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There's a bloody crow that sits atop my neighbours bungalow and caws incessantly from about 0430hrs every day. I am a light sleeper and I like to have my windows open at night so this bird is really beginning to be a pain in the backside. I have an air rifle but am fully aware of the illegality of shooting the sod so my question is how do I stop it?
Close the windows?
Beautiful isn't it!Originally Posted by Puntsdog
It's one of the joys of being alive IMO, the sounds of nature, you'll miss it when you're gone.
It'll move on and find somebody else to annoy in due course I'm sure.
catapult with loose gravel?
Are you sure it's not a rook? We get rooks with their young in the garden every morning at much the same time. I total pain in the whatsit. This is why, for the last few months, I've been getting up at 4:30-5am and going on the rowing machine. Means I'm often at work for 7am but then I try to skive off at 3.
Anyway not much you can do about it I'm afraid. The catapult was an interesting idea.
butt plugs
think i'd rather put up with the crow making a racket
Interesting suggestion but I doubt you would achieve the required accuracy.
Shoot it then go and get rid of the evidence before your neighbour wakes up. 😊
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I'm coming round to thar way of thinking. My neighbour owns a Chinese Takeaway so maybe they'll dispose of it for me...
Crows are Rooks; a Rook is a Crow. Don't know how accurate that is but the rooks that come to feed in my garden come en masse, whereas crows are supposed to be solitary birds.
I said 'come' but for the past week or so they have been noticeable by their absence. My dog Russell says he thinks they've all gone to Bridlington (on scooters) to have a gang fight with the seagulls. What does he know, he voted Brexit.
It won't be cheap...I was looking for silent (ultrasonic) bird scarers and found this: link, that contains a link to one model and some discussion of the difficulties it might cause.
I'd be grateful it's not Seagulls dancing on your roof at 5am or dive bombing your back garden. That does get irritating.
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk/silhouette/index.htm
Print the middle silhouette - cut out some black cardboard or vinyl whatever (waterproof)
Attach to the guttering or dangle from aerial - it moves.
These I found quickly but there are better ones - I bought one from an antique shop that was a wind vane and when it spins it sort of hisses ( and it's much bigger )
Keep the gun in the cupboard if i were you :-)
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Put some Crow type snacks in your garden, when it pops over to feed shoot it then.
Not Kia-Ora though apparently
Be prepared to shoot lots of crows. Kill that one and another will, presumably move in to fill it's place.
You could just share the planet with it's other residents of course.
Yes... I heard the same re. solitary birds.
http://www.rspb.org.uk/community/wil...27/451849.aspx
What is Werzel Gummidge said... something about 'if there be more than one then them be rooks'?
Larsen trap works every time for me. Best I don't show you mine in action or it will be death by a thousand handbags for me...........................
Have a look at them on YouTube, not for the faint hearted.
Thanks for that... very useful. Ours are definitely rooks (pale beak) in the early morning.
Natures way of waking you up.
Enjoy it.
It's a great alternative to noisy traffic.
Something tells me he won't even be aware of it when he's gone
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That's a bit harsh. I like birdsong, I'm just not so keen on cawing.
Hire a fancy dress owl outfit, dress up in it and strut up and down your garden making 'cawing' noises, first thing in the morning and again at lunchtime
(Post a video on here so that we can see how you get on)
It wasn't there this morning. There I was dressed as an owl and cawing whilst foil silhouettes danced from my facial. My ear plugs were in and my rifle loaded with catapult shot and the thing just didn't show. How disappointing?
Clever things Crows / Rooks / corvids... Probably a member on here and did the off......
Have you considered ice cream?
I do like a bit of Captain Beefheart.
Crows are wonderful birds - highly intelligent. Indeed recent research shows they may be as intelligent as many primates. They are sociable, problem solving, and even exhibit emotion.
Just read this on the kindness of crows:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-31795681
So clever my foot fell off.
Excellent link - thanks
Yeah, but did you have the b*tt plugs in? If not, that's the problem right there. You've got to be fully 'tooled up' for these jobs.
What, both plugs?
Well I guess it would help with the owl like gait
Owl like gait? I'm not sure I have ever see or even seen video of, an owl walking.
https://youtu.be/gaZZ44EEOsI
:-)
A friend of mine in the States, her Brother has a Crow as a pet, it lives in his house, as smart as a Parrot apparently !
A different species, I'm afraid: Pigeon interrupts play at Lord's.
Then there's Bird or Bat!
I wonder how the OP would get on in the mornings if he had this lot in his back garden: Australian Mapie videos.
It's a good job somebody loves them...
Yes, thats what I had in mind
When we lived in North Sydney a kookaburra used to regularly land on our bedroom balcony at well before 5am and wake us up with his manic calling. If it wasn't him it was a flock of paraqueets. We were told the previous occupant of our apartment used to feed all these birds so our balcony was a favourite spot. Didn't really bother me, I like weird birds (should see my wife).
Oh, how amusing you are.Larsen trap works every time for me. Best I don't show you mine in action or it will be death by a thousand handbags for me...........................
Have a look at them on YouTube, not for the faint hearted.
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