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Local crows are selfesh
mac10
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Every now and then I have a few loaves of cheap bread to put out for birds ,,watched as the crows pile up 2/3 slices and and take off with them
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Crows are very smart birds. They even know how to make a great Dagwood sandwich! 😁
I love watching them. They will gang up and attack a hawk or snake.
I heard once that they have 23 different vocalizations.
Surviving crows after seeing their buddies die get very wise. (same as yotes)
Around barns and cattle feed lots
I've seen them take off fast if I'm carrying a rifle or a stick that appears to be a rifle.
I've purposely carried a stick or club the size of a rifle to get the smart ones to ignore the stick being carried then after the smart ones get to thinking they are safe I'll swap out for the rifle.
If the shot on the smart ones is missed it will be long time before the crow even returns or maybe never.
They will stay away if they see some of their buds laying dead.
Master survivalist
Years ago, on a camping trip with my nephews, I showed them how to snare a crow with fishing line and some bait on top of the picnic table. Once caught, the crow started squawking loudly, and suddenly there were hundreds coming to his rescue! They got a big kick out of the whole ordeal.
They can find a meal on the ice in no time. Dont know how they find it so fast! They watch the roads for free meals too, some guy had a talking crow in Wis. Dells years ago. Jimmy the talking crow.
I have made hundreds go crazy with my wood call
We're still talking about crows, right?
I've always loved crows, especially in the candy & liquor form😯
Yes sorry, back to birds, was drifting into NFWC territory due to cough syrup
When I had service calls in Atlanta I noticed I did not see very many songbirds.I thought maybe the pollution from all the traffic.But there were plenty of crows.When I was at Mt Mitchell and the temperature was about zero,there were the crows.
One of my college room mates had a pet crow that would drink home brew and get tipsy enough to stagger.
I'm ready to go crow hunting. Just got a new shotgun and fresh batteries in the FoxPro.
Crows remember people's faces so they know how you have treated them in the past. Chicken people appreciate crows as they keep hawks and other raptors away from their flocks.
In late afternoon they fly low over the county roads looking for roadkill. My most productive call is a distress call. They have decimated our sage hen population. By perching on the high wires they observe the adults entering and leaving the nests. Then it is eggs and chicks for lunch.
Back in the day.......crow shooting was a big deal in Southwest Oklahoma.
Peanut fields everywhere. 😎
Around my place, we seem to have a lot of Ravens with a few crows that fly over every now and then. I had not previously known much about Ravens and had long assumed they were crows.
When I first observed one up close, I was shocked at how big it was! At least 1\3 larger than our common crow. The calls made by Ravens is also quite different, a deeper, more guttural sounding caw. The Ravens tail feathers also are more pointed on the edge, where crows are flat across.
I have read crows have great memories and are very smart
Stories of what they do are proof of there abilities
Crows are rough on small game young of any kind. Saw one snatch a young rabbit out of it's
Nest.
I knew a guy in Georgia who was a professional crow hunter. He gave guided crow hunts. Jerry even did a dvd on crow hunting, and how to cook crows, named Eating Crow. He'd put the crow breast in the crock pot with a strip of bacon on top, it was pretty good.
One day in May, my dog had found a rabbit nest, and she brought a tiny baby rabbit back to the house, and dropped it by the porch. The little bunny was the size of a chipmunk, and it was unhurt. I contacted the animal rescue guys, and turned the little rabbit over to them.
And I asked the guy, if I had not rescued the bunny, and just left it laying there on the ground, what would have happened. He told me, a crow would have landed, and killed the bunny with a single peck to the head, and eaten it. He said crows are vicious.
And they taste like chicken.
I understand that ALL critters gotta eat. I have also seen Blue Jays raid nesting birds nests in the Spring and feed on the young ones and the eggs.
As beautiful as nature is, it is also a very brutal place for many.
Crows do not taste like chicken.
AND mud hens also taste like crow.
I've even tried eating them when I was really drunk and they still tasted bad even when taken with a drink of good whiskey. Kinda reminded me of the one about S O Shingle.
Now that is a sign that food is not good and might be binding inside.
Eating crow and mud hen when drunk seems to make a hangover last longer also.
Adds new meaning to the term that crows are smart.
My Dad mentioned that old timers instead of shooting crows (saving bullets) when the crows would start eating their cherished field corn at the animal feed lot the old timer would drill a small hole in a kernel of field corn and tie a long horse hair and place the corn kernel where the crow would easily find it and when the crow swallowed the corn the crow would claw his throat until he died.
Peta and Audubon society would not like that one now days.