Crows

[maxxi]

Anyone who saw the start of the birds of prey display at Dulwich Park festival last Sunday will remember the first two birds that the old-chap-in-charge put up, a kind of Falcon and a Harris Hawk I think, having a run in with a couple of crows. "They could see off those two crows any time they liked" asserted our Falconer - but to the untutored eye the crows seemed to be giving as good as they got if not better.

Always liked crows, and magpies (though if I see a singleton I still salute it - about the only superstition I can't shed...)

[RosieH]

Mighty purty feathers on a crow.

Incidentally, I'm looking for a stuffed one if anyone's a taxidermist...

[Annette Curtain]

woodrot Wrote:

> >enough of the poor cat platitudes please. Its

> vomit inducing.

Yeah

Get real people

http://www.yorkshirecnd.org.uk/components/com_virtuemart/shop_image/product/Vintage__Cat_Lov_4a3b8ea2854b1.jpg

:-$

[RosieH]

Cats kill birds. Fact.

[woodrot]

DulwichFox Wrote:

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> Lambs killed by Ravens / Crows in Scotland...

>

> Article

>

> Quite capable of taking on a cat or small dog..

>

> Hopefully not a Fox..:'(

>

> Foxy

That article is keek Im afriad - the crows do feed on the placenta and gubbins connected with birthing, but to suggest that they kill lambs is a fabication. Like a mistle thrush, a crow will attack anything, regardless of size, in order to protect its young - this is not the same thing.

"But gamekeepers want protection of Britain's largest species of crow to be removed completely"

vermin indeed.

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[woodrot]

time to get the crows tooled up to hit back at the cat scum that lurk on our streets

[Jenjeroo]

yeah get a falconer to come fly his birds around your garden one afternoon. it works for pigeons.

[Dulwichmudlark]

Air gun should do it crows are pest so with in the law to hunt

[Loz]

Jenjeroo Wrote:

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> yeah get a falconer to come fly his birds around your garden one afternoon. it works for pigeons.

With any luck it may work for cats as well.

Leave the wildlife alone.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

well, someone has to say it:

STONE THE CROWS!

[Sue]

Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote:

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> well, someone has to say it:

>

> STONE THE CROWS!

xxxxxx

Sorry PGC, somebody already did, on the first page :))

Though not in capital letters .....

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Bottoms. I was sober too. Must stop speed reading.

[Annette Curtain]

dulwichbeekeeper Wrote:

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> Air gun should do it crows are pest so with in the

> law to hunt

OK so let's imagine the scenario.

Cat mooching along street & crow flies down (you at the upstairs window with gun on the sill)

"Kerr-Pow-wizzzz" (coz you're an expert shot, right!) as air gun pellets ricochet off into street somewhere

Or you somehow do shoot said crow (and they're a tuff old bird btw) and maim the thing. So you rush down onto the street and then what ?

Oh yeah, kill the thing with your bare hands, or whack it with a shovel.

In a busy-urban-environment

Possibly within minutes this lot SO19 will turn up & shoot you, or if you're lucky taser you to near death.

For a cat & a crow ?

:-S

[Barry Road Barbers]

Can crows fart?

[BrandNewGuy]

Probably not, as farting requires an anal sphincter. An avian cloaca does have a circular muscle, but not a sphincter, so any internal gas would simply leak out when produced rather than be expelled rapidly in fartian bursts.

Hope that helps ;-)

[Loz]

When I heard this thread was talking about some bird's arse, this wasn't what I expected.

[grecian girl]

I know ..not wanting to crow but this

Thread is amazing. *goes off down LL to

Buy an organic scarecrow*

[Muley]

Lets see if we can turn the crows and the foxes against each other. Whichever side emerges victorious from that can take on the clowns.

Divide and conquer...

[maxxi]

The foxes and cats wouldn't stand a chance if the crows got tooled up...

 

[woodrot]

Annette Curtain Wrote:

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> dulwichbeekeeper Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > Air gun should do it crows are pest so with in

> the

> > law to hunt

>

> OK so let's imagine the scenario.

>

> Cat mooching along street & crow flies down (you

> at the upstairs window with gun on the sill)

>

> "Kerr-Pow-wizzzz" (coz you're an expert shot,

> right!) as air gun pellets ricochet off into

> street somewhere

>

> Or you somehow do shoot said crow (and they're a

> tuff old bird btw) and maim the thing. So you rush

> down onto the street and then what ?

>

> Oh yeah, kill the thing with your bare hands, or

> whack it with a shovel.

>

> In a busy-urban-environment

>

> Possibly within minutes this lot SO19 will turn up

> & shoot you, or if you're lucky taser you to near

> death.

>

> For a cat & a crow ?

>

>

> :-S

SO19 only shoot people who dont have guns Im afraid. Its called Dicks law, named after the fragrant Cressidia Dick of the met.

[RosieH]

I'd be rather more worried that she'd miss the crow and hit the cat.

I mean, I say worried...

[Loz]

'Worried' as in 'no one there to video it and upload it YouTube so we can all laugh at them' worried?

[Annette Curtain]

woodrot Wrote:

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> Annette Curtain Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > dulwichbeekeeper Wrote:

> >

> --------------------------------------------------

>

> > -----

> > > Air gun should do it crows are pest so with

> in

> > the

> > > law to hunt

> >

> > OK so let's imagine the scenario.

> >

> > Cat mooching along street & crow flies down

> (you

> > at the upstairs window with gun on the sill)

> >

> > "Kerr-Pow-wizzzz" (coz you're an expert shot,

> > right!) as air gun pellets ricochet off into

> > street somewhere

> >

> > Or you somehow do shoot said crow (and they're

> a

> > tuff old bird btw) and maim the thing. So you

> rush

> > down onto the street and then what ?

> >

> > Oh yeah, kill the thing with your bare hands,

> or

> > whack it with a shovel.

> >

> > In a busy-urban-environment

> >

> > Possibly within minutes this lot SO19 will turn

> up

> > & shoot you, or if you're lucky taser you to

> near

> > death.

> >

> > For a cat & a crow ?

> >

> >

> > :-S

>

>

>

> SO19 only shoot people who dont have guns Im

> afraid. Its called Dicks law, named after the

> fragrant Cressidia Dick of the met.

Yes agree

But in the later part of the scenario she/he's armed only with a shovel

So, ripe for slug from SO19http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/MP5A3_Marinir.jpg/300px-MP5A3_Marinir.jpg < POW... you're dead

[Alan Medic]

If you really want to understand crows read 'The Truth about Crows' by Robin Hasben. Amazing story about how he was a crow in a previous lifetime and gives an insight into how a crow thinks, like no other so called expert.

[Salsaboy]

Can you eat crows? And if so, do they make you fart?