Forget the house sparrows, and take out a few starlings!! :-)

Bob Mauritsen
rhm at ms.washington.edu


> We have gone the next step and try to make their lives short. My husband,
> Jerry has become quite adept at using a slingshort called a wrist rocket and
> can nail a house sparrow at about 20 feet. I am not so good, but can hit a
> squirrel on a good day.
> We also trap, with a "live" trap that I bought from the American Bluebird
> Association. this gets the males that sing for mates, and generally, if we
> get rid of the male, the females go elsewhere.
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> Name: Clarice Clark
> jbroadus at seanet.com
> 901-16th. St S.W.
> Puyallup, Wa. 98371
> 206-845-3156
> 04/11/97
> 09:29:25
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