Crows attacking my house!
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I think corvids are pretty bright for animals. Nearly up there with great apes. They remember kindness and unkindness, as far as I understand it. Perhaps that doesn't matter in terms of their worth, but personally, I wouldn't want to be responsible for their deaths.
Maybe try some sort of scarecrow first?
BTW, if it is hoards, it is probably rooks or jackdaws, isn't it?
Maybe try some sort of scarecrow first?
BTW, if it is hoards, it is probably rooks or jackdaws, isn't it?
LaurasOtherHalf said:
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.
'Don't understand how the countryside works'.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.
Animals live in the countryside, if people are so moronic that they live there and then complain about said animals, thats on them.
Personally I think that anyone who suggests killing something because it annoys them is the snowflake, and a
tooMy parents have been having the same problem - 4am they’re bashing on the windows and generally making a lot of noise. They moved to a back bedroom but still occasionally get woken up.
Anyway, the same crows come over to our house and have had all the baby woodpigeons out of the nests in our garden. No problem there; the woodies are a nuisance as well so I don’t really mind.
But now they’ve taken to attacking the little owls at my parent’s house and have managed to kill one of the newly fledged young.
They’re horrible things, almost as bad as magpies but, as others have said, they’re incredibly clever. I’m afraid we’ve resorted to a .22 rifle and shotgun, but I think the OP is better off sitting it out for a few weeks until the young have left the nests.
Anyway, the same crows come over to our house and have had all the baby woodpigeons out of the nests in our garden. No problem there; the woodies are a nuisance as well so I don’t really mind.
But now they’ve taken to attacking the little owls at my parent’s house and have managed to kill one of the newly fledged young.
They’re horrible things, almost as bad as magpies but, as others have said, they’re incredibly clever. I’m afraid we’ve resorted to a .22 rifle and shotgun, but I think the OP is better off sitting it out for a few weeks until the young have left the nests.
Just to be clear (and I write as someone with plenty of shotguns and air rifles that I use for clearing rabbits from my fields)…crows can only legally be shot in accordance with the relevant general license i.e. to protect crops or livestock after all other reasonable non lethal measures have failed: https://basc.org.uk/gl/england/
I’m not being a snowflake (as the rabbits here can confirm) but I don’t think the OP can legally shoot crows in the situation they have described.
I’m not being a snowflake (as the rabbits here can confirm) but I don’t think the OP can legally shoot crows in the situation they have described.
chemistry said:
Just to be clear (and I write as someone with plenty of shotguns and air rifles that I use for clearing rabbits from my fields)…crows can only legally be shot in accordance with the relevant general license i.e. to protect crops or livestock after all other reasonable non lethal measures have failed: https://basc.org.uk/gl/england/
I’m not being a snowflake (as the rabbits here can confirm) but I don’t think the OP can legally shoot crows in the situation they have described.
Yeah, I believe we’re in the clear as it comes under ‘Conservation of endangered birds’. Not sure the OP is going to have a legitimate reason. I’m not being a snowflake (as the rabbits here can confirm) but I don’t think the OP can legally shoot crows in the situation they have described.
aizvara said:
I think corvids are pretty bright for animals....
They ruined the sunroof surround on my car. I thought they were my friends because they harried a heron out of my garden and away from the pond then I discovered a few hundred pounds of damage to the car. https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...
Newarch said:
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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