My home has become 'Crow Central' Why?

Teila said:

Anyone know anything about Crows? The black-feathered kind, not the noise made by rooster kind.

For a couple of years now, I have a small flock of 5 bantam girls, not much bigger than a Crow and in some cases, because of age, smaller.

I live in suburbia. There have always been a few Crows here and there but one or two, no trouble really except for the fact that they make noises that remind me of the movie Predator and I look up expecting to see a 'shimmering' figure lurking in the trees!

I have always been extra cautious with the chicks when they are tiny because I would not put it past a Crow to take one.

Anyway, the past couple of weeks, working away at my desk, I look out the window and have counted up to 15 Crows hanging around on my front lawn. No one else's lawn, just mine! They are in the trees out the front, in the back garden, drinking from the fish ponds .. they are noisy, annoying, damaging the trees and scaring my bantams!

My girls supervise free range every afternoon and longer on the weekends but their feeding is always done in the covered run so no food laying around attracting the Crows.

Why me? What am I doing to attract these noisy evil looking creatures? I am looking out the window now, getting the feeling I am soon to be the lead in the remake of Birds!!

Any thoughts on how I can get them to move on? Remembering that I live in suburbia and have neighbours to consider and local laws to comply with. Also, anything that I do to scare them is probably going to scare my girls also?

Anyone know if the numbers are just going to increase or maybe I am just a vacation spot and they might move on?

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