I want to house sparrow hunting in some of the barns I hunt by. I can go there with my Benjamin discovery and shoot about 10 in 20 minutes but there are still hundreds around. I've probably shot about 80-100 sparrows there. But I'm planning on hunting them at night but I've done it in my grampas barn with a white light and some just stay there and some crawl be hind boards. I've heard green and red light don't spook deer but I'm wondering if anyone here knows or has tried hunting birds at night. Thanks
Do green or red lights spook birds?
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My only dealing with birds is with pigeons, A super one watt or brighter will blind them at night, Now some will just take off and fly, I am not sure why but most will stop dead in there tracks , The brighter the light the better, Birds or pigeons are not color blind so I do not think color of the light matters.
I can tell you rats, white light, green light and red light they take off like rockets.
On birds I think you just need a super bright white light,
Mike
I can tell you rats, white light, green light and red light they take off like rockets.
On birds I think you just need a super bright white light,
Mike
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Birdkiller, Birds have exceptional color acuity and motion sight . An red tail hawk can see a rat in a brown field from 1/4 miles+ away! A pergine falcon can see and dive from over a mile up at 140 mph and grab a bird in flight......For your style of hunting, if you had a night scope you would have sitting targets as most birds, (Not Owls or whippoorwills of course) cannot fly well at night. They only really get off the roost if frightened, and then bang into stuff until knocked out or luck onto another place to sit. With a quite gun and night vision you would murder them.
But without NV iride has the better solution of the bright light. I would say get a mounted high power light or flashlight that you can put stationary and shoot without moving the light....
But without NV iride has the better solution of the bright light. I would say get a mounted high power light or flashlight that you can put stationary and shoot without moving the light....
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While I've never tried hunting birds with red or green light what I can add is that in the wildlife control profession we use them to chase birds out of areas. Certain species respond better to red while other species respond better to the green.
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Thanks guys The guns I'm going to use is my Crosman 1377 and 1322 my discovery will hurt steel. My dad has a big flashlight that we used to shoot a rabbit with and it seems pretty bright. I watched a video on YouTube and the birds didn't seem to mind the flashlight while they shot the birds. There's another place I want to try with a grain shed we shoot pigeons and starlings and sparrows I we shoot them in there at daylight and they just stand there until you shoot one then they all fly over the garage part and you can't get em back. I'll use a bright light and see what happens
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