I hunt birds.
Here is a link to some regulations in my area.
Kill Birds
Some say I spent too much time hunting them, but I am easily amused due to my low IQ. Being alone with one's thoughts or maybe with excellent music while having a goal makes it "not" seem like being lazy and wasting one's life away. Fishing is the same. If I sit on the dock with good beer and ? I am lazy. If I put a line in the water I am not lazy, I am fishing.
As untold millions look often to see what I post on the web, I am not lazy, just doing my job.
All my bird friends are legally safe right now.
I shot a few birds today, but all I have ever use is a camera.
It is not hard work, but it can be difficult.
Most birds do not come to bird feeders. As I seldom leave my porch chair, anyone can see the problem.
I just now took dozens of photos chasing a Kinglet in an Elm Tree and all are a second late.
Gaining focus before he flies maybe a foot away is hard. His job is not to pose for me, but to glean tiny bugs from the branches.
I sit up high in the tree tops. From the ground chasing this bird today would be useless. Actually it was useless from my vantage point - but fun! Here are the best shots:
Make no mistake, I will hunt this bird again. I already have great photos of him from hunting days past. It is not about photos, but about "hunting". I know as Winter arrives and bugs are less he will be eating my suet mix less than ten foot away and an easy target. He might even land on my leg. No matter, today he has just arrived for this season, and I am hunting him. Many migrants will just pass by on their way to the tropics, but this guy is home.
I am excited to see he made it back.
I understand the concept that hunting birds and killing them helps all.
I understand the concept of killing birds to eat.
I understand I eat chickens that are killed in a cage and have no "sporting chance".
I am not logical.
Anytime one of my birds is harmed, it pisses me off.
Soon just yards from my porch many exciting breeds of ducks will arrive.
I will hunt them with my boat and camera. It pisses me off that anyone would find "sport" and "thrills" in killing them.
While stalking the Kinglet, accidentally got a photo of the Green Warbler from the last post and this Nuthatch about a thousand feet up.
My eyes are old. Often I don't know what I shot until i can see the photo.
I have some decent camera crap and some decent guns. The cameras are for birds and the guns are for Zombies.
Easy hunting is this Grosbeak on a feeder. That is not the mature male I have posted here as to waiting on, but WTF, good looking bird (and photo). This kid believes he is a man (bird man)!
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