Little killer got killed

Very nice! I've been keeping an eye on my bird feeder, if they(invasive house sparrow and starlings) show up then they will get greeted by some Hades!

Nice! King Heavies @69.5 ft-lbs cures them of that. 

nice job...they are a real pain around here keeping my bluebirds out of their bird houses. A few have left the earth but never enough of them. lol

Stupid question. I never shoot sparrows for one reason. There are so many little brown birds. How the heck do you know it's a sparrow? I know what cowbirds look like M&F, but I have brown birds with stripes etc. Are they all sparrows?

Stupid question. I never shoot sparrows for one reason. There are so many little brown birds. How the heck do you know it's a sparrow? I know what cowbirds look like M&F, but I have brown birds with stripes etc. Are they all sparrows?

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Females can be difficult to identify one type of sparrow to the other. Males are easy to tell apart. The vocalization of English sparrows makes them easy to identify also. I have a bird identification app on my phone I often use, Merlin.

Cmatera, not a stupid question at all, but it’s not too hard to ID house sparrows, just need to study a tiny bit. As stated above, the males are easy, females are a little more difficult. Check it out. https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/House_Sparrow/id#


You don’t want to accidentally shoot native sparrows, so just shoot the male house sparrows till you can positively identify the female house sparrow. It won’t take you long to get it down. 


PS, great shooting Dave, btw, I had a 6 successful tree swallow broods from my boxes and gourds

Thank you for the help. I will start practicing identifying them. First, the males, then the females. Sounds like they need to go and are in endless supply.

When the females are hang'n with the males, the females get wacked first.