How I handle starlings

[loco for purple]

My colony is almost all round holes.In the five years that I have had my colony I've lost one sy female to a starling.That is when I bought several gourds with the cresent entrance.My birds never took to them, and the fact that I have a heavy hawk presence did not help.Not to change the subject but as I'm writing this, there is a rose breasted grosbeak eating sunflower seeds at one of my feeders.This is the first time I have ever seen one that was not in a book,very exciting..Well anyways when I lost that martin I also bought a beeman pellet gun and quickly took care of that starling.The problem was that I had to work and could not watch over my colony all the time.I bought a cheap wood house and enlarged the rooms to 6x12 ,the starlings love wood houses! I put the house on top of my daughters swingset .When stalings come into my yard instead of going to the martin houses they go to the wood house.If I did not have this house I know that the starlings would create alot of damage to my colony.Just today, I have a new starling couple building a nest in the wood house.They were not here yesterday,once you get rid of one pair a new one quickly moves in.Now I have to go, there are a couple of starlings I have to deal with.....

[Guest]

May your aim be precise and your pellet quick..... mine was

Ian

[klcretired]

loco for purple,
I just got myself a new Beeman, it's very accurate, sighted in from the factory...I Love it!!!!!.....come on S&S nasties we are ready.