Crows are SO.....annoying!
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Yes, the leaves have finally turned colors and are dropping...but it will be mid-January before our trees are anything like "naked".
Forecast tomorrow (here) is about 60° F. for the high. I often work up a sweat walking to my stand...only to freeze later when the sun goes down if I stay a few hours waiting on hogs.
Forecast tomorrow (here) is about 60° F. for the high. I often work up a sweat walking to my stand...only to freeze later when the sun goes down if I stay a few hours waiting on hogs.
Freedom_fighter_in_IL
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LOL poor Flint, you would freeze to death in what I call comfortable! Anything above 45* and I am sweating like a Thoroughbred after a derby race! I swear I am going to have to fatten you and H&H up a bit before I take you 2 on Northern hunting adventures! Get a little insolation. But then again, you 2 and TexasPatriot are probably going to cook me alive when I come down for hog killing!
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I have had crows help locate deer kills on more than one occasion. Last year I shot a doe and it ran about 75 yards before expiring out of my line of sight. In less than half an hour, several crows flew in and called to others from both the ground and from trees. After my 30 minute wait time, I was able to follow the crows right to the kill.
Armored farmer
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oh well....It is time, especially if you are a recurve hunter. Black powder is to firearms as recurve is to archery.
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^^^^^^^^^^^
I haven't had the same kind of luck with crows and deer.
But I DO have this experience: About 20 years ago I had shot a buck and field dressed it right where it fell. I wiped my hands off in the grass before getting a towel from my truck, loaded up the deer and headed for home.
Once home...I noticed my wedding ring was missing! (EEEEK!). It had always fit a little bit loose and apparently when I wiped my hands in the grass it came off. Sheer terror came over me...imagining how I would explain this to my wife.
I hurried back to the spot where the gut pile was...only to discover a big pack of crows on the ground around it. They all flew off as I approached. I searched every square inch of an 8 foot circle looking for my ring, but it was no where to be found.
Wanna bet what happened to it? I know one of those sharp eyed crows spotted my gold wedding band and made off with it. I returned later in the day with a metal detector (borrowed) and couldn't turn it up.
Crow got it...I am sure. So...if there weren't already reasons to not like them...me and crows have "history".
I haven't had the same kind of luck with crows and deer.
But I DO have this experience: About 20 years ago I had shot a buck and field dressed it right where it fell. I wiped my hands off in the grass before getting a towel from my truck, loaded up the deer and headed for home.
Once home...I noticed my wedding ring was missing! (EEEEK!). It had always fit a little bit loose and apparently when I wiped my hands in the grass it came off. Sheer terror came over me...imagining how I would explain this to my wife.
I hurried back to the spot where the gut pile was...only to discover a big pack of crows on the ground around it. They all flew off as I approached. I searched every square inch of an 8 foot circle looking for my ring, but it was no where to be found.
Wanna bet what happened to it? I know one of those sharp eyed crows spotted my gold wedding band and made off with it. I returned later in the day with a metal detector (borrowed) and couldn't turn it up.
Crow got it...I am sure. So...if there weren't already reasons to not like them...me and crows have "history".
I don't doubt that, about the crows getting the ring. They probably like shiny things and one of them took to his nest. The one that got it traded it for two road kills and some corn. That was not funny.
Crows are about as smart as they come when talking about birds.
I hate them they eat my corn.
Crows are about as smart as they come when talking about birds.
I hate them they eat my corn.
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Bobson
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Have you tried hanging a few owls around, OP?
Maybe something like this. My parents hate crows too, so they hung two of these types of fake owls a few hundred yards apart of either side of the house, and now they never see or hear crows near their land.
Maybe something like this. My parents hate crows too, so they hung two of these types of fake owls a few hundred yards apart of either side of the house, and now they never see or hear crows near their land.
I was really to young to remember all the particulars but if I remember right I had a cousin who had stole a Crow from a nest. He had cared for the bird and the thing could talk. I do not remember if he had the Crow's tongue split by a vet??; but talk it could. A poor man's Parrot who would ride on his shoulder and even clean his ears for him!!
http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=598097 is a thread I posted long ago dealing with pay back and Crows. Maybe you will like.....I did
Miss direction and using the buddy system works especially in a hazardous situation.
This came from a gent who runs a 2000 acre corn farm up around Barron, Wi., not far from Oshkosh. He used to fly F-4Es and F-16s for the Guard and participated in the first Gulf War.
His story:
“I went out to plant corn for a bit to finish a field before tomorrow morning and witnessed The Great Battle . A golden eagle - big, with about a six foot wingspan - flew right in front of the tractor. It was being chased by three crows that were continually dive bombing it and pecking at it. The crows do this because the eagles rob their nests when they find them.
At any rate, the eagle banked hard right in one evasive maneuver, then landed in the field about 100 feet from the tractor. This eagle stood about 3 feet tall. The crows all landed too, and took up positions around the eagle at 120 degrees apart, but kept their distance at about 20 feet from the big bird. The eagle would take a couple steps towards one of the crows and they'd hop backwards and forward to keep their distance. Then the reinforcement showed up.
I happened to spot the eagle's mate hurtling down out of the sky at what appeared to be approximately Mach 1.5. Just before impact the eagle on the ground took flight, (obviously a coordinated tactic; probably pre-briefed) and the three crows which were watching the grounded eagle, also took flight thinking they were going to get in some more pecking on the big bird.
The first crow being targeted by the diving eagle never stood a snowball's chance in hell. There was a mid-air explosion of black feathers and that crow was done. The diving eagle then banked hard left in what had to be a 9G climbing turn, using the energy it had accumulated in the dive, and hit crow #2 less than two seconds later. Another crow dead.
The grounded eagle, which was now airborne and had an altitude advantage on the remaining crow, which was streaking eastward in full burner, made a short dive then banked hard right when the escaping crow tried to evade the hit. It didn't work - crow #3 bit the dust at about 20 feet AGL.
This aerial battle was better than any air show I've been to, including the war birds show at Oshkosh . The two eagles ripped the crows apart and ate them on the ground, and as I got closer and closer working my way across the field, I passed within 20 feet of one of them as it ate its catch. It stopped and looked at me as I went by and you could see in the look of that bird that it knew who's Boss Of The Sky. What a beautiful bird!
I loved it. Not only did they kill their enemy, they ate them! One of the best Fighter Pilot stories I've seen in a long time.....There are no noble wars----Only noble warriors.
Eagles 3, Crows 0
http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=598097 is a thread I posted long ago dealing with pay back and Crows. Maybe you will like.....I did
Miss direction and using the buddy system works especially in a hazardous situation.
This came from a gent who runs a 2000 acre corn farm up around Barron, Wi., not far from Oshkosh. He used to fly F-4Es and F-16s for the Guard and participated in the first Gulf War.
His story:
“I went out to plant corn for a bit to finish a field before tomorrow morning and witnessed The Great Battle . A golden eagle - big, with about a six foot wingspan - flew right in front of the tractor. It was being chased by three crows that were continually dive bombing it and pecking at it. The crows do this because the eagles rob their nests when they find them.
At any rate, the eagle banked hard right in one evasive maneuver, then landed in the field about 100 feet from the tractor. This eagle stood about 3 feet tall. The crows all landed too, and took up positions around the eagle at 120 degrees apart, but kept their distance at about 20 feet from the big bird. The eagle would take a couple steps towards one of the crows and they'd hop backwards and forward to keep their distance. Then the reinforcement showed up.
I happened to spot the eagle's mate hurtling down out of the sky at what appeared to be approximately Mach 1.5. Just before impact the eagle on the ground took flight, (obviously a coordinated tactic; probably pre-briefed) and the three crows which were watching the grounded eagle, also took flight thinking they were going to get in some more pecking on the big bird.
The first crow being targeted by the diving eagle never stood a snowball's chance in hell. There was a mid-air explosion of black feathers and that crow was done. The diving eagle then banked hard left in what had to be a 9G climbing turn, using the energy it had accumulated in the dive, and hit crow #2 less than two seconds later. Another crow dead.
The grounded eagle, which was now airborne and had an altitude advantage on the remaining crow, which was streaking eastward in full burner, made a short dive then banked hard right when the escaping crow tried to evade the hit. It didn't work - crow #3 bit the dust at about 20 feet AGL.
This aerial battle was better than any air show I've been to, including the war birds show at Oshkosh . The two eagles ripped the crows apart and ate them on the ground, and as I got closer and closer working my way across the field, I passed within 20 feet of one of them as it ate its catch. It stopped and looked at me as I went by and you could see in the look of that bird that it knew who's Boss Of The Sky. What a beautiful bird!
I loved it. Not only did they kill their enemy, they ate them! One of the best Fighter Pilot stories I've seen in a long time.....There are no noble wars----Only noble warriors.
Eagles 3, Crows 0
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Ahhhhh, Crows. Many has been the time when one has made a random call only to shock a tom into gobbling and letting me know he was there. Many has been the time when a unfortunate crow coming into my "made in my own mouth" call has turned a bad day bird hunting into a one shot/one kill day.
Crows ain't so bad. It's them dam Blue-Jays that I can't stand. Don't know how many times I thought I saw the white flick of a ear or the twitch of a tail, only to have it followed by the familiar blur of blue and the shriek that they know I'm there. Seems they enjoy letting the forest world know that all is not right and that an intruder is close. Almost as bad as those dam pine squirrels........
Crows ain't so bad. It's them dam Blue-Jays that I can't stand. Don't know how many times I thought I saw the white flick of a ear or the twitch of a tail, only to have it followed by the familiar blur of blue and the shriek that they know I'm there. Seems they enjoy letting the forest world know that all is not right and that an intruder is close. Almost as bad as those dam pine squirrels........
dirtengineer
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Maybe bring a .22 pistol with you next time.
sgtstryker
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Crows are very intelligent, they just happen to be a predator bird. I like to help out their prey with my Savage in .17 HMR.
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actually crows are considered a spiritual creature and are good for warning everything in the woods about a dangerous presence. Besides that their 'duty' as an animal is to be a scavenger; a janitor to clean up other dead animals. Bout the same as a vulture or buzzard.
If it's legal in your area, a recorded crow and hawk/owl fight will bring them in in droves, including the hawks and owls in the area if they can hear it.
And yes, they are attracted to shiny objects and will decorate their nests with them.
If it's legal in your area, a recorded crow and hawk/owl fight will bring them in in droves, including the hawks and owls in the area if they can hear it.
And yes, they are attracted to shiny objects and will decorate their nests with them.
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