Backyard bird watching

[Raven]

be cool if it was miniaturized
you aim the scope on the PC
click the mouse and a little soldier
next to the Bird feeder caps the squirrel

[2na]

Johnny, get a 4x scope and zero it in on the range/distance your birdfeeders are away. Pellets will drop 3-4" in 100', so if you are shooting at 20' and zero'd at 100' you'll shoot under every time. If you can get proficient enough to pass the Raven test you are there. I aim between the eye and the ear, but a straight on shot up the nose will also do. I don't want to see them suffer, but I don't ever want to see them again. My friendly neighborhood fox does the cleanup work for me.

Snow buntings Bobby - very good! Mark it up. Straight white or mottled?

[JohnnyD]

Originally Posted by PRBuzz

This is now f'''ing WAR! Those damn furry tailed rats not only learned to remove the tops of the feeders, now they stole them! They are no where to be seen. I'm done messing with them and getting one of these:

I hoed a 1200fps pellet rifle off of Sweetwater. Now that the ice has melted off the trees, they've come out of their holes. Tomorrow begin my campaign of shooting every single one of them that enters the area I've declared safe to shoot towards.

Just missed one yesterday. I wonder what a pellet zipping by faster than the speed of sound actually sounds like.

[justplugit]

Originally Posted by JohnnyD

Tomorrow begin my campaign of shooting every single one of them that enters the area I've declared safe to shoot towards.

JD, outside the safety zone a paint gun loaded with water balls is a lot
of fun.

I've been finding by loading the suet feeders with the container still on,
it slows them down as they can only get at one side. Doesn't interfere
with the birds getting at it.

[spence]

Originally Posted by PRBuzz

This is now f'''ing WAR! Those damn furry tailed rats not only learned to remove the tops of the feeders, now they stole them! They are no where to be seen. I'm done messing with them and getting one of these:

The best squirrel proof feeder I've seen has the perch weighted so it closes the feed stations when weight it put on it. Not sure of the brand but my parents swear by them.

I just use regular feeders but only put out safflower. They won't eat it...

-spence

[ProfessorM]

Originally Posted by spence

The best squirrel proof feeder I've seen has the perch weighted so it closes the feed stations when weight it put on it. Not sure of the brand but my parents swear by them.

I just use regular feeders but only put out safflower. They won't eat it...

-spence

yup. I use 2 I bought years ago. Not cheap but do the trick and i figure I have saved that in seed since I bought them. They learn fast and don't even bother them any more.

here is the kind i have , although I did not pay that much. more like 40 but it was probably 15 years ago. Heavy duty and well made

http://www.bird-house-bath.com/d/Her...-Original.html


here is a good one too


http://www.birdwatching-bliss.com/sq...FUlN4AodLWX2IA

[PRBuzz]

BB's and snow (ice) balls! They both work and I have about the same hit percentage (hits/attempts). I think I need Roger Clemens fast ball!

[FishermanTim]

Snowball implanted with icicles, sort of a "dissapearing" mace that you throw.

"Gee honey, I have no idea how the squirrel died, but its body is riddled with holes. Does anyone in the area have a machine gun?
Either that or alien experimentation!"

Just remember Jimbo (from South Park) and his way around all those "pesky environmental laws" and yell "They're coming straight for me" before you blast them away!

[Raven]

at 100' feet with a scope
you can use a dime to trace circles
on a card board box - don't draw silly squirrel outlines!
you aim for the eye- body shots suck- too bloody
..............they are to strong for that

[saltfly]

Lots of Bluebirds especially when the snow begins and ends.I walk my dogs in the wellfield down the street and had 2-5 snow buntings for 4 mornings feeding on seed pods in the open field next to the water treatment plant.i've been told they are kind of rare this far south.

[PRBuzz]

Buzz 1
Squirrels 0

Does red snow distract other squirrels?

[PRBuzz]

Buzz 2
Squirrels 0

[FormerUser]

A good quality pellet gun does the trick and it puts food on the table at the same time.My old RWS 48 and Beeman R1 have decimated the squirrel population,but alas with the times we live and the neighborhood I recide in its no longer an option...to bad.

[striperman36]

Originally Posted by PRBuzz

Buzz 2
Squirrels 0

gun or cutter high inside?

[justplugit]

P. those are the best on the market. A few find there way around the Duncraft
and if they can't get to the seed the li'l bastards chew the wooden perch
in half.

I have never seen a squirrel get anything out of the Brome and there's
nothing they can chew or wreck.

[ProfessorM]

just spotted a small hawk in the tree next to the feeders. I tried to get as good a look as possible but my binoc's are in the truck and my eyesight stinks and getting to be dusk almost.. . Looking in the book could be a Coopers hawk or sharp spinned. Wish I had read book first as the tails are different but I don't remember. Cool bird though.

[FormerUser]

Originally Posted by ProfessorM

just spotted a small hawk in the tree next to the feeders. I tried to get as good a look as possible but my binoc's are in the truck and my eyesight stinks and getting to be dusk almost.. . Looking in the book could be a Coopers hawk or sharp spinned. Wish I had read book first as the tails are different but I don't remember. Cool bird though.

The Sharpie is the more prevalent of the two locally.The two are very similar and very hard to distinguish from one another.On that assumption I assume the one that visits my yard is a Sharpie.

[PRBuzz]

Originally Posted by basswipe

The Sharpie is the more prevalent of the two locally.The two are very similar and very hard to distinguish from one another.On that assumption I assume the one that visits my yard is a Sharpie.

My sharpie came and visited for about 2 min yesterday afternoon. Just walked around the highest pile of snow looking for something.....of course all the birds were long gone. Wanted to run and get the camera but I enjoyed just watching too much. I also assumed he'd be gone by time I got back.

If he came back today he could have had squirrel meat! Something did, probably a feral cat.

[PRBuzz]

Any of these furry tailed rats that dare stand and laugh at me from 10' away while I'm holding a WSD (weapon of squirrel destruction) deserves a BB right between the eyes!

[striperman36]

Originally Posted by PRBuzz

BB right between the eyes!

send out the stretcher!!

You're having too much fun on the deck or is there a sniper position on a bar stool?

[Raven]

i am building owl boxes this year

[justplugit]

Rav,put some bat boxes up too if you have the place,
as you know they are on the decline because of some kind of diease.

[justplugit]

Anybody ever try those exterior ultrsonic sound devices that
are supposed to repel squirrels, cats and even deer within a 30 ft
radious?

[JohnnyD]

Took one out this morning. Fell out of the tree into about 3' of snow. Won't see him until May.

[PRBuzz]

Originally Posted by JohnnyD

Took one out this morning. Fell out of the tree into about 3' of snow. Won't see him until May.

Probably won't see him ever, scavengers will get it first! Way to go, only an infinite number more to send to their graves!

[striperman36]

I had issues with squirrels and raccoons right up the street from Slip

After taking out 63 squirrels, and fortunately rabies got the raccoons. I went with the Audobon feeder pole shield.

I've never had problem since as long as I mounted the shield per instructions.

Now if I could keep the bastards out of my birdhouses. I'm putting sheet metal inserts in the entry holes this year.

[justplugit]

Originally Posted by striperman36

I'm putting sheet metal inserts in the entry holes this year.

Try gluing on fender washers just the right size inisde diameter for the birds you want to attract on the ouside hole of your birdhouse.

[2na]

PR, I saw something on the news about that last night. They said that the robins we have around here now are northern robins coming south for the winter and that our robins were south in the Carolinas, Georgia & Florida. They said that when our robins get back you'll know because they'll be thin from the flight back north. Let's see -

[JohnnyD]

Originally Posted by PRBuzz

Probably won't see him ever, scavengers will get it first! Way to go, only an infinite number more to send to their graves!

I'll be curious. He fell in the middle of nowhere so the tracks and digging will be obvious. Should have had at least a couple more but I suck.

[2na]

Johnny, the tail fur makes nice teasers - go dig it out!