I do not like starlings.
What I found for trapping but never tried.
birdgard.com
Showed that to my dad. He just shook his head. Pa just
shoots them. He's further in the country. Sometimes he
props the dead ones on sticks like the moles he catches and
traps (getting quite effective), sort of voodoo signs, but
that doesn't help, they ravage currants bullberries and cherries. He makes me laugh.
So I tried looking them up. I remember recipes for them,
but did not look any length but I found this:
STARLINGS FALL OUT OF THE SKY
Late October, 1998. Tacoma, Washington. About 300 starlings
dropped out of the sky on this date. Neither poison nor
disease was the cause. The birds all suffered crunched
chests and blood clots in hearts and lungs. Since starlings
fly in tight formations, some speculated they had smashed
into the side of a large truck (?), or perhaps a wind gust
had thrown them to earth violently.
(Anonymous; "Bird Deaths Still Mystery," Houston Chronicle,
October 31, 1998. Cr. D. Phelps. Also: Anonymous; "300 Starlings Drop out of Sky Dead," Scranton Times, October 31, 1998. Cr. M. Piechota.)
Comment. A much greater avian catastrophe took place near
Worthington, Minnesota, March 13-14, 1904. After a storm,
dead and dying Lapland Longspurs were strewn over a wide
area. A scientist from the Minnesota Natural History Survey
marked off squares in the snow covering two frozen lakes
and began counting and counting and counting. On the lakes
alone, 750,000 Lapland Longspurs lay dead. It was estimated
that 1,500,000 died just in the area around Worthington.
The injuries of the longspurs were much like those suffered
by the starlings. (Details in our latest catalog: Biological Anomalies: Birds)
Boy,that would be nice. I just read one of those Australian
sites about starlings appearing there somewhere and the need to quickly kill them before they spread.
I gave up on newspapers. I complained. I talked. Forget it.
Much better on-line, TV and buy,borrow the sales day
(usually Wed.) I have IBD mailed to me cause that was a different carrier who would throw it
on the ground even though there was a tube for papers.
Sometimes she would not show up for a couple of days.
I went to one of those investment seminars where Bill O'Neil
spoke and gave a rather eloquent high-brow portrayal of how to use the information and when done, asked for questions and comments.
Lot of hands went up and almost all of them, to his dismay, was about not receiving the paper.
LOL! They get what they deserve. Should of placed it under the shrubs. |
