What's your method for crow control?

[jerrybob]

We can shoot crows but not ravens......

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[burnieman]

I give mine a couple hundred bucks and tell her to go to the mall. Keeps her away for awhile but she always comes back!

 

[RobertBrown]

Here the season is about 6 months with no bag or possession limits. So, in season, you can fill your truck with dead crows.
Interestingly enough it is illegal to keep one......alive, without a permit.......
I once had a crow for a pet.
I don't shoot them but I will call them. Using an electronic caller, I can fill an oak tree in a few minutes. The Fish crows are remarkably easy to call. They are not as smart as the American Crows.

 

[Pete Judd]

I start around the 15th of July each year to protect my sweet fruits from the crows. Shoot one or two with the 12 ga, and hang them up in the tree, and then they will for the most part leave us. A friend does the same thing with his filbert orchard, but with the bluejays. Those birds are smart.
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[square1]

Pallets

 

[smstonypoint]

Pallets

Do you own property in New Jersey?

Steve

 

[oosik]

We have crows & ravens. They are not a problem here. The only ones I ever see are always being driven off by the black birds & king birds.

 

[Bird]

I don't think I've ever heard of crows being protected by law. I can remember when, in the mid-50s, extensive efforts were made to kill as many of them as possible, at least in Oklahoma around Marlow. Of course at that time their numbers were mind boggling. In fact, I saw things that I'd probably not believe if I hadn't seen them with my own eyes. I've seen many flocks of birds of different varieties, but NEVER numbers that would rival the number of crows we had back then.

 

[MortalWombat]

Wow, Never dreamed a nuisance would be protected.

As far as I know, it's also illegal to shoot door-to-door solicitors, so yeah.

 

[oldballs]

My Dad and I hunted crows for sport in the 40's by hiding in the rip-rap along the Missouri river. We were on their return flight path as they came in to their bottomland roost. We got lots of passing shots that way. I was told that one could unload a pile of gravel amidst the roost area, load the base with dynamite and then set it off at night to take out much of the colony. But that's not on topic here. Now, in my immediate area, the crows seem to nest in the hedgerow some years and other years they nest elsewhere But I never see thousands in a roost like I did as a kid. All of nature is seen in farming/gardening......The Coons, opossums, squirrels, the drought, the hail, the rain the weeds and bugs etc. Crows are just another one that come and go. And "Yes", it is hard to believe that they are a protected species....maybe Crabgrass will be the next such species.