Crows

[rockyracoon]

Is there any way to discourage a crow from sitting on your roof, we have one that seems to have adopted ours, it annoys the dog no end and this morning at daybreak the thing was making a great racket right by my open velux window, I'm quite ready to shot the bloody thing.

Help, thanks.

[ummmm]

Peow peow!!

No, I would never hurt them, but Jeeezzzzzzzzzzz....how fecking noisy are they??

[wolf63]

I would never hurt an animal but that doesn't mean I can't joke about it.

I am on my Kindle and can't do links - perhaps the RSPB site have ideas for bird scarers.

[gness]

Wolf...I can't think that the RSPB is in the business of scaring birds...other than preventing collisions with windows....might have a damaging effect on membership. As the most scary object for a bird is the human shape perhaps a cardboard cutout of say...Boris Johnson.. on the roof may work. ;-) x

[petal54]

we've rooks,loads of.

[Answerprancer]

What is it with this place and animal hatred!?

[wolf63]

AP - you can't tarnish me with the animal hating. I love and respect other species. But the noise of crows would drive St. Francis nuts.

Have you been over to the Very sad news thread. How can a fight erupt in such a thread?

Night all. I better go as I have a cat stomping on my head.

[Answerprancer]

It wasn't aimed at you Wolf - it was just a general observation.
Yes I read through the "Very Sad" thread and saw a lot of irony.
Careful with that cat Eugene!

[rockyracoon]

Chillax peeps, I wouldn't hurt it really, I would like to know how to make it leave though. It sits on the roof mocking me!

[Chipchopper]

They do make a racket, I know but then I think, it's better than the sound of trains, planes, drunken revelers, road drills etc.

What makes you think they are mocking you ?

[snags]

''It's like it's warning me of impending doom''

Like in The Omen? Have you checked your children's skulls for a cluster of sixes?

(buy a carp bait catapult off ebay and blast the bugger off the roof).

[jno]

perhaps you should learn to embrace your inner crow?

[rockyracoon]

Chipchopper, we get those noises as well

Snags, that's a thought, my son has been misbehaving a bit lately and he won't have his hair cut, may he is harbouring 666 somewhere on his bonce.

OH suggested a peashotter but it sounds like a lot of work. Next time the OH is down the Olympic site I'll get him to ask the hawk man if he can bring his bird here to scare off the bleedin crow ;)

[rockyracoon]

Lol jno, I read that as inner cow and that's been embraced already :)

[mrs.chappie]

I do hope you don't pop a cap in the little fella. He will move on eventually.

[snags]

If it's right by your open Velux window, could you tempt it inside with a sliver of Fillet Mignon or a dollop of Foie Gras (or Value Ham if you must), then 'deal' with it?

[jno]

how about an owl?

http://www.songbirdgarden.com/store/ProdImages/DALENOW6.jpg

[rockyracoon]

That's a very good idea snags, I could have the dog waiting to grab him as he flies though.

You're devious!

[rockyracoon]

Would a crow be stoopid enough to fall for that, now I wouldn't mind a real owl.

[Barmaid]

We've got one that sits on the aerial and annoys the hell out of the chickens and the blackbirds. I saw it take a starling the other day and sit on the roof and eat it.

There are so many birds round here (living next to a lake) and they make one helluva racket at 4am that one additional crow doesn't really make much difference.

[snags]

Nail a few hundred cartons of Kia-Ora on the roof (it's too orangy for crows)...