The fact they eat baby birds makes me detest them. I love all other birds except crows.
I hate crows. They are VERY smart and obnoxious. I am reluctant to shoot them and kill them because they are intelligent animals but I simply do what I can to drive them off. They seem to know that when I shoot my pellet gun near them that they are in mortal danger and leave.
As far as telephoto lenses go . . . .
I use mostly a Nikon D810 and not long ago bought the G2 version of the Tamron 150-600mm telephoto lens. It is not expensive as long lenses go but to me still at $1500 a bit pricey, but it is not a constant aperture which would be thousands more expensive. Anyway, to make a long story short, the lens is great, sharp as a tack even at 600mm. They make the lens for Canon and Sony and perhaps some other brand of cameras. I recommend this lens if you really want to reach out.
All Life in the universe exists and survives by consuming other life...the raptors don’t care if the rabbit they eat is a baby, or if they nab your baby pet. Raccoons and other animals will raid nests, too.
I hate crows, house sparrows, cow birds and blue jays.....
I have a bird house on the side of my house that for the past two years chickadees have been nesting in it. Last summer I watched as four fledglings finally left the house. Early in the afternoon I saw a blue jay with its head far into the bird house until I scared it away and I never gave it much thought since I thought all the babies had successfully left.
Three days later when I went out to clean out the bird house, I found a fifth baby dead with it's eye pecked out. It was that damn blue jay.......
Since then, I shoot them whenever I can when they're on the ground under my bird feeder......
Oh, and I also hate those damn starlings which I also shoot along with the sparrows and cow birds........
I have an irrational FEAR of birds. I am okay if at a distance but if they get up close to me I go BERSERK. I thought I was the only person with such a fear but I found out that Lucille Ball also had the same fear of birds. Notice that in all her TV shows, you don’t see her doing a skit with birds.