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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...)

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woodrot

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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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Loz

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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.

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Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote:

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> well, someone has to say it:

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> STONE THE CROWS!


xxxxxx


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


Though not in capital letters .....

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Annette Curtain

Annette Curtain

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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

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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.

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Annette Curtain

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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

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