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garden birds and nasty huge big crows and ravens.
I have been pinned to the kitchen table for most of the day writing some articles for a customer; planning some schemes of work and writing kids worksheets, and have been sitting in front of large glass patio doors and a huge window. This has been lovely, the sun's been streaming in, the Rape seed in the field behind has been billowing in the gentle spring breeze, the Wisteria is just coming into bloom and my magnolia is in full glory. I have taken this opportunity whilst sitting here working to observe one of the latest projects in my garden: The wooden bird house my little boy made me for my birthday and the copious amounts of wild bird seed and bread crusts that have been put out for the resident robin, song thrush, sparrows, swifts and tiny little un identified birds that I used to see in my garden. Today would have been lovely to see these ornithologic specimens fluttering around, busy in a mating dance,
BUT NO!
instead, I have been subject to a huge flock of scaveging crows and ravens. They descend down from the roof of my house, past the patio window and doors and have made me feel as though I am living in some kind of jurassic nightmare, intimidated by a flock of huge terradactils. Not only that, since they have been here, none of the lovely tiny birds have been seen for love nor money!
How do i get rid of said giant birds, and get the others back????
thanks you.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I live very rurally, and there is plenty of road kill for them to eat, why don't they go and clean up the lane and leave mr Robin my sunflower seeds?
Have you ever seen a crow up close? Thoses birds are enormous, I'm afraid they might decide to peck my jewellery right off me.....
I know what you are saying, and they are very beautiful and clever and can carry off a whole loaf of bread still in the bag and spread it with utterly butterly before feeding it to their chicks with a spoon, and you can only admire that, but they are moving in. They'll be bringing their nests with them soon. I'm going to have to start charging rent!
What shall I do?
Try what this guy did: http://www.dumpalink.com/pictures/1130085794/****_Off_Crows
Might do the trick..............
They were talking to each other in their husky crowy voices, taunting me: "Come on sweetheart! Come and have a go if you think you're hard enough." One of them was wearing a trench coat smoking a cigar for crying out loud.....
I'd call the police, but I think they probably own the police.
The Gangsters of the Ornithological world.
All that was left was the camera bag and the plastic housing of his Canon79. Everything with an irridescent coating had been taken, removed with a sharp, strong tool. Later both men were found half a mile away unidentifable from their own dental records. All their fillings had been removed with the same sharp strong tool.........
Go out and make a lot of noise to move them away - its a bird that can be scared by sudden movement and noise - do this a few times and they will leave the garden as they will associate the place as 'unsafe' as they are pretty intelligent birds - if you leave them alone, they will start to use it as a safe haven from the others around which are noisy and scary.....just wave a tea towel and run towards them quickly - that'll shift them,
Ok, it's fine. I was thinking maybe tomorrow then, I shall open the door a bit and perhaps fire a hairdryer out the door, The noise may well startle them, but then, they maybe easily startled, but they will be back, and in greater number (oh, no, that's sand people!)
Alternatively I could get one of those football honking aerosole cans things, except, where do you buy them? I've always wondered that, HCAnderson doesn't cover that.
So, in summary, Stop worrying about the crows, scare them away with loud noise and immitation wing flapping; bring home road kill for them to eat instead and sling it in the field so they go there first, perhaps along with my dog's poop as they like to eat that aswell as carrion, and stop writing scary stories about birds, focus instead on my editor's deadlines and stop frightening the children with my apparent insanity.
Cheers Nickmo: You are a real hero. (you could be Banana man and tell the crows what for!)
And to be fair, these were the Rappers of the crow world and they were spelling their call sign with a T, an Ice-T and a Snoop Dog to boot.
I remember the film and I still don't like the crows. Just because they are wearing quirky clothing, doesn't make them OK.
maybe it is that fear that I have been experiencing today? Scarred by Disney.
Whilst I was asking a genuine question, and was beginning to worry that the crows were pushing more timid birds that had previously been happy in my garden away, I was also being very naughty.
I was perhaps getting a bit 'carried away' with the concept of 'crows as gangsters' and they weren't wearing trench coats, smoking cigars or wealding Uzi s. They were in fact, just eating the bread and being a bit cheeky.
but (Oh my word, a huge great big heron has just flown in slow motion past my window, I had no idea there were so many birds around here, it seems to becomming the avarian capital of UK) I was beginning to feel a bit timid of the big crows and my little girl was afraid.
I took no offence to your comments, and valued your accurate information regarding their habbits and lifestyles. It was a very useful response to my question.
I apologise for being a drama queen, telling tall tales and generally using this forum as a vent for a bit of 'creative writing'
*blush, blush, blush*
Hope we're still friends, Lonnie?
love
mimififi
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mimififi - I really sympathise because we've been having the same problems with magpies. Perhaps that where the old "Scarecrow" originated.
I agree that sudden appearances and movements may possibly frighten them off in the short term, but I suspect that while they busy looking after babies, they're going to be pretty ruthless in the search for food.
I loved nickmo's link. Really made me laugh.
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