- Jun 15, 2015
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I am so jealous! I WANT crows so bad! Hawks are awful here, and I absolutely love crows...Howdy, I am reviving this thread as I need Help!
When I started this back in July 2014 it was because I had a heap of Crows hanging around and I was concerned about them and my little banties and chicks.
It was suggested “Your girls will get used to them soon enough” and they did .. the Crows do not seem to bother them at all. Me, on the other hand, they are driving me insane!
OK, I do not have the numbers now that I had back then but there is one pair who have moved into my front tree and occasionally friends of theirs drop by for a visit.
I know Crows deter Hawks but Hawks are not really a problem here.
I was talking to my neighbour about them the other day and she says it could be her fault because she feeds the wild parrots bread and honey every afternoon and this pair of Crows are always there and steal some.
Well, that explains, the large chunks of bread I keep finding floating in my fish ponds!
Anyways, these Crows do not shut up! I work from home, I am on the phone to clients and they are constantly asking “what is that noise?” … that noise is the Crows!
Just now I had one sitting right at my front door … taking to his mate at my front window but through the house … my ears are still ringing!
They sit outside the bedroom window at the crack of dawn and make enough noise to wake the whole house.
The section of my driveway which is under the tree they like to sleep in is white with Crow poop.
They have taken to stealing stuff from under our gazebo … I keep finding stuff which should be sitting on a shelf dropped all over the garden. They are constantly stealing our BBQ cleaner. They knock over the oil bottles next to the BBQ and are frequently standing either on the BBQ or the table under the gazebo.
I put watermelon out for the girls on the weekend and spent the majority of the day trying to keep the Crows off it.
I rescued a juvenile Turtle Dove from a Crow that was trying to eat it alive!
I mean these Crows no harm but I need something to deter them??
Earlier posts in this thread mention that they remember faces and I am definitely on their hit list now because I chase them with the broom, shoot at them with the water pistol, run around waving my arms etc!
No matter what I do, they just look at me and teasingly hop just out of reach!
They do not have access to the chicken feed because the run is covered so I do not believe it is the chickens attracting them but if I were to call someone to maybe help me, the first thing they will probably do is blame the chickens. "Want to get rid of the Crows? Get rid of the chickens!"
I have done extensive research on them. And yes, they remember faces. Not only do you chase them with the broom, but you stole their turtle dove lunch...they may be at this point TRYING to make you mad, lol! They're very smart birds...
As to getting rid of them, yeah it's probably partly thanks to the chickens. But, that can't be helped. So, I'd try to get them to go somewhere else by offering them food on the OTHER side of the yard or something.
They're gonna be pretty hard to get rid of now that they know you have what they want, and I don't support shooting crows, so I'm out of ideas. Good luck with them, and tell them to come over to my place