Crows attacking my house!
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The crowd are likely raising young and on edge at the moment as they prepare to fledge. Either live with it for a brief period, or take onboard some of the advice you've been provided.
Cover the windows externally, use bird scarers, or limit their ability to perch on the windowsill.
Shooting birds that are doing you no physical harm, and irresponsibly putting down poison are incredibly stupid things to do.
Cover the windows externally, use bird scarers, or limit their ability to perch on the windowsill.
Shooting birds that are doing you no physical harm, and irresponsibly putting down poison are incredibly stupid things to do.
lawtoni said:
damage is being done to our home.
What damage?
k off crows on the windows has some merit.I had that happen years back with an overly-territorial blackbird.
I tried printed out face, CD's on garden canes, a car cover (cheap and simple as it covers the windows) and all sorts.
My first instinct wasn't to go all Wile E. Coyote and start mixing poison into bird seed.
I despair sometimes.
I tried printed out face, CD's on garden canes, a car cover (cheap and simple as it covers the windows) and all sorts.
My first instinct wasn't to go all Wile E. Coyote and start mixing poison into bird seed.
I despair sometimes.
jagnet said:
lawtoni said:
taking the paint off the window ledges and the grouting around the window panes mainly
Paint and putty? Paint and effin putty?! You'd kill wildlife for that? lawtoni said:
When they start on the car what's the plan then!?
Put it in the garage?otolith said:
Shambler said:
I take it if your house was infested by rats or mice you would just put up with it?
I take it if you had bats in your loft you'd just do them in?Shambler said:
I take it if your house was infested by rats or mice you would just put up with it?
Last time I had a mouse in the house (my fault, I left the front door open) I caught it in a plastic box and released it in the field. We have a few rats down by the stream but they do no harm.No way for rats and mice to get in the house any other way, so never going to get an infestation. Prevention better than cure.
We had this problem at our last house; crows pecking at the windows, digging out the putty, etc.
Our solution was to hang strips of this tape from the top of each affected window. It sparkles and makes a noise as the wind moves it, which scares them off.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/CCMART-Scare-Holographic-...
Left it up for a couple of weeks until the crows moved into attacking neighbours’ windows instead (who eventually copied out tape defence!). Repeated it each year until we moved.
It’s not ideal, but it’s cheap, legal, effective and only a mild nuisance for a few weeks until they move on.
Our solution was to hang strips of this tape from the top of each affected window. It sparkles and makes a noise as the wind moves it, which scares them off.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/CCMART-Scare-Holographic-...
Left it up for a couple of weeks until the crows moved into attacking neighbours’ windows instead (who eventually copied out tape defence!). Repeated it each year until we moved.
It’s not ideal, but it’s cheap, legal, effective and only a mild nuisance for a few weeks until they move on.
If you don’t have a gun as you say OP, get yourself to the local gamekeeper.
Yes the resident snowflakes will cry about it but you’ll probably find these bampots don’t understand how the countryside works and think watching chris packham, putting out a few fatballs and some Facebook likes is all that’s required for natural harmony to reign.
You’re probably on the receiving end of inaction earlier in the year. You need to get the buggers early in spring when they start to make the nests, or return to the previous years.
We still get them but I’ve managed to get them nesting away.
If you don’t know the local gamekeeper ask about, the local farms or pub will know! Then ask if he’s got a decent old 2.2 that he wants rid of.
Yes the resident snowflakes will cry about it but you’ll probably find these bampots don’t understand how the countryside works and think watching chris packham, putting out a few fatballs and some Facebook likes is all that’s required for natural harmony to reign.
You’re probably on the receiving end of inaction earlier in the year. You need to get the buggers early in spring when they start to make the nests, or return to the previous years.
We still get them but I’ve managed to get them nesting away.
If you don’t know the local gamekeeper ask about, the local farms or pub will know! Then ask if he’s got a decent old 2.2 that he wants rid of.
Shambler said:
The other half are city types who would be apoplectic if they saw what went on in the countryside.
Nope lifelong country dweller me, just not a psychopathic scumbag who delights in killing stuff just for the hell of it.I have worked in farming and in an abbatoir so I am well aware of how and when it is necessary to kill animals.
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