I’ve had a similar experience with house sparrows and share this person’s philosophy on the proper means of their removal.
I also don’t like Canada geese in the yard (and that’s all I’m going to say about that, except today’s air rifle isn’t the Daisy you may have grown up with). Watch
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Squirrels and Flickers and that’s all I’m going to say about that
Kinda’ bummed Dr. Strangelove didn’t narrate.
Am I the only one who immediately made the analogy between this video and Section 8 government housing?
The housing was put up to give a leg-up to a useful and wanted type of bird while in the meantime a destructive and invasive species co opted what we built for themselves.
Did he do the liberal thing and throw up his hands and remove the birdhouse or did he put up a bunch of bird houses hoping that he could help just a few of the right kinds of birds while 90% of the remaining bird housed were used by vermin that were breeding out of control?
No, he culled the undeserving, undesirable, and invasive species from the landscape and made the space better for everyone.
My Air Arms S510 FAC has had a noticeable effect on our damaging squirrel population. Quiet and extremely accurate. You’re right Fur. Air guns aren’t the same as when we were kids.
First off I LOVE birding. We have a birdbath/feeder off the kitchen window and have been to many bird sanctuaries, we live near one.
The Blue Jays’ dominate the ‘waterhole’/feeder when they show up.
The Cardinals show up and doth protest.
The Doves scare everyone!
The Catbirds and Cowbirds pick up the scraps.
The Grackles show up like a gang.
The Squirrels have the whole shebang figured out.
The Sparrows get whatever they can, being smaller than everyone else.
The Finches and Black Caps…quick in and out.
But IF you don’t build it, a competitive condo, a birdhouse, a feeder, a birdbath, they will not come to begin with. What do you want to get out of doing any of the above? ATTRACTING BIRDS!!!
I hope that guy felt proud of himself…’when it’s my
land and its my birds harumpf I take it personal” he said?
WHO’s effing birds are his to begin with?
Starlings are invasive as well:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Schieffelin
Shall we kill them all??
Has the Starling been in North America longer or the House Sparrow has? Who gets shot first?
Don’t know.
That was not even hunting, that was ‘Social Engineering’ by airgun.
Not good!
What bird is badass enough to kill a House Sparrow?
Woodpecker?
Attract those birds into the cycle.
That guy should stick to attracting BATS.
NEIN! Herr. Ghost. The decision to cull the barbaric species of House Sparrows to allow birds of a more pure bloodline to thrive cannot be DENIED!
: pounds right arm:
No. The humane thing to do would be to assemble a TEAM of highly trained air soft ASSASINS… to take the fight to the house sparrows own territory. YES MEIN FUHRER….
I mean of course we’re all enthusiastic about implementing a final…..SOLUTION to the entire house sparrow questions.
Ja?
:inhales from cigarette holder:
Aaron Wins!
Haha! This very video has been popping up in my “recommended videos” for some time. I have a lot of birds around the property. I find that the right mix of food and separate feeding stations seem to keep everyone and me happy.
I primarily feed finches, cardinals, tit mouses and chickadees of the back deck. They get mostly safflower because the grackles and such don’t like safflower. Now and then I’ll mix in some black sunflower oil.
Out in front, where I can put a feeder away from the tree line, I have a platform feeder. It is on a greased pole. Here I place black oil sunflower, shelled and unshelled peanuts. This is where the woodpeckers (downy, hairy, yellow belly, etc) hang out along with the nuthatches and blue jays. The blue jays don’t take over, everyone seems to get along.
I also have what I believe to be a great horned owl living in the forest. He/she/they start their screeching about 9pm and it goes on all night. In the early mornings I’ve been able to lay eyes on it a couple of times, but it is difficult to distinguish as it rips through the trees.