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Folks have Purple Martin houses here to help with mosquitos. My friend shoots starlings from his Martin house with a pellet gun and the Martins don't even flinch.

Indiana does too, we have a crow season, coyote season and a bullfrog season.....for real??

Also as far as birds... Just certain ones may be taken.

Good shooting.
dave

Millions of tons, and millions of dollars are lost world wide because of pest birds and rodent.
Bird dropping build up can allow a fungus to grow that can be a hazard to humans.
I will shoot them any legal chance I get.

When I was a youngun I had a Benjaman(sp) .22 pellet rifle. I was

allowed to shoot pretty much anything but red birds. Of course I

messed up one day and shot a female red bird I very quickly

dunked it in some used motor oil . Instant black bird !

I think that is a neat video - one of the moct compelling things about it is that he DENOTES the types and DOES NOT shoot animals out of season or otherwise - that is fair and humane hunting if ever I saw it!


The cats seems to like it to!

IIRC, crow seasons were developed as a side effect of a treaty with Mexico, protecting other birds.
Mark

More power to you. I'm a purple martin landlord, too.

Starlings supposedly are tasty and were the same bird mentioned in nursery rhyme, "four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie." I've thought about trapping some, then fattening and preparing them according to the French manner of the ortolan bunting.



If it worked, it could transform one of America's nastiest pests into one of its tastiest gourmet treats.

Histoplamosis is a contracted by inhaling the spore of a fungus called Histoplasma Capsulatum....the spore is "fertilized" by the droppings of various birds....starlings and others....symptoms range from mild flu like to death...depends on the amount of spore breathed in....I contracted it during college...lost about 40 pounds and a few weeks of doing anything except eating and sleeping....took quite a while to get back to normal....large concentrations of birds make for lots of droppings and the potential for lots of spore....needless to say there is no love lost for me on vermin birds.....link below has "Histo" information....
http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/hi97146.html

Good info - I'm going to dig into the link right now.

Here he shows a little about his camera setup.

Missouri has a crow season too, and it's only 4 months long. We also can't hunt coyotes for about 6 weeks during the spring turkey season.

Good find, this guy is fantastic. He's got some serious coin wrapped up in his hobby, but he's also very serious about it.


For forty years figured I might've been the only person on earth who had eaten pigeons. I'm so relieved that what my Dad made me do (in the name of sportsmanship) is actually accepted practice. >grin<

Yeah this guy is good.

He seems to be "eat up" with Starlings the way most of us are eat up with Big-Game.

This one is pretty good on Starling behavior.

I shoot a RWS Model 48 that is nice but not nearly as nice as the OP.

I shot a boat load of starlings and english sparrows off my property and was pleasantly rewarded with gold finches, house sparrows and other song birds that filled the void.

Another good one. For an amateur, this guy has some of the best video footage I've seen in a while...

Thanks Whacker

I love killing crows with my bow.

Little bastids eat the walnuts, but for some reason they end up with lead poisoning.

Thanks, Deerwhacker...

This guy is clearly as much a birdwatcher as he is a hunter. Hmmm. Kinda reminds me of a lot of big game hunters I know!

I have to say, these videos are as fascinating to me, if not moreso, than most TV hunting shows. The videography is excellent, the "producer" clearly knows what he's talking about, and besides all that, there's fierce little "lions" in every video. The shot where the kitty growled at him when it picked up the dead starling cracked me right up!