Crows !

[Billboy1]

Any effective methods to scare them there taking the pee here out of the gas guns a scarecrows ?

 

[bobk]

Lead

 

[JCMaloney]

Somebody with a gun shooting them?
Don`t take the pee then.

 

[Rookie]

This year nothing seems to phase them.
Have got gas guns, scarecrows, inflatable scary man, portek plastic crows hung up, dead crows dotted about etc.
Shot one with the rifle yesterday, and it's mate came straight back to have a look. Normally if you shoot one they clear off for a while.

 

[Driller]

Shoot a few, soak them in diesel over night then scatter them on the ground, works a treat.

 

[Brisel]

Shoot a few, soak them in diesel over night then scatter them on the ground, works a treat.

Does that stop predators taking the corpses away?

Bangers are useless against corvids. Lead is the best.

 

[Sonoftheheir]

More and more crows about for some reason? No natural predators?

 

[Brisel]

More road kill about to sustain them.

 

[Fish]

Shot one or two and tare them up, head here, one wing there, other wing over there, just scatter the body parts about, they will circle over head and slowly drift away, and will not return.
This only really works with rooks, carrion crows will in time return.

 

[David.]

Rockets shift them for a bit, but problem is they have got all day to try, you probably haven't.

 

[teslacoils]

There are an endless list of folk coming on here wanting to spend days sat on the edge of your field shooting vermin.........maybe try some of them?

 

[Brisel]

Rooks come in bigger numbers than crows.

 

[DrWazzock]

Scarecrow in hi viz coat. Must be wearing a hi viz coat or jacket and tie rustly supermarket carrier bags to his hands. Tin foil face. Bright glinting slight noise keeps them off hear and the occasional banger rope in the hedge bottom. Gas guns useless.

 

[Brisel]

Scarecrow in hi viz coat. Must be wearing a hi viz coat or jacket and tie rustly supermarket carrier bags to his hands. Tin foil face. Bright glinting slight noise keeps them off hear and the occasional banger rope in the hedge bottom. Gas guns useless.

Would you like a job?

 

[David.]

Tethering a ginger cat would be very effective, but obviously nobody would be so barbaric these days.

 

[Brisel]

Tethering a ginger cat would be very effective, but obviously nobody would be so barbaric these days.

Why ginger? Do you just not like them?

 

[Wombat]

They are their usual beligerant selves here, shift em from one end of the field, they hop off to the other and vice versa, or the next field and then back 30mins later

 

[Tha Ulsterscot]

Shoot at them as often as possible, even when they are flying away and scatter the shells where they are feeding. They can smell the gun powder and won't go near it, probably easier done at harvest than now though.

 

[Wilksy]

Scarecrow in hi viz coat. Must be wearing a hi viz coat or jacket and tie rustly supermarket carrier bags to his hands. Tin foil face. Bright glinting slight noise keeps them off hear and the occasional banger rope in the hedge bottom. Gas guns useless.

Won’t the magpies steal his face!?

 

[yellow belly]

The problem with crow controll round here is the nest in the tall trees round the village and on the village nature reserve so no one can controll them when the young leave the nest before they fly

need to cultivate the idea of 4 and 20 blackbirds baked in a pie natural organic food !!