[quote=airforce]...Now you know the reason for the English saying of "Four and 20 Blackbirds baked in a Pie". Meat pies are very big in England even today. They are mostly Pork or Steak and Kidney now though. In living there threer yearsI could never find a Black Bird one, but they damm sure had enough of them flying everywhere there.
Yes, it takes a bunch of starlings to make a pie. A pigeon pot pies is much easier to make - or at least it takes fewer of them. But there may be laws or regulations on taking them, and if there are, some busybody is sure to report it. The good thing about using sparrows and starlings is that they're both invasive species that crowd out other, more desirable birds. Even the most hardened bird lover (like myself) have no problems getting rid of a bunch of them.
Onward and upward,
airforce
