Bird and animal loving softies, would you like to state the case this year for sparing the apple defiling doves in my backyard?

Yes the hooligans are back this year, and this time they’ve brought hoards of their criminally tendencied relatives. Worse, the thieves appear to be instructing the formerly well behaved other species on how to plunder my raw materials for pies, tarts, crisps, jellies, etc. Now I fully appreciate that the birds, like me, are tryin to make a living, however their practice of gouging a chomp from an apple, knocking it to the ground, then moving on, leaving the ground covered with one chomp apples is not going to be tolerated this year. I’ve rush ordered a pair of Daisy pump BB guns, but am open to suggestions pending their arrival. I can advise those of you inclined to hurl such epithets as “heartless vicious scum” or “deranged sociopath” my way that such invectives are wasted in the face of my pie visions vanishing in front of me.