Robin's

[bravo]

I used to lay in my camo and do my best to thin our starlings. They were all I was allowed to shoot. My dad used to target shoot at an abandoned gravel pit, I’d wander with a bb pistol shooting those big bastard grasshoppers. I was probably a better shot with a handgun at 8 than I am now.

 

[scrotcaster]

Magpies were the prize in our yard.. they are some cagy birds.

 

[Jiffy]

I used to call male English sparrows “buck birds”. They were also a trophy.

 

[Rowdie]

In town Blue Jays and woodpeckers would be trophies, and by the river fishing redwing black birds were.

 

[Jiffy]

Yellow headed blackbirds were worth more than redwing.

 

[Rowdie]

Yellow headed blackbirds were worth more than redwing.

Ya, I never seen any in my area growing up. Then about 15 years ago they were everywhere, now I don't see them much anymore.

 

[Motohunter]

 

[Motohunter]

I got these levers a few years back when we moved my grandma. I would imagine they could tell quite the stories.

 

[Davey Crockett]

We have had two in the yard all winter. I would pour water in the sump pump hole and pump it outside to give them fresh water all winter. It can be -10 below and there in the water taking baths.

That thaw a while back created a little puddle in the yard and the pair of magpies were their glory. They would take a bath and then dig down into the snow and take a snow bath and repeat . I didn't stick around and watch but know they both did it at least twice .

I had one like the bottom one.. I had a some cousins from Cali that would visit , for some reason they always played rough. I remember one grabbed me and and put me in an arm lock , later I pointed to the finger smasher on the daisy and said put your finger there and pull the trigger. I always kept it oiled and clean and it smacked him so hard that he bled and took off running for his grandmas house a mile away. We followed him with the car but he wouldnt stop so we followed him home. I got ass chewins from all directions.

 

[bucksnbears]

Yellow headed blackbirds were worth more than redwing.

Yep.
Many yellow heads were taken at the elevator in Bowden.

 

[Pheasant 54]

Ya, I never seen any in my area growing up. Then about 15 years ago they were everywhere, now I don't see them much anymore.

Same here, however last spring we must have seen 100 of them at the Hazelton boat ramp and I am probably low in my number