Rooks & Rookery

J.R.

One area we have permission to shoot has a hugh problem with rookeries....we have been hitting the rooks hard over the past few weeks....couldn't get out last weekend due to torrential rain.....went there today and not a rook to be seen.

Have the young left.......usually "branchers" out and about at this time of year but nothing there today.Anybody else ant experience of this?



Does anybody know what happens young birds in nests during torrential downpours over a few days...do they get soaked, get cold & perish?

Birdnuts

J.R. wrote: »

One area we have permission to shoot has a hugh problem with rookeries....we have been hitting the rooks hard over the past few weeks....couldn't get out last weekend due to torrential rain.....went there today and not a rook to be seen.

Have the young left.......usually "branchers" out and about at this time of year but nothing there today.Anybody else ant experience of this?



Does anybody know what happens young birds in nests during torrential downpours over a few days...do they get soaked, get cold & perish?

Probably a combination of the shooting and bad weather caused surviving adults to abandon the colony. Have seen colonies move around in response to such pressures. They are pretty smart birds so hard lesson will be learnt pretty quick. Cold wet weather at this time of year will hit most tree and ground nesting birds hard, and rooks are no different in that respect.

.223forme

try using an owl decoy if u can get your hands on one, ideally place a dead crow underneath him and pluck a few feathers crows will come from good distances to mob him like you'd see them do with buzzards,,works for me

amadangorm

.223forme wrote: »

try using an owl decoy if u can get your hands on one, ideally place a dead crow underneath him and pluck a few feathers crows will come from good distances to mob him like you'd see them do with buzzards,,works for me

Isn't the use of decoys for hunting birds apart from pigeon & duck, even "vermin" illegal? Or have I been misinformed by my "betters"?

lanber man

amadangorm wrote: »

Isn't the use of decoys for hunting birds apart from pigeon & duck, even "vermin" illegal? Or have I been misinformed by my "betters"?

Would have thought the owl and dead crow would be more to deter the crows from the area than to attract them

CJmasgrande

J.R. wrote: »

One area we have permission to shoot has a hugh problem with rookeries....we have been hitting the rooks hard over the past few weeks....couldn't get out last weekend due to torrential rain.....went there today and not a rook to be seen.

Have the young left.......usually "branchers" out and about at this time of year but nothing there today.Anybody else ant experience of this?



Does anybody know what happens young birds in nests during torrential downpours over a few days...do they get soaked, get cold & perish?

You say "huge problem with rookeries" can you explain please?

CJmasgrande

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