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LYNDILOU
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 Posted - 30 Jun 2008 : 1:58:06 PM
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the swallos have graced us with their wonderful presence  and now the s... ing crows are back too, they wait for the fledglings to start to fly then just pick them off one by one, I keep going out there chasing them off, but nearly every year they get the babies 
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Goldenmane
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Posted - 30 Jun 2008 : 2:14:30 PM
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| Snap!I try to love all animals but crows are very hard to even like!! |
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polly
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Posted - 30 Jun 2008 : 2:36:54 PM
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We have a falconer living in one of the farm cottages and she brings home a Perigrine/Perlin/Goshawk and places them on a stand in the garden.............and all the crows/magpies/jackdaws disapear...its eerie, really silent.My white doves hang out inside the barn...v-e-r-y- q-u-i-e-t-l-y 
The small birds seem to ignore it as they can't see it from the stables were they all nest, and the parents fly in and out the yard happily. it gives the babies a head start |
   
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rosyw
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Posted - 30 Jun 2008 : 2:43:23 PM
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| We've got masses of the wretched things here can't stand them, hate to say it but I felt quite pleased to see one of them had managed to drown itself in one of the water troughs the other day, even though I had to empty, clean and refill it! and the flipping jackdaws are nesting in my chimney |
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LYNDILOU
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Kirsty5278
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Posted - 30 Jun 2008 : 6:57:00 PM
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they are 'orrible things and the magpies.... they fly around my field terrorizing ever nest in the area... my wee lass has taken great offence to them and shoos them away....
found a dead magpie in a bucket of water yesterday.... poor thing, at least its one less nasty though! |
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LYNDILOU
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 01 Jul 2008 : 12:12:16 PM
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| I have left a radio up next to the stable where the nest is in the hopes that the crows will stay away, I am fed up with chasing them, blinking things they know the nest is there and they are just waiting to take the babies, oh I cant stand it ! |
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rosyw
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Posted - 01 Jul 2008 : 12:17:36 PM
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| Nasty things actually got a young pigeon a couple of days ago, I found it ripped to bits by the hedge our cat doesn't go out (her choice) so it wasn't her, and the other neighbourhood cats don't come into our garden. We seem to have more & more crows, and fewer of everything else |
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LYNDILOU
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nicolanapper
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Posted - 01 Jul 2008 : 7:02:27 PM
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Sounds like I need to send one of my boys up Lynda, with an air rifle and they can pick the buggers off!!!! I hate crows, we too have swallows nesting in the stables, luckily ours all survive and fly the next safely!!!
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LYNDILOU
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Offira
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Posted - 02 Jul 2008 : 3:48:53 PM
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| I had a drowned crow in my water trough yesterday - I thought it odd that a big bird like that would drown. I also have jackdaws nesting in my chimney - they throw bits of moss at me as I walk past (its a bungalow by the way). Ruddy cheek. |
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LYNDILOU
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Posted - 02 Jul 2008 : 5:27:11 PM
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Lol ,I can just imagine it
unfortunately I think the swallows have gone as since yesterday when I put the radio outside the stable I hadn't seen them back, ( and the crows have gone too) so I went and looked at the nest, all was queit so I stood on top of the shavings bales and put my hand inside, and there were two cold eggs I think I may have frightened them off with the radio , although it was meant to frighten off the crows , silly me thinking that I can frighten off one type of bird without frightening off the others ! |
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purdeysue
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Posted - 02 Jul 2008 : 6:08:38 PM
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We have the same problem round here Lynda,I know not everybody likes the idea of bumping a few off, but OH has, 24 jackdaws, 3 crows & 3 magpies, so far in a 'larsen trap'. And there are still flocks of the b*ggers |
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and prop it up outside the stable where the nest is it may work .... 
