Crows ,,,,,,,,lots of them - The 1947 - Present Chevrolet & GMC Truck Message Board Network

**GOPAPA** · 01-09-2019, 10:16 AM

The Crows have been landing here for a few years now.. ,, in the Thousands and why I do not know ,,or where from ,I do not know , they land in the streets by the hundreds and seem to be eating small pieces of rock, grit and/or gravel, for their Gullet or Gizzard .. they get on our roofs and peck away at the sand in the roofing ,they poop all over while flying and it gets on the side of our houses..

One more thing that is puzzling is that they used to come to a town close by us and just in the last few years they skip that town and visit ours ,,whats with that ?

anyone else have this problem?

**mongocanfly** · 01-09-2019, 11:28 AM

Maybe you need a sign...

**slomotion** · 01-09-2019, 01:31 PM

Cool signs Mongo!

Gopapa, crows are pretty intelligent. If one "walks in the way of a pellet or flying piece of lead" his demise, (if he's displayed on a stick or something in the yard) may discourage the flock from visiting your neighborhood.
On the other hand, they may congregate en-mass and you may be the new version of Hitchcock's "The Birds"

**kwmech** · 01-09-2019, 02:04 PM

BB gun?

**slomotion** · 01-09-2019, 02:12 PM

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Originally Posted by kwmech

BB gun?

They're pretty tough. Better to dispatch one completely than to just make him qualify for workman's comp or cripple him. If he knows who launched the lead he may tell his friends and the situation could deteriorate pretty quickly.

**GOPAPA** · 01-09-2019, 02:33 PM

I cannot shoot them as I have houses across the street from me ,, and if you go out close to them, they fly up and back down and then after awhile they fly away,,

Acually ,,they only come in groups like this a couple times a season and then they find a place where ever they go and then come back around in 2's ... I cannot tell how much sand off the roof they take when ,,say 50 of then peck for 20 minutes and leave ,,and again that is when they first come..

I was just curious if any of you knew what these big black birds are thinking when picking our town over another town ,, I have heard they are pretty smart ..

If so,, maybe they can read and I will tell a neighbor some guy off the truck forum says put up a sign,, like above ^^^

**mongocanfly** · 01-09-2019, 02:59 PM

I know crows are smart....maybe not reading smart but smart none the less....
I have a pecan tree out by the road...the nuts on this tree have a very hard shell...every yr I watch crows take those nuts and drop them all over the rd and wait for cars to run over them to bustem open....

**Stocker** · 01-09-2019, 04:25 PM

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Originally Posted by mongocanfly

I know crows are smart....maybe not reading smart but smart none the less....
I have a pecan tree out by the road...the nuts on this tree have a very hard shell...every yr I watch crows take those nuts and drop them all over the rd and wait for cars to run over them to bustem open....

Yup, we have the same thing with ravens (largest member of the crow family) dropping black walnuts on the streets. Black walnut shells are much thicker & tougher than english walnuts.
Have also seen ravens ganging up on & harassing redtail hawks many times, not sure what that's all about. Territory I suppose.

**mongocanfly** · 01-09-2019, 05:37 PM

I think the harassing may be be cause it's a bird of prey.....I see hawks harrassed all the time.....the other day I saw a bald eagle catch a full grown coon...all the same time there was about a dozen crows dive bombing him only to pull out at the last minute....he didnt pay em any mind..

**GOPAPA** · 01-09-2019, 06:17 PM

From all you have shared ,,then it must be what they like to eat and can find in our town than the one they left from a couple years and came here ,, and another thing that comes to mind after you all reminded me is that maybe all the new development that is going on here in Idaho with all the Californians moving here ,,,Is .this,,, a lot of farms are being sold to Developers for new homes and just maybe the town that the Crows are skipping over might of been pecans or somthing else the crows like that is not there anymore..

yuccales · 01-09-2019, 09:18 PM

Look out....

**slomotion** · 01-09-2019, 10:07 PM

You guy's know a group of crows is called a "murder" right?

pritch · 01-10-2019, 12:24 AM

They know how to get help, too:

https://youtu.be/hlwxLtFQcrY

vetnat · 01-10-2019, 12:30 AM

Neat video.

**A1971Blazer** · 01-10-2019, 08:27 AM

you hardly ever see a crow run over on the road....this is because while the group is on feasting on roadkill....one sits in the tree and watches...it sees a car coming and starts yelling CA...CA...CA....!

68panelman · 01-10-2019, 08:47 AM

Sounds more like a flock of Grackles,
In the same family but smaller.
My old home on Long island NY we had them every fall and spring and if your grass had grubs, you'd be left with a torn up lawn. When they were in the yard, I would quietly open the door, then slam it shut, then whoosh, they were off to a neighbor's yard.

**slomotion** · 01-10-2019, 09:41 AM

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Originally Posted by 68panelman

Sounds more like a flock of Grackles,......... we had them every fall and spring and if your grass had grubs, you'd be left with a torn up lawn..............

That'd be a tough decision....I think I'd suffer a torn up yard to get rid of the grubs......

JON67 · 01-10-2019, 09:48 AM

what do you call two crows on a branch?.........

....Attempted Murder.

68panelman · 01-10-2019, 10:02 AM

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Originally Posted by slomotion

That'd be a tough decision....I think I'd suffer a torn up yard to get rid of the grubs......

Exactly, and it's partially rototilled!

**GOPAPA** · 01-10-2019, 10:03 AM

lots of fun information there fella's ,,thx,,didnt know all of it ,

Here is something I just found out on the Crow birds when looking up how to get rid of them..that made me think about the movie called "The Birds"

American crows: the ultimate angry birds?
Crows remember the faces of humans who have threatened or harmed them, and these memories last for the bird's lifetime (probably). Crows scold dangerous people and bring in family members and even strangers into the mob. Naïve crows exposed to mobs learn to identify the dangerous person, and they associate that individual's face with danger and react accordingly.

blazer2007 · 01-10-2019, 10:11 AM

The crows will remember you if you harass them and they will harass you up to three years or so, they have good memory

In The Ten Ring · 01-10-2019, 01:44 PM

My dad adopted an orphaned crow and it lived on the farm with the chickens. It was a great pet according to my father.

When it came time to release the orphaned squirrels I had adopted and raised back in 2005-2006, a hawk landed in the neighbor's tree and worried me something awful! All of a sudden, as if in answer to my prayers, a crow buzzed the hawk and ran it off. Thus, I see crows as a sort of "neighborhood police."

My father (sometimes I do it) feed the neighborhood crows every morning.

Crows are among the smartest birds and can recognize human faces.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOkj7lJpeoc

They also may "gift" people that feed them. Crows have an eye for shiny objects and they may bring trinkets and leave them for people that feed them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dg3ApNJct6Q

Pet crow:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81y2SDoBZAc

rpmerf · 01-10-2019, 07:56 PM

Crow Wars. Kinda NSFW (language).

https://imgur.com/gallery/WBvyq

**special-K** · 01-10-2019, 09:35 PM

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what do you call two crows on a branch?......

Heckle & Jeckle

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http://youtu.be/zBUlwt_EIsI

Ok, magpies. But I thought they were crows when I was a kid

**slomotion** · 01-10-2019, 10:14 PM

Showing your age there Tim!

01-09-2019, 10:16 AM	#1
GOPAPA "Tail Gate Best Seat In House" Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Nampa Idaho Posts: 7,429	Crows ,,,,,,,,lots of them The Crows have been landing here for a few years now.. ,, in the Thousands and why I do not know ,,or where from ,I do not know , they land in the streets by the hundreds and seem to be eating small pieces of rock, grit and/or gravel, for their Gullet or Gizzard .. they get on our roofs and peck away at the sand in the roofing ,they poop all over while flying and it gets on the side of our houses.. One more thing that is puzzling is that they used to come to a town close by us and just in the last few years they skip that town and visit ours ,,whats with that ? anyone else have this problem? __________________ When you learn a thing a day you store up smart.

01-09-2019, 11:28 AM	#2
mongocanfly Post Whore Join Date: May 2015 Location: Alabama Posts: 14,608	Re: Crows ,,,,,,,,lots of them Maybe you need a sign... Attached Images __________________ Mongo...aka Greg RIP Dad RIP Jesse 1981 C30 LQ9 NV4500..http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=753598 Mongos AD- LS3 TR6060...http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...34#post8522334 Columbus..the 1957 IH 4x4...http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...63#post8082563 2023 Chevy Z71..daily driver

01-09-2019, 01:31 PM	#3
slomotion Old Duffer Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Maine Posts: 1,821	Re: Crows ,,,,,,,,lots of them Cool signs Mongo! Gopapa, crows are pretty intelligent. If one "walks in the way of a pellet or flying piece of lead" his demise, (if he's displayed on a stick or something in the yard) may discourage the flock from visiting your neighborhood. On the other hand, they may congregate en-mass and you may be the new version of Hitchcock's "The Birds" __________________ '68 Short C20 Flatbed Dually w/ 292 4bbl, Langdon cast headers, and WC T5 trans. '81 G10 Shorty Van "Good judgement comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgement." Will Rogers "Under promise, then over achieve."

01-09-2019, 02:04 PM	#4
kwmech Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Colfax-California Posts: 8,451	Re: Crows ,,,,,,,,lots of them BB gun?

01-09-2019, 02:33 PM	#6
GOPAPA "Tail Gate Best Seat In House" Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Nampa Idaho Posts: 7,429	Re: Crows ,,,,,,,,lots of them I cannot shoot them as I have houses across the street from me ,, and if you go out close to them, they fly up and back down and then after awhile they fly away,, Acually ,,they only come in groups like this a couple times a season and then they find a place where ever they go and then come back around in 2's ... I cannot tell how much sand off the roof they take when ,,say 50 of then peck for 20 minutes and leave ,,and again that is when they first come.. I was just curious if any of you knew what these big black birds are thinking when picking our town over another town ,, I have heard they are pretty smart .. If so,, maybe they can read and I will tell a neighbor some guy off the truck forum says put up a sign,, like above ^^^ __________________ When you learn a thing a day you store up smart.

01-09-2019, 02:59 PM	#7
mongocanfly Post Whore Join Date: May 2015 Location: Alabama Posts: 14,608	Re: Crows ,,,,,,,,lots of them I know crows are smart....maybe not reading smart but smart none the less.... I have a pecan tree out by the road...the nuts on this tree have a very hard shell...every yr I watch crows take those nuts and drop them all over the rd and wait for cars to run over them to bustem open.... __________________ Mongo...aka Greg RIP Dad RIP Jesse 1981 C30 LQ9 NV4500..http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=753598 Mongos AD- LS3 TR6060...http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...34#post8522334 Columbus..the 1957 IH 4x4...http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...63#post8082563 2023 Chevy Z71..daily driver

01-09-2019, 05:37 PM	#9
mongocanfly Post Whore Join Date: May 2015 Location: Alabama Posts: 14,608	Re: Crows ,,,,,,,,lots of them I think the harassing may be be cause it's a bird of prey.....I see hawks harrassed all the time.....the other day I saw a bald eagle catch a full grown coon...all the same time there was about a dozen crows dive bombing him only to pull out at the last minute....he didnt pay em any mind.. __________________ Mongo...aka Greg RIP Dad RIP Jesse 1981 C30 LQ9 NV4500..http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=753598 Mongos AD- LS3 TR6060...http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...34#post8522334 Columbus..the 1957 IH 4x4...http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...63#post8082563 2023 Chevy Z71..daily driver

01-09-2019, 06:17 PM	#10
GOPAPA "Tail Gate Best Seat In House" Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Nampa Idaho Posts: 7,429	Re: Crows ,,,,,,,,lots of them From all you have shared ,,then it must be what they like to eat and can find in our town than the one they left from a couple years and came here ,, and another thing that comes to mind after you all reminded me is that maybe all the new development that is going on here in Idaho with all the Californians moving here ,,,Is .this,,, a lot of farms are being sold to Developers for new homes and just maybe the town that the Crows are skipping over might of been pecans or somthing else the crows like that is not there anymore.. __________________ When you learn a thing a day you store up smart.

01-09-2019, 09:18 PM	#11
yuccales Registered User Join Date: May 2011 Location: Northern Calif. Posts: 3,633	Re: Crows ,,,,,,,,lots of them Look out.... Attached Images

01-09-2019, 10:07 PM	#12
slomotion Old Duffer Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Maine Posts: 1,821	Re: Crows ,,,,,,,,lots of them You guy's know a group of crows is called a "murder" right? __________________ '68 Short C20 Flatbed Dually w/ 292 4bbl, Langdon cast headers, and WC T5 trans. '81 G10 Shorty Van "Good judgement comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgement." Will Rogers "Under promise, then over achieve."

01-10-2019, 12:24 AM	#13
pritch Registered User Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Hoytsville, Utah Posts: 3,365	Re: Crows ,,,,,,,,lots of them They know how to get help, too: https://youtu.be/hlwxLtFQcrY __________________ '68 Panel Project Boogie Chillin' '68 C-10 Ol' Green

01-10-2019, 12:30 AM	#14
vetnat Registered User Join Date: Jun 2015 Location: Moose Jaw, SK Posts: 510	Re: Crows ,,,,,,,,lots of them Neat video. __________________ 1961 GMC half ton, short step, Canadian model. Just starting work on it.

01-10-2019, 08:27 AM	#15
A1971Blazer Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2013 Location: East Tennessee Posts: 2,121	Re: Crows ,,,,,,,,lots of them you hardly ever see a crow run over on the road....this is because while the group is on feasting on roadkill....one sits in the tree and watches...it sees a car coming and starts yelling CA...CA...CA....! __________________ 1967 C10 Step side 1968 C10 Step side 1970 Chevrolet K/5 Blazer 1972 Chevrolet K/5 Blazer .............

01-10-2019, 08:47 AM	#16
68panelman Registered User Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Delaware and Long Island, New York Posts: 3,455	Re: Crows ,,,,,,,,lots of them Sounds more like a flock of Grackles, In the same family but smaller. My old home on Long island NY we had them every fall and spring and if your grass had grubs, you'd be left with a torn up lawn. When they were in the yard, I would quietly open the door, then slam it shut, then whoosh, they were off to a neighbor's yard. Attached Images

01-10-2019, 09:48 AM	#18
JON67 Lootie Stole My Truck Join Date: May 2001 Location: Mountlake Terrace WA USA Posts: 822	Re: Crows ,,,,,,,,lots of them what do you call two crows on a branch?......... ....Attempted Murder.



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01-10-2019, 10:03 AM	#20
GOPAPA "Tail Gate Best Seat In House" Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Nampa Idaho Posts: 7,429	Re: Crows ,,,,,,,,lots of them lots of fun information there fella's ,,thx,,didnt know all of it , Here is something I just found out on the Crow birds when looking up how to get rid of them..that made me think about the movie called "The Birds" American crows: the ultimate angry birds? Crows remember the faces of humans who have threatened or harmed them, and these memories last for the bird's lifetime (probably). Crows scold dangerous people and bring in family members and even strangers into the mob. Naïve crows exposed to mobs learn to identify the dangerous person, and they associate that individual's face with danger and react accordingly. __________________ When you learn a thing a day you store up smart.

01-10-2019, 10:11 AM	#21
blazer2007 Registered User Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: vernon b.c. Posts: 3,022	Re: Crows ,,,,,,,,lots of them The crows will remember you if you harass them and they will harass you up to three years or so, they have good memory

01-10-2019, 01:44 PM	#22
In The Ten Ring Registered User Join Date: Jun 2013 Location: West Virginia Posts: 6,421	Re: Crows ,,,,,,,,lots of them My dad adopted an orphaned crow and it lived on the farm with the chickens. It was a great pet according to my father. When it came time to release the orphaned squirrels I had adopted and raised back in 2005-2006, a hawk landed in the neighbor's tree and worried me something awful! All of a sudden, as if in answer to my prayers, a crow buzzed the hawk and ran it off. Thus, I see crows as a sort of "neighborhood police." My father (sometimes I do it) feed the neighborhood crows every morning. Crows are among the smartest birds and can recognize human faces. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOkj7lJpeoc They also may "gift" people that feed them. Crows have an eye for shiny objects and they may bring trinkets and leave them for people that feed them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dg3ApNJct6Q Pet crow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81y2SDoBZAc

01-10-2019, 07:56 PM	#23
rpmerf Registered User Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Parkville, MD Posts: 1,024	Re: Crows ,,,,,,,,lots of them Crow Wars. Kinda NSFW (language). https://imgur.com/gallery/WBvyq __________________ 1970 C20 Custom Camper - 350, TH350 1997 GMC Suburban 1994 Acura Integra GSR 1987 Dodge Daytona Shelby Z

01-10-2019, 10:14 PM	#25
slomotion Old Duffer Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Maine Posts: 1,821	Re: Crows ,,,,,,,,lots of them Showing your age there Tim! __________________ '68 Short C20 Flatbed Dually w/ 292 4bbl, Langdon cast headers, and WC T5 trans. '81 G10 Shorty Van "Good judgement comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgement." Will Rogers "Under promise, then over achieve."

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