B-B guns & English Sparrows

[gitano]

getting out and "seeing" is enough

If you have a Hunter's eye, "getting out and seeing" IS hunting.

Paul

[Fieldmor77]

I did notice on my recent outback trip that the House Sparrows were alive and well in the smaller regional towns i passed through, it seems that there numbers have only declined in the big citys.
As for the indian mynas, it's as if my yard is a no fly zone, and i suspect that my two resident Magpies may have a hand in that as well, the Mynas have a distinct call which sends me  into "action stations" mode, they roost at night in large groups, and late one afternoon recently a group of eleven birds settled in the pines up the back, but by the time i unlocked the safe and got the airgun out they had moved on.

[gitano]

the Mynas have a distinct call which sends me into "action stations" mode,

Paul

[Jorge in Oz]

You should start a 'feeding program' for them Fieldmor77. Get them to start coming in to regular food, then 'lower the boom' on them.
 
I am impressed to hear that Australia has essentially "won the war" against house sparrows. It's tough to get rid of "exotics" once they are established.
 
With precious few exceptions, I have a real bad attitude toward free-ranging (feral) "exotics".
 
Paul

Not in Victoria they are a pest the sparrows but I'm on my way down toput a dint in the population. Starlings are a problem also.