I Despise Starlings!

This is what the Starlings do to any cherry that pokes outside the netting!!

I despise Starlings.
No not because they nest in my tractor motors or make a mess in my sheds.

I despise them purely for the fact that they can destroy a nice crop of Cherries faster than you can butter your toast.

We recently completed the annual task of putting up the cherry netting and even though this works to stop them decimating the entire crop, they still try their best.
I’ve personally witnessed Starlings find a small hole in the netting and then use their sharp beaks to make it big enough to fit them and their kin folk through!

The past two years in particular have been extremely bad (last cherry season alone I shot around 200 hundred!!).

But this year I have a secret weapon named Big Bertha.
Big Bertha is my recently acquired bird cannon who I will be deploying into active duty today.
This should help keep the Starlings off the nets and away from my Cherries!!

Big Bertha