{"id":1080,"date":"2013-11-10T07:49:35","date_gmt":"2013-11-09T17:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/?p=1080"},"modified":"2013-11-13T06:37:21","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T16:37:21","slug":"i-despise-starlings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/?p=1080","title":{"rendered":"I Despise Starlings!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1081\" style=\"width: 584px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=1081\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1081\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1081\" class=\" wp-image-1081\" title=\"Cherries\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4656-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"574\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4656-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4656-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 574px) 100vw, 574px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1081\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This is what the Starlings do to any cherry that pokes outside the netting!!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I despise Starlings.<br \/>\nNo not because they nest in my tractor motors or make a mess in my sheds.<\/p>\n<p>I despise them purely for the fact that they can destroy a nice crop of Cherries faster than you can butter your toast.<\/p>\n<p>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.<br \/>\nI&#8217;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!<\/p>\n<p>The past two years in particular have been extremely bad (last cherry season alone I shot around 200 hundred!!).<\/p>\n<p>But this year I have a secret weapon named Big Bertha.<br \/>\nBig Bertha is my recently acquired bird cannon who I will be deploying into active duty today.<br \/>\nThis should help keep the Starlings off the nets and away from my Cherries!!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1086\" style=\"width: 624px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=1086\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1086\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1086\" class=\" wp-image-1086 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4661-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"614\" height=\"461\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4661-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4661-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1086\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Big Bertha<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1080"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1083,"href":"https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080\/revisions\/1083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}