Riverton suspends crow crackdown [Huge Crow Invasion]

The Riverton Ranger ^ | March 17, 2006 | BEN NEARY

[TChris]

This is the town where I grew up. They tend to take the direct approach to solving problems there. :-)

[ARealMothersSonForever]

The only good crow...

[Mind-numbed Robot]

I have never heard of crows that thick but gackles are a problem in many parts of the country.

[HardStarboard]

>>>They tend to take the direct approach to solving problems there.<<<

More power to common sense solutions!!

In Seattle we had a couple of huge sealions hanging around the entrance to the locks into fresh water Lake Union...eating all the migrating salmon....multiple hundreds a day.

We tried sound machines imitating killer whales, the sealions sworn ememies; we tried M-80 thrown in the water...but never near the sealions; we tried nets....still the sealions - the most famous was "Herschel" - kept eating salmon.

So the wise men trapped them and flew them 900 miles down to the California coast.....they were back in less than 2 weeks.

A side note: I have a friend that used to work on a fish farm in Alaska...sealions used to tear the nets and eat the salmon as they swam out. He said that all you need to do was use a 30.06 on one or two....and the smell of sealion blood in the water would keep them away for a minimum of two months.

[ARealMothersSonForever]

These guys are making their annual crapstorm in Texas.

[de Buillion]

I think all black birds are smart; I think all large birds are smart, except domestic turkeys and chickens.

[sine_nomine]

Grackles belong to the same family, corvids: smart, big eaters, ominivores, pesky at times.

[bobby.223]

I agree. as a seattle native seeing all this herschel BS go on it was agreed your solution was right on the money!

[Tammy8]

When I read this all I could think of was the Hitchcock movie "The Birds"

[ARealMothersSonForever]

Grackles belong to the same family, corvids: smart, big eaters, huge crappers, ominivores, pesky at times.

[bybybill]

This is all Bush`s fault. Did anybody talk to the crows before the killing started? WE know that their conversations were recorded, did a judge approve? Think not. And, once again, Congress didn`t know about this, well, some of the Congressmen knew, but they a, a, sort of forgot, except those that wrote memos to the file protesting the killing of innocent Crows, well, some were less innocent then others, but, still, nowhere in the Constitution does the President have the right to kill Crows.
STOP BUSH NOW, FREE THE CROWS

[CheyennePress]

You ever go to the Rendevouz, TChris? Some rather interestng characters there. Just sat there and shot muzzleloaders and shot the breeze for a day.

[Calpernia]

Thanks for the ping!

[TheMole]

I live in the Vancouver, Canada area. The crow population here has exploded in the last 20 years to the point where other small birds are much less common than they were (the gull population has also increased). The only migration these crows ever do is to gather in a flock of thousands about an hour before dusk and fly to the suburb of Burnaby. This phenomenon has been noted enough, especially from cars at evening rush hour, that there is actually a blog called Crows to Burnaby. I can only dream of the cities around here adopting the same solution as Riverton.

[gleeaikin]

I guess the crow population is a good sign that the West Nile Virus, problem is going away. Oh, well, now we have Bird Flu to look forward to. Better to get the birds out of town before the flu hits, infect fewer people that way.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

Those are the rascals and although I need to check to make sure I think those monsters are also the ones that will sneak their eggs into others birds' nests so that the other birds will end up feeding the new born for them.

They are generally nasty, worthless birds.

[Fresh Wind]

[elcid1970]

"getting more than two dozen birds with a single shotgun shell"

C'mon! More media ignorance about guns. That's some boss shotshell load.

In the Army I used to shoot crows out of treetops with a .45 automatic (they were gathered over our messhall tent) and they still needed finishing off.

[corkoman]

Ravens are the smart ones - not crows. Easily confused. Ravens can pick locks, open cabinets, move backpacks to safe areas to open up and raid them at their leisure. Crafty buggers.

[SAMS]

"They appear to be staying down by the river."

In a van?