Crows

Thomasofmel

Mate of mine asked me to come to his farm and get ride of crows that are disturbing him around his garden, i.e. destroyed kiddies paddling pool etc. I was there early in the morning - waiting in cover with my .22 - but of course they don't show up when you are waiting for them :mad:

What is the best way to get them? What time of day? Bait? :rolleyes:

jwshooter

patients .

Thomasofmel

yeah - though so much. Need to go early out again as I don't wont to bother the family while lurking around their house.

Dusty87

jwshooter wrote: »

patients .

You cant shoot in the vacinity of a hospital JW:D
Be there for dawn, if there as bad as you say there shouldnt be need for bait.
Couple of decoys might help.

Thomasofmel

What decoys would you use

Dusty87

Throw out a couple of crow decoys. Actually mightened work with a 22, they might just circle overhead

Thomasofmel

I'll try with the patience first - have a good spot in the woods overlooking the garden :cool:

homerhop

Put down a few pigeon decoys.

landkeeper

are they crows or rooks , rooks around a house will have been noisy up till the last week or so rearing the young most of those have now left the nest and disppersed , with the weather we had up until recently they were probably washing and drinking from the paddling pool now its rained that too will cease

EastTyrone

through a bi9t of bread/ meal down for them

endasmail

Thomasofmel wrote: »

Mate of mine asked me to come to his farm and get ride of crows that are disturbing him around his garden, i.e. destroyed kiddies paddling pool etc. I was there early in the morning - waiting in cover with my .22 - but of course they don't show up when you are waiting for them :mad:

What is the best way to get them? What time of day? Bait? :rolleyes:

get yourself a shotgun
wait for them to come home to roost in the evenings
had to do the same last week ,ran out of cartridges there was that many

deeksofdoom

Ideally you need a shotgun, a crow call and a decoy for his job.

The only way your going to be able to shoot them with the .22 is if they land.

Shoot a rabbit cut it in two and put one half in front of the decoy and the other piece on its own, give a few caws on the crow call and you should have crows and magpies coming in. They'll see the food on the ground and will fly down to it.

However your only going to get one chance at this, they're crafty and don't take long to work out what's happening.

Thomasofmel

Grey crows are the problem - 5-6 of them. Got only one rook today, landed at the range of my .22 - will go back to get the grey ones.

welsummer

Mate of mine asked me to come to his farm and get ride of crows
What decoys would you use [/QUOTE]!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


HOW CAN YOU ANSWER THAT

Thomasofmel

welsummer wrote: »

Mate of mine asked me to come to his farm and get ride of crows
What decoys would you use


HOW CAN YOU ANSWER THAT

Read above and you'll see that there are some answers :rolleyes:

johngalway

Then a larger than normal Larsen trap will clean up grey crows. Ladder traps will also work, but I prefer Larsens due to the smaller size of the trap.

jwshooter

for a large amount of crows a ladder trap works best .

Tackleberrywho

jwshooter wrote: »

for a large amount of crows a ladder trap works best .

Jaysus lads they are huge, I have magpies ~6 in my back yard and can't be shot due to cunning and safety reasons

That look more like a chicken coup