smart little b@s&*(£s

E mc kiernan

Went out for a shot with my rifle yesterday,first shot in over 4wks(it was away getting the barrel floated).I seen grey crows floating about the sheep troughs earlier so I thought i'd have a go.I set up in a corner of the field where I had a good all round view of the field,even went to the bother of dusting off the camo net.After sitting for about half an hour and seeing nothing but swallows I seen this big grey coming my way!Here was me thinking "this boys mine",well so I thought!He circled the feeding area 3 or 4 times moving to the treetops and to the poles well out of range,it was as if he knew well that he was being watched!So it looks like ill have to wait even longer to peg my first grey with the new gun.... :mad:

endasmail

know how ya feel mate ,their cute feckers ,im still waiting to bag one they have a sixth sense or something

E mc kiernan

yeah very smart for the size of their brain ha...

nice1franko

Yeah, they're defo smart fellas. Check these out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1P8Nwl7FAJk
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/joshua_klein_on_the_intelligence_of_crows.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/12/1209_041209_crows_apes.html

kay 9

Out of a vehicle, I always find this the best way to get grey backs and the magpies. So long as your 80 meters off the public road of course;)

Cul a cnoic

nice1franko wrote: »

Yeah, they're defo smart fellas. Check these out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1P8Nwl7FAJk
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/joshua_klein_on_the_intelligence_of_crows.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/12/1209_041209_crows_apes.html

Amazing videos, very smart birds. Lets hope they never get to use firearms, or a lot of us will be in trouble...

bunny shooter

That middle video is awsome :eek:

First one is just plain freaky :eek:

My brother and I a good few years ago shot a lot of crows who roosted in a stand of trees beside a road. For the record, we didn't shoot them in the trees or on/near the road. We ambushed them on the way home to their roost on a flight path we had observed they always used

A few weeks later we were walking on the road under the aforementioned trees and the crows went mad. They were cawing and swooping around like things possessed. Then they started to ****e down on top of us and we had to run out from under the trees. Even after we were away from the trees the crows were still going beserk.

Never really thought of it till now :eek:

Freaky stuff or coincidence :(

nice1franko

Back in the day, when the milkman used to leave glass bottles of milk in a small crate (instead of just cartons, like now), the crows used to peck the aluminium foils off and drink the milk.

Fairly smart... but not compared to what they did next:- once the level of milk dropped so they couldn't get at it anymore they picked up stones and dropped the stones into the bottle to displace the milk and make the level rise so they could get more. I kid you not.

Don't think I'll shoot anymore actually... just incase they're keeping score

Trojan911

nice1franko wrote: »

Yeah, they're defo smart fellas. Check these out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1P8Nwl7FAJk
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/joshua_klein_on_the_intelligence_of_crows.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/12/1209_041209_crows_apes.html

Spooky....

Vegeta

kay 9 wrote: »

Out of a vehicle, I always find this the best way to get grey backs and the magpies. So long as your 80 meters off the public road of course;)

This is no longer legal, even on private land away from the roads. It used to be ok for any animal not protected but the legislation was changed in 2000-2001 and it now applies to all animals.

So climb out of the vehicles for the shot folks.

Sfinn

Would this also include shooting them out the bedroom window;)

morrco

was a full week trying to shoot a magpie he would land on the fence then drop onto the yard eat the dogs dinner. i would wait till he was eating crawel on all fours from the sitting room to the back door so he would not see me the very second i put my hand on the gun i would hear the wife laughing he was gone saturday saw him on fence went out the front door around to the back bang!!it was like cutting open a pillow feathers everywhere i would not let him beat me

E mc kiernan

Niceonefranko,nice videos them japanese crows are way ahead of the rest next time your on youtube check out "crow bashing"!!! look out for the chimney shot...horrid funny

fish slapped

Vegeta wrote: »

This is no longer legal, even on private land away from the roads. It used to be ok for any animal not protected but the legislation was changed in 2000-2001 and it no applies to all animals.

So climb out of the vehicles for the shot folks.

From the back of the pick up, am I in the vehicle or on the vehicle and is this the same as shooting off the vehicles bonnet???

E mc kiernan

Ha good point fishslapped,i'm with you on that one but wouldn't like to argue it out with the law...:D

kerryman12

mad

Sfinn

morrco wrote: »

was a full week trying to shoot a magpie he would land on the fence then drop onto the yard eat the dogs dinner. i would wait till he was eating crawel on all fours from the sitting room to the back door so he would not see me the very second i put my hand on the gun i would hear the wife laughing he was gone saturday saw him on fence went out the front door around to the back bang!!it was like cutting open a pillow feathers everywhere i would not let him beat me

I had the same problem, the wife when we married first thought i was cracked:eek: I find the velux window perfect, some crusts on the lawn take up position and bang!!

Vegeta

fish slapped wrote: »

From the back of the pick up, am I in the vehicle or on the vehicle and is this the same as shooting off the vehicles bonnet???

That'd be up to the Judge to decide I suppose.