Thousands of Crows

[countyroad320]

I go to school at the University of Cincinnati and live in an apartment nearby. The last two years (I'm not from Cincy) at this time for a few days there is a constant stream of crows flying over. I mean there are thousands and thousands of them. They go in a straight line right over our parking lot.

I hope this topic is ok in the waterfowl forum.

I just thought this was interestin.

[7th]

You need to come to Cambridge some time about dark, the trees by Wally-World is black with them. It starts in Sep and by this time a year there is 10,000's of them all around. I wish I could get up there some time and have at them.

[M.Magis]

The scene 7th is talking about is amazing! I don't think anyone can accurately explain the amount of crows there, but in just a 100 square yard area, there could easily be over 10000 crows. One could only guess the total number. I hope to get a picture one of these days.

[Thunderflight]

Not meaning to stray off the subject, but back in 1989 I was deployed to the Philipines for seven weeks.

Every evening and morning the sky would be filled with thousands of big fruit bats. It looked like something outta a horror movie. This bats where as big as a cat too!!! I'll be some of the had three foot wing spands too.

TF

[Ohio Bill]

I was sitting in my tree stand last week and about 5000 flew over me...LOL all you could here was there wings flapping and the poop hitting the ground lol.. Its a cool sight though

[7th]

TF,
You started it so, in '86 I was in Guam and we was in what they call a dead swamp and the 2 mornings that we was in there at sunrise there was so many Red and Black butterflys that filled the air that for about 15 min it blocked out the sun, they just lifted off and the cloud would fly off and get thenner.

[Flyin40]

I have to agree about the crows in Cambridge. I have shot tons down there and there are literally thousands of them. You can even call them back 2 or 3 times in a row.

Flyin

[tuffshot]

countryroad, Go to wal-mart get a few boxes of shells track the crows back to their feeding grounds , get permission which should not be a problem set up in their flyway and have a ball

:D :D :D

[Thunderflight]

So what do you do with the crows once they are dead?

Do you eat them?

Wouldn't that be literally "eating crow"....:)

Thunderflight

[CritterGitter]

Can crow carrcas be used as fertilizer for a garden? If not, I wouldn't shoot em?

CG

[vvarmitr]

Though I've never had crow I've heard people say that they are good eating in spite of the old adage.
I don't know why you couldn't use them for fertilizer. The feathers would be around for quite a while.
I've seen that murder of crows at Cambridge too. I'd love to have a chance at them myself!:cool:
I'm not saying what I would do w/ varmint carcasses cause the last time I did I got a verbal spanking!:( You could put 'em on your coyote bait pile.;)
CritterGetter:Is the only reason you hunt is to use the corpse for fertilizer & in all actualility you're a vegetarian?:eek: :D