Crows and their nests.

[Exfarmer]

I wonder if that level of cooperation could be managed these days?

Or like the Badger cull, with isolated pockets of non cooperation or anti. Actually with modern legislation, would it be legal??

certainly not legal today, disturbing any birds nest is a serious crime

 

[Netherfield]

certainly not legal today, disturbing any birds nest is a serious crime

Someone who shall remain nameless removed a nest from on top of an outside light, because said birds kept crapping on the path below, which in turn the dogs delighted in rolling in.

 

[PSQ]

certainly not legal today, disturbing any birds nest is a serious crime

Nothing worse than seeing them dropping onto a nest on the ground, or watching a group of them attacking a leveret.
Not shooting up through a hoodie nest when you find it should be the ‘serious crime’. Same with magpies, the amount you see on the urban fringe fleeting across dual carriageways and the damage they do to the wild bird population, there should be a national RSPB campaign to cull them, if the RSPB hadn’t been hijacked by ignorance and dogma.

 

[bluebell]

Them crows, like magpies and seagulls have soon adapted to "easy" food from mans waste, thats seagulls at rubbish tips, magpies, road kill and round domestic bins, and as the chap said food waste at food outlets

 

[milkloss]

32grms of 4s through the nest then 6s in the second barrel to get the flyaways.

Is shooting nests illegal? I figured it must be as you're not supposed to disturb nesting birds.

 

[J.Marsh]

If anyone's having trouble with crows I'd be happy to come and try and thin the numbers down I live in Derbyshire but Happy to travel within reason.

 

[2wheels]

Is shooting nests illegal? I figured it must be as you're not supposed to disturb nesting birds.

probably now adays. it must be 20+ yrs since i did it.

 

[GOODYSMATE]

Old boys around here i can remember used to have very sharp knife and score around the base of cartridges ,cant remember if above or below the wad , anyway hole lot used to go out like a cannon ball straight though the nests . 12 bore cartridges

 

[J.Marsh]

Old boys around here i can remember used to have very sharp knife and score around the base of cartridges ,cant remember if above or below the wad , anyway hole lot used to go out like a cannon ball straight though the nests . 12 bore cartridges

Cut shells "poor man's slugs" never done it myself but it definitely works. Very naughty tho

 

[egbert]

Old boys around here i can remember used to have very sharp knife and score around the base of cartridges ,cant remember if above or below the wad , anyway hole lot used to go out like a cannon ball straight though the nests . 12 bore cartridges

I would strongly advocate NOT trying this.

 

[milkloss]

I would strongly advocate NOT trying this.

What happened when you tried it then?

 

[Exfarmer]

Cut shells "poor man's slugs" never done it myself but it definitely works. Very naughty tho

Father used to talk fondly of the cartidges issued to the Home Guard which were single ball very effective for nest destruction

 

[egbert]

I have a love hate relationship with corvids.

I don't start lambing until after the cows are calving, -cleansings from which seems to sate the hungry beggars without bothering the lambs much.
Since watching and listening to em in Brit Columbia, I adore the sharply turned out magnificent ravens.
And enjoy watching their dominance of the air when they're nesting here- woe will betide the buzzard that strays into their 'no fly' zone.
I like less when they've found a Galloway calf newly hatched in the snow.....

I was delighted to see we'd got jays in recent years.
Right up until they discovered the house martin chicks/eggs......

I have -several times- pulled into Tebay services at dusk, headed north, as the rooks(?) come to roost. What a noise!
We deliberately time our trip to take the spectacle in now.

How many more songbirds would there be if the magpies were better held down?
Some co-ordinated local larsen trapping has taken hundreds -over 100 one spring in one trap....still they come.

 

[egbert]

What happened when you tried it then?

I never have- don't keep a fowling piece m'self- but can see that the physics could result in a terminal incident.

 

[Wombat]

Fecking things are rooks, just put on this earth to pee me off after I have struggled drilling or doing something. There are hundreds round here

 

[J.Marsh]

Fecking things are rooks, just put on this earth to pee me off after I have struggled drilling or doing something. There are hundreds round here

It's because with the price of cartridges alot of people have stopped shooting them. Before my time but my dad says farmers used to get issued so many free cartridges a year for such things.

 

[Exfarmer]

It's because with the price of cartridges alot of people have stopped shooting them. Before my time but my dad says farmers used to get issued so many free cartridges a year for such things.

That was rabbit control cartridges, they were subsidised but dont think they were actually free