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To: Hot Tabasco
We've got starlings here in Michigan and at times they flock by the thousands

Gad, I HATE those birds. I had to stop putting out suet for the songbirds because the Starlings would empty the suet baskets within hours.

I did try to get even with them though - I set up a suet basket on my tree and placed a 10x2 board in front for them to land on. I then placed two bare electrical wires about an 1/8" apart on the board, and run the wiring into my house where I plugged it into a switched outlet by the window.

When the Starlings would light on the perch, I would flip the switch and give the little bastards a jolt.

While I certainly enjoyed their squawks when I hit the juice, even that didn't keep them away.
121 posted on 01/08/2007 7:33:25 AM PST by reagan_fanatic (You'll shoot your eye out, kid)
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To: reagan_fanatic

Try 220...


124 posted on 01/08/2007 7:45:59 AM PST by null and void (Propaganda doesn't have to make sense. Hell, it often works better if it doesn't.)
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