Problem with rooks and crows ?

arcadiune

I and a couple of neighbours have had a big problem for ages with large flocks of rooks and crows in a nearby wood with their droppings on in my case my car and their's on their washing and during the summer in the garden. In addition they are protected by law.

We finally discovered a firm and their website called "Portek laser strike hand held bird scarer" and their very interesting on line video a couple of days ago which works by scaring them off with a powerful beam of I think halogen light and seems to work well when it's dusk, however quite expensive. We decided to use halogen torches (mine from the RAC) pointing them at the large flocks a couple of days ago and bingo no droppings at all since then with no sign of the large flocks sometimes a thousand or more !

Hope it helps anyone with a similar problem....:)

agrinnall

It's not rooks and crows:


"a Crow in a crowd is a Rook, a Rook on its own is a Crow"



http://www.bbc.co.uk/naturescalendar/winter/farmland/buckenham/buck_farm.shtml

arcadiune

It's the end result that matters not who caused it, would you like it ?

sheramber

The correct term is carrion crow or hooded crow who are two members of the crow family.

https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/wildlife-guides/bird-a-z/hooded-crow/

People commonly refer to the carrion crow as a'crow'.

Hence the Scottish rhyme 'Three Craws Sat Upon a Wa'.

maninthestreet

Stone the crows!

George_Michael

maninthestreet wrote: »

Stone the crows!

Stoned crows?

agrinnall

sheramber wrote: »

The correct term is carrion crow or hooded crow who are two members of the crow family.

https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/wildlife-guides/bird-a-z/hooded-crow/

People commonly refer to the carrion crow as a'crow'.

Hence the Scottish rhyme 'Three Craws Sat Upon a Wa'.

But if they're in a flock as the OP describes then they're not crows at all, they are rooks.

D_M_E

Let's get to the rook of the OP's post and not crow about the matter.

As OP pointed out a halogen torch is a lot cheaper than the solution offered by the Portek Laser and seems to do the same job - another great moneysaving tip!

twhitehousescat

are duracell batteries needed

colcheslad

No need to crow on about it

MarkBargain

The rooks existed in that wood before cars were invented and before woodland was cut down to make space for housing, so perhaps leave nature in peace to live in the remaining spaces it has left.