Crows attacking my house!

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dingg

3,975 posts

218 months

Monday 21st June 2021
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A murder of naomi campbells?

otolith

55,899 posts

203 months

plasticpig

12,932 posts

224 months

Monday 21st June 2021
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Get yourself an Eurasian Eagle Owl and plonk it in the garden:



The crows will either do a runner or mob and attack the owl instead of your windows.


Sheets Tabuer

18,902 posts

214 months

Monday 21st June 2021
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Write fk off on your windows with toothpaste.

Kickstart

1,061 posts

236 months

Monday 21st June 2021
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I would have thought a decent local pest expert would be the way forward and from my limited knowledge I think they tend to use birds of prey to persuade the covids to move somewhere else
Good luck...

mike74

3,687 posts

131 months

Monday 21st June 2021
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Evoluzione said:
Hang an old sheet etc over the outside of the window.
Did you really need to be told that?
This!

What kind of an idiot would immediately think the solution is to try and poison the crows and god knows how many other birds in the process?!

After a few days of the sheet being there the crows will likely get out of the 'habit' the have currently adopted.

BadBull

1,924 posts

71 months

Monday 21st June 2021
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lawtoni said:
this will upset the snowflakes that say we should dispose of pests as you can see from previous replies
So I'm a snowflake for not wanting wildlife illegally poisoned?

Go ahead and do it. You've seen the possible punishments.

lawtoni

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258 posts

155 months

Monday 21st June 2021
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BadBull said:
So I'm a snowflake for not wanting wildlife illegally poisoned?

Go ahead and do it. You've seen the possible punishments.
no the snowflake was in reference to reacting someone's tongue in cheek shotgun suggestion, please relax, there is no offence to be taken here.



I appreciate that poison is technically illegal. But no other birds have been seen on our window ledges and something clearly has to be done because whilst occasionally amusing, my wife 2 young sons and I are been woken at 4 am every morning and damage is being done to our home.

The non lethal suggestions so far have been fit all 25 windows with shutters, or drape towels out of all our windows, neither of which, sadly, are workable.

If I employed a professional to do the job, theyd probably kill the feckers, rather than sweet talk the crows!


colin_p

4,503 posts

211 months

Monday 21st June 2021
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Water pistol with Kia-Ora in it.

It is too orangey for crows.

BoggoStump

315 posts

48 months

Monday 21st June 2021
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OP you are a sad muppet. rat poison and bird seed W*****R

Promised Land

4,701 posts

208 months

Monday 21st June 2021
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BoggoStump said:
OP you are a sad muppet. rat poison and bird seed W*****R
Amusingly he is calling others snowflakes, yet he is the one crying because he is woken at 4 am, about 2 weeks ago I was hearing the dawn chorus at 3.30 am, it is around 4 am now, but I don't mind it one bit, even pigeons flapping about at that time, windows are fully open and woodland is about 25 metres from my window, but I don't have to put poison and bird seed out to see them off, it is part of nature.



Bill

52,485 posts

254 months

Monday 21st June 2021
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Crows are wary of people and apparently the shape of a pink face is what scares them off, so pink card cut in an oval or pink balloons in the window may do it.


anonymous-user

53 months

Monday 21st June 2021
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Crows are lovely intelligent birds (we have a rookery opposite our house). I'm sure there is a better solution than eradicating them, how much damage can they actually do, apart from dropping sticks down the chimney?

lawtoni

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258 posts

155 months

Monday 21st June 2021
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Promised Land said:
Amusingly he is calling others snowflakes, yet he is the one crying because he is woken at 4 am, about 2 weeks ago I was hearing the dawn chorus at 3.30 am, it is around 4 am now, but I don't mind it one bit, even pigeons flapping about at that time, windows are fully open and woodland is about 25 metres from my window, but I don't have to put poison and bird seed out to see them off, it is part of nature.
good one!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chF0JMRk4Ok
this is not my video but the crows are basically like this
just more of them

im sure you wouldnt mind one bit!
I'm sure you think this is harmonious nature at its best and the reason why you moved to the country side! good one


lawtoni

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258 posts

155 months

Monday 21st June 2021
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BoggoStump said:
OP you are a sad muppet. rat poison and bird seed W*****R
classy!

Shambler

1,184 posts

143 months

Monday 21st June 2021
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Best bet is to shoot one and leave the body in situ, this will dissuade them from returning. The crows round my area have started to attack the rubbers surrounding car windows as well as killing smaller birds. I shot one and left the body for a couple of days, haven’t seen them since.

lawtoni

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258 posts

155 months

Monday 21st June 2021
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Shambler said:
Best bet is to shoot one and leave the body in situ, this will dissuade them from returning. The crows round my area have started to attack the rubbers surrounding car windows as well as killing smaller birds. I shot one and left the body for a couple of days, haven’t seen them since.
i'm not a gun owner but thankyou for the suggestion

lawtoni

Original Poster:

258 posts

155 months

Monday 21st June 2021
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Shambler said:
Best bet is to shoot one and leave the body in situ, this will dissuade them from returning. The crows round my area have started to attack the rubbers surrounding car windows as well as killing smaller birds. I shot one and left the body for a couple of days, haven’t seen them since.
yes they do attack cars too, again I'm sure all part of nature's charm for the many on this thread

CharlesdeGaulle

26,112 posts

179 months

Monday 21st June 2021
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BoggoStump said:
OP you are a sad muppet. rat poison and bird seed W*****R
No surprise to see you making comments like that on a thread like this, although I do agree that poison seems fairly drastic.

anonymous-user

53 months

Monday 21st June 2021
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Shambler said:
Best bet is to shoot one and leave the body in situ, this will dissuade them from returning. The crows round my area have started to attack the rubbers surrounding car windows as well as killing smaller birds. I shot one and left the body for a couple of days, haven’t seen them since.
Isn't that illegal under the Wildlife and Countryside Act (1981)?