It's Started, Again ....!

[Outlaw Pete 2,224]

I f**king Love this bit!

 

 

My starling boxes are starting to produce again. This is when the C Rings start stripping off the strings like shit off a hot shovel! And I f**king Love it!

 

I can put up with all the up and down ladders, which I often enough have to carry a fair old distance

 

I ignore the appalling f**king stench that emanates from these warm, sweaty boxes. I don't even care that the little f**kers shit all over me!

 

Just holding their hot little bodies and trying to get All those rings out there? It's f**king great! Highlight of my entire year, to be honest.

 

Yes. I know. How f**king sad Is my life?!?

 

[fireman 11,148]

Not sure about sad Pete and it great to see yor hard work putting up the boxes is paying off ,just hope the furry branch stinker don't get to them all this year ike it did last

[spartan 99]

Pete i think its a sick life you have love reading all your posts and your not the only one,ringing my chicks the other day was one of the best feeling ever

[mule1943 291]

its a pleasure to read your posts pete good photo

[j j m 6,600]

well done bud

[South hams hunter 8,938]

Well done Pete, would love to do that at mine but wouldn't get f**k all

[Outlaw Pete 2,224]

Howd'ye mean, Hammy? Put nest boxes up?

[South hams hunter 8,938]

I've tried boxes in the past and nothing ever used em

[Outlaw Pete 2,224]

Okay. You're either living on the moon then, or ye've simply tried the wrong sorts of box for your situation.

 

It's probably just slipped over the time to get takers now. But, nothing's hewn in stone, in this game.

 

I can virtually guarantee ye occupants for next season though. I just need an idea of ye environment and to advise ye about the boxes.

 

Anyone wanting to hear more about nest boxes can join the Yahoo Group, Nest Boxes.

 

Nest Boxes are another facet of my passion. I make so many that the bloke who owns the yard in town asked me who was paying for all the wood I'm constantly buying off him. He was f**king incredulous when I just shrugged and said " Me. ".

 

€10.00 plank makes me four starling boxes though. I have over thirty of those up now. God knows how many tit boxes scattered about the place. Few other sorts too. Always looking to expand.

[low plains drifter 10,939]

Good to see someone doing something good for starlings, a lot of people seem to think they are just rats with wings keep it up and all the best mate

[Outlaw Pete 2,224]

LPD; As I'm impressing on my cattle raising neighbours: Starlings feed their young, virtually exclusively, on the larvae of crane flys. " Leather Jackets ". And Those f**kers live beneath the ground, eating Grass from underneath!

 

The more starlings we can encourage, the better the pastures.

 

That aside? I just like starlings. They've always been around me and, now? They're quite my little mates.

 

I have thirty boxes out for them now. Ten, in three different locations. Now, I want a word with Noel. I've realised how his disused, dutch barn, up on the road will be perfect for ten more.

 

Then, I'll have to start experimenting with lower tiers of boxes, under my existing colonies .....