What variety of swallows do you have? Barn or cliff swallows? Do they build mud nests?
Keep on 'em David!
I don't get as many sparrows as I used to, thinned them out big time, but I still get a lot of starlings, the problem is they beat it as soon as I touch the window to open it as they are on to me. Most of the ones I get a shot at are way out back in the grass bug hunting.
Quote from: tracker1955 on May 24, 2021, 10:44:13 PMI don't get as many sparrows as I used to, thinned them out big time, but I still get a lot of starlings, the problem is they beat it as soon as I touch the window to open it as they are on to me. Most of the ones I get a shot at are way out back in the grass bug hunting.During the breeding season, when S&S are coming around trying to use the martin and bluebird houses, I get the redneck woman blind set up and ready before they show up. The starlings (especially) are very predictable with regard to the time of day they come around. Here, it is between 0900 and 1000, then occasionally, there will be one or two come around right before sundown. I open the window, get my gun out and convenient, and open the pellet tin, so that when they show up, they won't likely have any idea that anything is happening inside the house.
They’ve smarter than we often give credit to, especially if some of their buddies have already fallen. I’ve got three I need to clean up some time today that I shot this morning. Maybe when it cools down and I go out to water the garden.