What’s wrong with people
PA town overrun with crows. And they want them gone. Well, gosh, how could you get rid of birds? I mean, that’d take like some magic or something.
Via Robert.
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February 15th, 2012 at 10:13 am
Looks like its a fairly urban area, which presents a problem for hunters.
I’m about 5hrs from Pittsburg – on the other side of the state. The guys I shoot trap with and I crow bust almost every weekend. It’s not uncommon to take 50 crow in an hour of hunting, especially during the migratory season. There is no closed season for crow or bag limit for crow in PA.
Crows are smart and learn quick. If the locals in the problem area were able to get a variance and allow crow hunting for 2 weekends, my bet is the crow problem would move on. It’s easy to burn out a crow hunting spot by spending to much time there.
February 15th, 2012 at 11:32 am
There is a small town in GA which had (and my still have) an annual pigeon shoot, with shotshells supplied by the town. On the appointed day the rather small downtown was closed to all pedestrians and vehicle traffic, and volunteers would stand at both ends of the main drag in town, where the pigeons congregated on the courthouse square. One group would shoot at the flying birds until they raced to the other end of the square, where the other group would shoot, and so on, until the population had been thinned sufficiently to allow parking and walking without fear of pigeon swarms or poo.
So I know there is a working way to eliminate the crow problem. It’s been done before.
February 15th, 2012 at 12:20 pm
The Poet Carl Sandburg describes earning money when he grew up in Illinois – Chicago was so overrun with sparrows, that the city offered a bounty of a penny for each dead one you brought to a collection center. Apparently to save money most of the folks hunting for them, including Mr. Sandburg, used air rifles.
February 15th, 2012 at 3:05 pm
CALIFORNIA, Pa?? I’d say they have an identity crisis. I hate crows, it comes from watching them eat dog-poo and the insides of dead animals where I grew-up overseas. Crows are very social and engage in a lot of “talk” and vocalizations. Crows are tough to get rid-of, and they’re tough birds – a bb-gun isn’t enough. Like Skullz says, crows are smart and learn quick, and they have exceptional eyesight, they watch you. If you point a stick at them a number of times and it goes bang (or even *pfft!*) and one falls down dead the others will learn to fly away. But once a crow population is established it takes a lot of work killin’ em to rid the neighborhood of the whole flock.