My bird feeder is successfully up. I really do like it. The cardinal couple still comes regularly, and now there’s a little yellow bird visiting regularly. And, just yesterday, the yellow bird brought a little yellow friend along. Because I’m not an ornithologist, I don’t know what kind of bird the little yellow ones are without doing a bit of research, but I thought if I didn’t go find out it would give Peggy something to do today. 
Anyway, I love all my little feathery visitors, except this one:
I don’t like bluejays. They are the pirates of the bird world, and I find they do nothing good for me or my feathery friends, the scoundrels. If only I had a BB gun…
Actually, I think your little yellow friends are Yellow Warblers. They love Nebraska!
And I’m with you with the bluejay. As is often the case, beautiful on the outside, arrogant, mean & just stinkin’ rotten on the inside. Just what makes them think their little dirty birdie _ _ _ _ doesn’t stink?
My husband also wants a bbgun. And not the old school ones. He wants one with a cannister (?) to really fire some good shots. In his case, he wants to eat some rabbit.
I think Brad could arrange that, and Leo wouldn’t even have to get a gun.
Or you could fill a water gun with gasoline. That might work!
How did I get involved with you people?
You took my comment!! Okay, I’ll say, “or you could use a shovel!”
I got my BB gun at Walmart. Here in Maryland, if you can believe it. It was about eight years ago. Before BB guns became illegal in Baltimore. Stupid Baltimore…
I just use a pump rifle. I didn’t want to mess with air canisters. Pumping is free. I did get pellets instead of BB’s though. Pellets are pointy and break the skin more easily. I haven’t shot any bluejays with it, but then, I don’t get many bluejays in my yard. Maybe the rabbits told them to stay away. Stupid rabbits…
Yes, but then I’d have to skin the stupid thing. My husband doesn’t seem to understand that I like to cook, I like to bake, I like to generally start from scratch in the kitchen. But SKIN a RABBIT or PLUCK a CHICKEN???!!??? ICK!
I thought of you guys when I saw the stuffed bluejay in the “Birds of DC” exhibit at the National Museum of Natural History today. They also had swallows – he, he – long live Monte Python!