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Grey Crow

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  • 22-05-2007 2:02pm
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    nollaig
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    Hello,

    A new house was built recently.

    Lately, a grey crow keeps coming to the house and pecking at the windows.

    Why would he do this???


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    boneless
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    More than likely he is seeing his image in the glass and is getting territorial. It could also be that he is pecking at insects on the window; the magpies around here do that sometimes.


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    nollaig
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    More than likely he is seeing his image in the glass and is getting territorial. It could also be that he is pecking at insects on the window; the magpies around here do that sometimes.

    How would you stop him from doing it?


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    boneless
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    That is hard to do with hoodies I think; they are agressive little buggers!!:p

    With magpies I find that putting up a blind works... or something to reduce the reflectiveness of the glass...


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    fits
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    I've seen grey crows poke the eyes out of newly born lambs...
    Horrible feckers so they are.


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    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    nollaig wrote:
    Hello,

    A new house was built recently.

    Lately, a grey crow keeps coming to the house and pecking at the windows.

    Why would he do this???
    If you have putty in the windows then they are after that. I had similar problems years back and had to put threads across the frames to keep them off. Removed the threads after a year and they were straight back. It took 2 years to get rid of them


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    Lillyella
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    fits wrote:
    I've seen grey crows poke the eyes out of newly born lambs...
    Horrible feckers so they are.

    Please say thats not true.


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    fits
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    If the ewe is weak after the birth and the lamb is vulnerable, they're in like a shot...
    Thats nature for you. It really is cruel.


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    r3nu4l
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    This crow is a hooded crow as boneless eluded to :) They really can be persistent alright.

    As for pecking out the eyeballs of lambs, crows are generally carrion feeders and have a habit of taking easy pickings. If you watch Pirates of The Carribbean 2: Dead Mans Chest you will see at the start that some live captured pirates are left hanging in a cage and the crows land on the cages and start pecking their eyes out. This was a common punishment for many criminals in many parts of the world during the middle ages...

    I like crows, maybe it's the sadist in me
    /searches for evil smilie >-)


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    liberty 2007
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    nollaig wrote:
    How would you stop him from doing it?




    Hi, had the same problem last year, two gray crows, the kids thought the birds were going insane, every morning from 5am. I told a friend who had a shotgun, problem solved.


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