Finally, after about 2 months of time off from this permission I headed back for a few hours last weekend. Only spent about 2-3hrs there but ended up with 2 sparrows and 2 starlings.
This permission has tons of sparrows but they do not stay still, 99% of the time they land and move within a literal second. When we first started going there last year they weren’t like this, however I took some time off thinking they would become dumb again with no luck.
Glad to get out here and stretch the legs on my FX Crown but trying to yield a good amount of birds has just become impossible.
I made some starling decoys from some Halloween decorations and I will try them next time to see if I can get them to commit to a certain area or not.
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