun up, leaned against the door jam, put the cross hairs on it and waited. It was slowly climbing the back side of the compost pile headed straight toward me. When it got on top and moved into a good sized gap in the branches of a bush, it gave me a left quartering brest shot. Squeezed off another Jumbo and saw the Starling rolled over backwards, instantly get up and strugle to fly. It didn't know where the shot came from because it flew toward me and past the shed to my left - only able to get a few feet off the ground. I thought for sure this one's going down.

I carefully leaned the gun up in a corner and went around the shed for a look. No Starling to be seen. I continued on around that side of the house looking everywhere, including in the Neighbor's yard. Still nothing.

A little while later I was looking out a kitchen window on that side of the house to see if it was visable and saw  a bunch of Sparrows zoom by the window from a sticker bush they hide out in just outside. I looked at the bush and there on top was the Cooper Hawk waving around on the top branches and  looking after the departing Sparrows. It took off after the Sparrows and I couldn't believe how fast it could manuever around trees in the neighbor's yard. It was like watching a large Bat !!!!! They all flew off so fast I couldn't see if the Coopers caught any of the Sparrows.

Anyway, I'm doing my best to thin out the Starling mob, but don't expect to see any wack 'em- n- stack 'em pictues from here.

Paul.

[dk1677]

Think the hawk is your clean up hitter?

[dk1677]

Just had a Coopers Hawk fly in! I was watching the Nuthatches , Finches , Chickadees around the feeder and all of a sudden they all took off and I saw the hawk fly in, watched it land on a low tree branch and grabbed the binoculars to get a good look , I went to get a  camera  but he was gone. First year I have spent time really bird watching  and never knew there were so many hawks around

[airiscool]

We're not only seeing more Hawks in town this year, but also alot more out of town. More this past year than ever before.

Saturday, the Girlfriend, (who loves the outdoors even more than I do) and I did one of our weekend afternoon "Critter drives". We go for a drive in the surounding country back roads sight-seeing and looking for critters. I keep a log book in the van and she writes down when and how many of what we've seen. Counted 102 deer out in pastures (hardly any snow cover here). About two dozen Turkeys. But the best part was we saw a Red Tail Hawk in it's nest, up about 30 feet in a tree that was only about 50 feet off the road. We stopped and watched it until it flew off.

She lives near Saratoga Springs and says she's been seeing alot of large Hawks while driving along the NY State Northway (Interstate 87).  

Maybe global warming aint such a bad thing afterall

Paul.

[jake]

wow, i knew they were tough but not that tough LOl atleast you got him!