Starlings 2023

[bwframe]

Seems to be a lot more this year than in years past? They also seem way less wary?

Maybe it's the time of the season, mating, etc?

I've dropped a dozen with the air rifles in the last week. Six last evening out of the same tree.

 

[cg21]

Seems to be a lot more this year than in years past? They also seem way less wary?

Maybe it's the time of the season, mating, etc?

I've dropped a dozen with the air rifles in the last week. Six last evening out of the same tree.

I prefer winter starling hunting my high score is 4 from one shell so far.

 

[snapping turtle]

I am seeing much fewer birds in general. Starling in the pines where they normally nest are currently at zero.
My cars are happy about those dive bombers being gone.

We do have a mocking bird or three making night calls. Cardnals and robins are in normal numbers. Nuthatches not so much. Blue jays seem normal. Red wing blackbirds no so much.

 

[bwframe]

I think all the birds are here. I got all of them that you don't, including hawks, owls and buzzards.