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I had thousands of them over my goose spread and in a moment of boredom I shot randomly up in the sky and six dropped all around me. Felt guilty and that I should bake them in a pie or something but they were flaring the geese.
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them fuggers will pull out a corn sprout to get the kernel too. they'll walk right down the row doing it. my dad hated those things and i used to sit up in my bedroom window with the old crosman 160 playing sniper in the garden. Sounds fun to me!
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Jeeetem? That's Texan for did you eat them?
I would now as I have had luscious song bird catchatorie and other odd dishes from unlikely sources.
In the rice fields south of here they have to set up CO2 canons to keep those Btards away.
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Gadfry
And I thought I had grackle issues in the past.
Some spelling errors can be corrected by a vowel movement.
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Grackles, natures synonym to learoy, djs, northman, nebassman....
I would set the timer to 30 min before dark.
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Pick up some yellow acorns the next time they come on sale. They work a little better. 
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Looks like someone needs a cat.
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I wonder how many of them ole Tom Knapp, may he RIP, could have got with that 9 shot Mosseberg pump 12 ga he used to shoot his exhibitions with?
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We used to have several feral cats around the feeder hunting, but they have mostly disappeared.
John Knapp told me that he was a much better shot than brother Tom.
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I see chicken pot pie.
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time.
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Dang...
I'm not familiar with the bird in the picture, what are they? Common Grackles.
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Good Lord! Thats funny!!.....Hb
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Call Tom Knapp and Benelli.
From a life long birder - they appear to be Common Grackles.
Edit: I didn't know that Tom Knapp died, I remember seeing his exhibition when I was a kid.
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Tom Knapp did a lot for the Benelli brand. He could shoot a 22 rifle also.
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A lot of folks eat those birds. You must not have many Cajuns or Black people around.
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A lot of folks eat those birds. You must not have many Cajuns or Black people around. Best thing to happen to us was some of the coonA$$es that moved in after Katrina. Food around here improved. Tom Knapp has passed away. John lives on Horse Thief Creek out of Roundup, Montana.
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Great picture. It does look like a target rich environment however for a kid with a pellet gun. Mom wanted a cat, so to make the best of the situation we never bought that little varmint any cat food because my .20 Sheridan and I kept her fed with breast of blackbird every day. Visiting conservationists to the house liked seeing the bird feeder outside my bedroom window. Little did they know.
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Guess what! Just checked my game camera and they came back again!
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