3 on the 3rd
Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2009 10:16 am
Well the New Year didn't just bring in that New Year smell but it seems a family of Mynah's decided it was perfect time to move into my neck of the woods. Every morning for 3 days I woke hearing the parents and there 1 youngin picking there way through the paddock out the back. I watched as every day they ran any other bird out of our neighbourhood, and any other mynah's close by would help out. The young maggie and his folks had been pushed out emphatically and the kookaburra's had decided our place was no longer so hospitable 
The plan was simple get up early, why scavaging through the paddock pick of the parents first and then take out the youngin well that was the plan. So on the 3rd I got up early, and bugger it had been raining overnight and there was no action out back
so I went back to bed, well wasn't long before my 2yr old trotted into our room.
So anyways the day started as usual with the feeding of the zoo 8mth old and 2yr old
was putting our 8 month old back to bed when I heard the buggers, so I goes and graps the r9 out of the safe and grab the pack of predators Lewis sent to try. I gently open the door from our ensuite to our back deck and blow me down 3 had turned into approx 10 
Cock the R9 and ingoes a .20 predator, looking for adults one cooperates and jumps onto the fence post, now had been a while and the heart was pumpin, got the AO focused and lined him up and tried my best to squeeze it off nice and smooth and ... bugger I think I missed he flew off but most of the flock stayed. So lined up another feeding on the ground adjusted for trajectory and squeezed another off, def think I hit him but he and the rest decided it was time to leave.... except 1 real youngin that was just sitting on the deck wandering what had happend so put another in the spout and this time it just achored the poor bugger to the dirt, actually he did a small rollover 2 kicks and that was it.
So I had mixed feelings for the morning. Was impressed with how the last was just bumped and anchored to the spot but the other 2 I was a little unimpressed, more with myself than anything.
Anyway an hr or so later I was down the front and there are two mynah's head first in the dirt 2 meters apart, the first two were hits after all, Having a look at them one was a good hit in the chest but was a little to one side too much and exited at the bottom of his chest area, def more damage than the exacts, most of the time exacts you almost have to pluck em to find the holes. The other was alot neater not so much damage. Picked em both up to throw them out the back paddock and found that the last one that was a def hit had disapeared so either the local fox had been through his usual corner and picked it up or maybe a hawk or something, bit of a mystery actually.
So all in all 3 shots and 3 less pesky Mynah's chasing the natives out and I learned a bit more too about these hardy and very smart pests, not a bad start for the year, only 3 days in things are looking up.
The plan was simple get up early, why scavaging through the paddock pick of the parents first and then take out the youngin well that was the plan. So on the 3rd I got up early, and bugger it had been raining overnight and there was no action out back
so I went back to bed, well wasn't long before my 2yr old trotted into our room.So anyways the day started as usual with the feeding of the zoo 8mth old and 2yr old
was putting our 8 month old back to bed when I heard the buggers, so I goes and graps the r9 out of the safe and grab the pack of predators Lewis sent to try. I gently open the door from our ensuite to our back deck and blow me down 3 had turned into approx 10 Cock the R9 and ingoes a .20 predator, looking for adults one cooperates and jumps onto the fence post, now had been a while and the heart was pumpin, got the AO focused and lined him up and tried my best to squeeze it off nice and smooth and ... bugger I think I missed he flew off but most of the flock stayed. So lined up another feeding on the ground adjusted for trajectory and squeezed another off, def think I hit him but he and the rest decided it was time to leave.... except 1 real youngin that was just sitting on the deck wandering what had happend so put another in the spout and this time it just achored the poor bugger to the dirt, actually he did a small rollover 2 kicks and that was it.
So I had mixed feelings for the morning. Was impressed with how the last was just bumped and anchored to the spot but the other 2 I was a little unimpressed, more with myself than anything.
Anyway an hr or so later I was down the front and there are two mynah's head first in the dirt 2 meters apart, the first two were hits after all, Having a look at them one was a good hit in the chest but was a little to one side too much and exited at the bottom of his chest area, def more damage than the exacts, most of the time exacts you almost have to pluck em to find the holes. The other was alot neater not so much damage. Picked em both up to throw them out the back paddock and found that the last one that was a def hit had disapeared so either the local fox had been through his usual corner and picked it up or maybe a hawk or something, bit of a mystery actually.
So all in all 3 shots and 3 less pesky Mynah's chasing the natives out and I learned a bit more too about these hardy and very smart pests, not a bad start for the year, only 3 days in things are looking up.