crow count 2017

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brybenn

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We had our first frost and it brought in thousands of birds. I got a new field and canceled the flight for 78 crows the other night. It's been a real late start and I've only been out just the once. Lost some good shooting spots because of anti gunner pressure but I think it's going to be a good year
 
Are they pests? Do they eat crops or destroy anything? I've always liked crows, they are extremely smart and cunning. Couldn't imagine shooting that many without a good reason.

Patrick
 
phinton81 said:
Are they pests? Do they eat crops or destroy anything? I've always liked crows, they are extremely smart and cunning. Couldn't imagine shooting that many without a good reason.

Patrick
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Crows are terrible. They do destroy things, are super annoying at 4 am and in the bird world they are A holes. The fact that they are smart is frustrating.

I will venture to say you have limited experience with crows. Magpies are the same deserve the same fate
 
Gnome75 said:
Crows are terrible. They do destroy things, are super annoying at 4 am and in the bird world they are A holes. The fact that they are smart is frustrating.

I will venture to say you have limited experience with crows. Magpies are the same deserve the same fate
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Aside from being annoying, what do they destroy?
 
phinton81 said:
Aside from being annoying, what do they destroy?
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Crows will pull out sprouts of just about any crop, gardens too. Oats and corn are common. They will also trash bird feeders and eat the majority of the food people set out for good birds. Good birds being sparrows, blue jays, and chickadees.

Magpies will also peck the eyes out of living cows.
 
Crows will drive out any other bird in their hood, so that can be annoying. Also, chasing raccoons thru your neighbourhood at 4am can be a tad of a nuisance. No shortage of crows either.
 
So OP, what is the count up to? One summer, my Diana and I had a hate-on for starlings and made a huge dent in the neighbourhood population. I can't imagine any starling fans out there.....another very invasive species and not native to N America. ( too late to reverse their migration)
 
...we have tons of them here...they are just annoying...i take great pleasure in killing annoying things...come out here and have your way on my farm...please (i think they are protected in manitoba, like most other annoying things...like the government, etc.)

...good on ya
 
crows kill alot of the small birds .when im out hunting and see the crows i use my voice and caw at them softly . they actually will fly around and land in the tree to see whats going on . a mistake on there part .
 
rar said:
crows kill alot of the small birds.

My wife has a bunch of feeders out. A few years ago we had quite a few grosbeaks around which she really enjoyed seeing cause they are very nice looking birds. Anyway one day she was watching them feeding and a crow came down knocking one off the feeder and killing it. She never liked me shooting crows around the farm here before that but doesn't mind now.
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Crows and magpies are nest raiders, song birds and game birds. Here on the coast, a subspecies, PNW crow, breed year round. Giant flights, unfortunately not here.

Corvids are also the principal source of diseases that have seen mammoth culls of commercial fowl in the LML, also linked to West Nile.
 
They did several thousand dollars worth of damage to my lawn and a lot of my neighbours this year in their quest for grubs. I was never thinking about killing them before that happened. If I see one now game on.
 
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