We seem to have an influx of them lately, not sure why, but they are getting right on my t!ts. Us and next door had a new roof 2 years ago, and they are pooing all over it. Most of the roofs on the bungalows in our road have the same problem.
Anybody know anything about the dos and don'ts of crows.
There has always been a few knocking about, but just recently they seem to be busing them in on coaches.
weecalf - we had same problem with pigeons - I bought some of that plastic spike stuff you screw to the top of fence panels, it worked but we do still have the odd one or two chance their luck on the spikes.
We have an influx at the moment but it is because they have brought their off-springs out, we know they are the same family for they all have a splodge of white somewhere on their body! Hopefully when they are fully fledged they will go further afield, and just leave Mum and Dad as per usual.
Towie, I think you will find that your crows are in fact rooks, crows dont flock like rooks and are more sllitary. Hence the saying:
If you see more the one crow in a field they are rooks and if you see a single rook in a field its a crow.
Chuck you are correct in saying that you can shoot a herring gull but only if it is causing a hazard to your health, you got to be careful to shoot the right bird, you cant just kill every herring gull just in case.
I felt sure when I first saw the white splodge on the crows that they had inadvertently sat under one that was doing a whoopsy!, but all the young ones are the same.
Magpies are evil little buggers. I once came home to find an injured magpie lying on the drive and two others which at first I thought were trying to help the injured one. As I grew closer I realised that in fact they were pecking the poor little sod to death. They flew off at my approach but it was too late to save the third.