Thanks, I’m just not that concerned about it really. If it had been squirrels or crows, then I’d have just “walk[ed] on by” as Dionne sang. :0)
The Fish and Wildlife Service would give you a big fine if you did the same to crows and squirrels as they are regulated. Even pigeons are regulated if you can believe that.
I have a huge bird feeding system and get European Starlings attacking it all the time. I have to shoot them off or else they will invite their buddies. If you’ve driven out in the country and seen clouds of 1000s of black birds billowing in and out those are European Starlings. And that is what happens if they bring their buddies, you could potentially have a huge swarm on your feeders and then the only way to control them is take the food down for a few weeks.
I shoot both crows and squirrels with a pellet rifle. Don’t think I ever killed one. They just seem to stay away for a while which is good enough. For the (nosiy and messy) snowy egrets a plastic owl works wonders.