I'm at my wits end!!!

[JOHNNY QUEST]

 I have been working so much that I can't play as much as I would like.. I come home and sit on the porch and have a beer and a smoke.. I noticed this pair of Red headed woodpeckers (which are rare here) make a hole in the guys tree neXt door.. It was cool.. Enter the Yellow beaked nest raiders... I have 5 starling laying dead over the last couple days.. They try to enter the hole and fight with the little female woodpecker.. I drop em at 34 yards with 1 shotfrom my whisper.. Its a deadly accurate gun as you guys know.. This is stickin it out the front door and making a shot over the neighbours cars and into a bird backed by a tree trunk... every bird was killed 1 shot Theres a pile of bodies there now and I can't protect them much longer... My work is days and nights, 2 shifts.. She has held out preaty well but disaster to her eggs or babies are inevitable.... I'm doing what I can.

couple days dead!!!!

http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p5/GULFCOASTRODS/bubba%20keg/woodpecker001.jpg

couple fresh dead..

http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p5/GULFCOASTRODS/bubba%20keg/woodpecker002.jpg

home..

http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p5/GULFCOASTRODS/bubba%20keg/woodpecker003.jpg

YELLOW BASTAGES

[grt56]

Great shooting and pics. I have read your adventures before and have enjoyed them much. Heck you even inspired me to purchase a .25 preowned Lonestar that may arrive in the next few days.

I noticed your night vision kit, do you only use it at night and remove /add another scope? If it is night time only what is the best bway to site in ?

Regards and keep shooting,

Gary

[djmyers]

That's crazy they are trying to get to that wood pecker so hard. Great job holding them off and good pics.

[dk1677]

Good job!

[longislandhunter]

Good shootin and good job buddy.   Great pics.  

Jeff

[TheKnot]

Try covering the hole if you can make it small enough so only the little woody can get in . even if it's just nailing some wood over it just a thought maybe knot the best . But good work while you where on the job

[shadow]

It's good to see you getting some critters bro, no don't work to hard and shoot more hehe. Ed

[Mebits]

THAT is why I want every one of those bastages eradicated from N. America.

Maybe a nest box trap will help?

[Mebits]

http://www.chuckspurplemartinpage.com/startrap.htm

There are lots out there, but the best I've seen is a PVC pipe with a 90' smooth bend, painted black, screwed with a flange to a board with a 2.5" hole in it and a perch on front. Box it all in and run the PVC down to a wire box. Strap it to a fence post or similar and collect your birds out of the wire cage as they appear.

[jake]

good shooting randall! im sure the woodpeckers really appreciate it too! lol

[DaddyBain]

As I read it 100 Starlings were released in central Park in 1890 and they now estimate they are unstoppable,  I am all for killing non indigenous species that give our native species such a hard time trying to survive, Good Job keeping the invaders pushed back, I got into airguns just recently for the basically the same purpose to push back the invading species harassing the native birds as well as they are vandalizing my garden,

And it is so much fun being a sniper for the greater good, begone bad birds

[atchman2]

Great shooting with that Whisper!  I know some folks don't like them, but mine is so accurate it almost isn't any fun to shoot.  Almost no recoil, cocks like a breeze, heck even my daughter and wife love it!    

Dang just took a better look at your last picture.  You are lucky it is just Starlings that want that tree.  That looks like a prime raccoon target!  

Death to Starlings!  Death to egg stealing, bird eating raccoons!

[Checco]

Great job protecting the peckers.
Maybe you can get the other half to cover while you are gone.