Hi All, has anyone got any good advice on scaring away crows? they’re driving me nuts…apart from stealing chook food they are constantly raiding my vegie garden. Not to mention the early Sunday morning wake up calls that are soooo annoying.
Has anyone tried holographic flash tape that reflects and twirls around in the breeze?
Muschee said:
Hi All, has anyone got any good advice on scaring away crows? they’re driving me nuts…apart from stealing chook food they are constantly raiding my vegie garden. Not to mention the early Sunday morning wake up calls that are soooo annoying.
Has anyone tried holographic flash tape that reflects and twirls around in the breeze?
You are never going to scare a crow off with something shiny and flashy.. better off setting up a dummy playpen somewhere further away from your garden.
roughbarked said:
Muschee said:
Hi All, has anyone got any good advice on scaring away crows? they’re driving me nuts…apart from stealing chook food they are constantly raiding my vegie garden. Not to mention the early Sunday morning wake up calls that are soooo annoying.
Has anyone tried holographic flash tape that reflects and twirls around in the breeze?
You are never going to scare a crow off with something shiny and flashy.. better off setting up a dummy playpen somewhere further away from your garden.
while Crows fly o’er my backyard, they rarely frequent it. But I now have a similar problem with White Ibis. They know where the poultry food is, and where the poultry water bowls are. I chase them and throw tennis balls at them and it maybe working, I didn’t notice them yesterday…
Muschee said:
Hi All, has anyone got any good advice on scaring away crows? they’re driving me nuts…apart from stealing chook food they are constantly raiding my vegie garden. Not to mention the early Sunday morning wake up calls that are soooo annoying.
Has anyone tried holographic flash tape that reflects and twirls around in the breeze?
We’ve got plenty of them but they annoy the miner birds more than they do us. They have reduced our miner bird population noticeably. Maybe we’ll want advice when the miners are all gone too.
is the universe saying, learn to love your crows? :)
I like crows.
bubba louie said:
I like crows.
mostly ravens..
love shiny stuff.. so give thm some to play wiith.. and lead them away to a new playground.
roughbarked said:
bubba louie said:
I like crows.
mostly ravens..
love shiny stuff.. so give thm some to play wiith.. and lead them away to a new playground.
Not up here. Torresian Crows.
bubba louie said:
roughbarked said:
bubba louie said:
I like crows.
mostly ravens..
love shiny stuff.. so give thm some to play wiith.. and lead them away to a new playground.
Not up here. Torresian Crows.
OK.. well, do they like shiny things?
bubba louie said:
I like crows.
I like them too but that “arr arr arr” can drive you nuts if they don’t give it a rest now and again.
at the old place there were a pair of ravens that must have nested nearby as they were regular visitors to my yard. Apart from stealing the odd egg and leaving soggy bread in the bird bath they were no trouble. After many years and just before I left it had gotten to the point where they didn’t automatically fly away if I was outside, but accepted me as part of the environment. I felt privileged.
OK.. well, do they like shiny things
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Can’t say I’ve noticed.
bubba louie said:
OK.. well, do they like shiny things———————————-
Can’t say I’ve noticed.
well, it is time you experimented.
Every now and then we find an old lead head roofing nail in the swimming pool. The only place they could be coming from is the house guttering, where some lazy roofer let them fall.
Mr BLs theory is that the crows drop them there.
Thanks everone for your input.
I’ve strung some old vcr tape around in the hope it might keep em away from the veg garden…
I guess i’ll just keep trying different things and see what works best
Muschee said:
Hi All, has anyone got any good advice on scaring away crows? they’re driving me nuts…apart from stealing chook food they are constantly raiding my vegie garden. Not to mention the early Sunday morning wake up calls that are soooo annoying.
Has anyone tried holographic flash tape that reflects and twirls around in the breeze?
Probably not good advice, but.. :)
Our last family dog got it into her head that crows were after her meals (I think because they often came and looked in the kitchen window at the time of day when her dinner was being prepared). She was quite selective about chasing off crows in particular, not other birds! I don’t think it’s really a positive trait to have in a dog, but it was effective!
I’m using this because I can’t find Pomolo’s Backyard Birds thread…
The baby crow may be no more, the vet was sceptical that the wing would ever be good enough to allow the tyke back into the wild. The mother is still staring hopefully at the Maternity Ward, I think it must have been the only nestling…
I think I still have silver-eyes, what do they eat? Not sure if they’re looking at the plentiful water I have put out on the tankstand (this is about 4 metres off the ground…just off our back deck) or if they’re looking at the peeled apple quarters that pulled up the lorikeets…
Got my spot for the mid-afternoon sprinkler picked out, this is in deep shade thanks to the concrete tank and there is plenty of branches etc, on the ground, for them to dive in from…