I believe it must be a testament to the intelligence of crows that there were, for the first time this summer, no crows outside my bedroom window in the early morning hours. Obviously, they are capable of reading and are planning a fall back strategy. Our local paper, yesterday, had a front page story on the proposed 'crow cull' for our fair community. I read with surprise and delight that this sort of thing is even contemplated in this day of animal rights and environmental preservationists. The expanding crow population is becoming a concern, not only because of the racket they make that renders alarm clocks useless, but they tend to be very hard on the population of other birds. We have witnessed crow murder of small birds in our own little garden and it is distressing to be quite helpless as it takes place.
As a young lad, I owned a well used .22 calibre rifle and did my best to eliminate as many crows as I could. This action was sanctioned by the town in which I lived as there was a bounty on crows. I am so in favour of this cull that I would gladly pay the city just to take part in it. Crows are intelligent and wily, and that is why they survive so well. But they are not content to feed on McDonald's scraps by the roadside, they much prefer to rob the nests of Robins and small song birds. Every time I hear the guttural and obnoxious feeding sounds, I picture the mother crow stuffing an infant Nut Hatch or House Finch down the throat of her spawn. This must come to an end. It is not often that I fully endorse an initiative from our city council.
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Twice in the last month I have seen crows dive bombing either an eagle or hawk. I didn't realize this was becoming such a huge problem. I'm all for killing a couple of 'em!
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