Crows! Ugh...

[sc_rufctr]

Originally Posted by Chocaholic

Ok, cancelling wind chimes! Interestingly, with the boat cover on and the Bimini down, he has not come back.





Yet.

Then it's the color of the boat that's attracting him.

[ckcarr]

Crows... Bah.
I have to put up with bats every spring and summer night. They like to come into my front entryway at night and hang on the walls... It's like a stone alcove so they think it's sanctuary.

Used to think I had a mouse problem with droppings. Tried all kinds of mouse traps. Then one night I went out and looked up...

[Chocaholic]

Originally Posted by sc_rufctr

Then it's the color of the boat that's attracting him.

I wondered about that. It’s mostly white.

[sc_rufctr]

Are there blue or red stripes on the boat?

Our local crows love blue.

[Bob Kontak]

Originally Posted by SCadaddle

Jays are in the same family as the Crows both being Corvids.

I think this has little to do with the pandemic. Cool pics.

I like the fake dead crow and the motion activated noise machine posts.

[Tobra]

That is the West Nile Virus pandemic

[LWJ]

I know crows are a pain in the azz. Sorry. I am irrationally attracted to them. Love the attitude. The verve. Them birds got big ballz.

Had to say it.

[aigel]

Originally Posted by RWebb

If Calif. is allowing crow hunting, then it can only be legal under a Depredation Order

No. Go to the link I sent. It is a hunting season. You can go hunt them and make crow pot pie! Just like you can hunt canvasback ducks, or snipe, or merganser.

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[Noah930]

Originally Posted by rfuerst911sc

Get a hot female blow up crow doll and dress it up all sexy with red lipstick on the beak . Place it in neighbors yard ............ problem solved

I don't even want to know how you know those things exist.

[911boost]

Crow season is Nov 1 - Feb of the following year here with no limits on the number you can harvest, if you were so inclined.

[Eric 951]

in PA crow season is 7/3 through 4/11 no bag limit, but hunting is limited to Fri-Sun.

[RWebb]

Originally Posted by aigel

No. Go to the link I sent. It is a hunting season. You can go hunt them and make crow pot pie! Just like you can hunt canvasback ducks, or snipe, or merganser.

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reread the OP - no way he can claim hunting - unless he drags his sail boat somewhere

I'm glad this thread got started tho - I now have a colleague and some youngun's working on this - looks like US FWS is up to its usual illegal tricks again...

[flipper35]

You might as well talk to them about all the migratory game birds then.

[svandamme]

Originally Posted by wdfifteen

One of our family stories that gets told over and over is about shooting starlings.
When I was 15 my bedroom was directly above the kitchen and our garden was right outside my window. It was a favorite feeding ground for starlings, by the thousands.
One afternoon mom was cooking and, having nothing better to do, I decided to get rid of a few starlings. I lined up my .410 shotgun, my 16 gauge, my 20 gauge, Dad’s double barreled 20, my .22 rifle, and Dad’s .22 revolver on my window sill. I carefully watched the birds, looking for clusters that might be better targets. When the time was right I unloaded all the shotguns as fast as I could and started picking off the floppers with the .22s.

I should have mentioned my plan to my mom.

There she was, calming singing her hymns and making noodles when WW III broke loose just above her head. She ran from the house waving her arms, with flour and noodles flying everywhere. She hid in the barn until Dad came home from work. I think he was supposed to yell at me, but he couldn’t stop laughing.
For 30 years every time The Great Starling Massacree came up at family dinners she left the room and we rolled on the floor laughing.

LOL, i did exactly the same thing.
They nested in a huge tree next to our house, all summer, they would keep you awake..
Go out, 3 12 gauge side by side and super posess..
one at a time, blamblam , next blamblam, next blam blam

and then it rained dead birds..
My cat was all depressed after that, sing all them dead starlings..it defied his hunter honor to see such massacre...

[911boost]

Make sure the crow that is bothering you is not Randall Flagg, you do not want to mess with him.

[JavaBrewer]

Originally Posted by svandamme

LOL, i did exactly the same thing.
They nested in a huge tree next to our house, all summer, they would keep you awake..
Go out, 3 12 gauge side by side and super posess..
one at a time, blamblam , next blamblam, next blam blam

and then it rained dead birds..
My cat was all depressed after that, sing all them dead starlings..it defied his hunter honor to see such massacre...

Similar story my Dad told when we lived in Canada. Crows had taken over a neighborhood tree making lots of noise and mess. After a week or so he and his hunting buddy walked over one afternoon with their shotguns and the birds fly off. So they walk back to the house to sit and wait. The birds returned quickly so they walk back out with guns and again the birds fly away. So they leave their shotguns leaned up against the tree and walk back to the house. The birds returned, they again approached the tree w/o guns and the birds stayed. Boom boom boom, it's raining crows.

My home has been under the flight path from a nesting grounds to daytime sites - I'm talking many thousands (if not more) birds. It changes with the season and weather patterns but I have thought about taking some out but also heard stories that they will target you/house if you mess with them.

[quicksix]

[QUOTE=911boost;10916782]Make sure the crow that is bothering you is not Randall Flagg, you do not want to mess with him.[/QUOTE
Trashy wont be far behind

[RWebb]

due to thread drift, I offer this:

https://www.seattlemet.com/news-and-city-life/2017/05/the-secret-life-of-urban-crows

her doctoral advisor was a grad. student of Russ Balda (who got nabbed by FWS for lack of a federal permit to - guess what? - "take" jays during his studies)

Balda was at No. Az. univ. and his lab may still have a web page - he worked out all the spatial memory on jay's stuff (and yes they are exceptional at locating where they buried nuts/acorns; also at robbing squirrels which they watch bury them)

[Jeff Higgins]

Originally Posted by RWebb

reread the OP - no way he can claim hunting - unless he drags his sail boat somewhere

I'm glad this thread got started tho - I now have a colleague and some youngun's working on this - looks like US FWS is up to its usual illegal tricks again...

If it is legal to discharge a firearm, it is legal to hunt. Many of us have already cautioned him on checking his state law regarding the hunting of crows, and on checking his local law regarding the discharge of a firearm.

Assuming his particular state has a season for crows, and assuming he can lawfully discharge a firearm wherever it is he keeps his boat, then, yes, he can "hunt" those crows right there, without having to "drag his sail boat somewhere".

Those circumstances would absolutely allow "sport hunting" of the offending crows. Beyond that, if allowed in his state, he can also shoot them under "depredation" rules. If that is legal in his state, he may be able to both discharge a firearm where it would otherwise be prohibited, and shoot these crows with no license of any kind.

Here in Washington, for example, we can legally shoot "nuisance wildlife" in any city, in any suburban neighborhood, or anywhere else the discharge of firearms is normally prohibited. I've done so myself many times - we have a very healthy coyote and raccoon population in the surrounding rural areas, and they all too often cause trouble in our neighborhood. My good buddy's one year old Golden Retriever, for example, got killed by raccoons one night that were trying to get at his chickens. His five kids were absolutely devastated, understandably so.

He's not a "gun guy" or hunter of any kind, but he knows I am. So we sat up every night for damn near three weeks on his second floor back deck, him with a spotlight and me with a rifle. A really loud rifle - .30-'06 (yeah, a bit much, but it is all I own that has a scope on it, so it works at night). I killed eight raccoons over the course of the first two weeks, and only kept up the vigil to make sure there were no more. Right here in suburbia.

Yes, the cops came every single time. By the time they got there, we always had a raccoon to show them. All we did was explain "why", and each and every one of them left without a fuss. As a matter of fact, they were all beyond sympathetic. And, of course, the neighbors knew what we were doing and why, it was always someone outside of our 'hood who must have called. .30-'06's do make some noise...

No one went to prison. No one had to hire a lawyer to stay out of prison. It was never any trouble whatsoever. Not then, nor on many other occasions when I've shot coyotes and raccoons. Hell, Animal Control sometimes disposes of them for us. Nice guys...

[RWebb]

totally irrelevant to the MBTA - you should know that