Why no Crows? (1 Viewer)

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songbird6666

Registered User

• Apr 28, 2004

• #1

I get almost every type of garden bird coming down on my feeders (apart from Bullfinches :C ) including multitudes of Jackdaws and Rooks, but never, ever a Crow. There are plenty around, I even spot them flying over, and purposely averting their eyes! Why isn't my garden or the food I supply good enough for them? Any ideas, not that I am unduly worried, just wondering why. :h?:

 

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Steve Lister

Senior Birder, ex County Recorder, Garden Moths.

• Apr 28, 2004

• #2

We get crows coming to our feeders but only very occasionally; they only seem interested in meaty things like fat trimmed off chops.

Steve

 

Birdbrain

"Birders do it in the Field"

• Apr 28, 2004

• #3

I get a pair of Carrion Crows every now and then thay love peanuts seen one once take 12 nuts before in his crop and beak unreal, then fly next door and hide some in there long grass, wonder if thay really remember were thay are.

 

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rogerk

That's a, I say that's a chicken, boy!

• Apr 29, 2004

• #4

songbird said:

I get almost every type of garden bird coming down on my feeders (apart from Bullfinches :C ) including multitudes of Jackdaws and Rooks, but never, ever a Crow. There are plenty around, I even spot them flying over, and purposely averting their eyes! Why isn't my garden or the food I supply good enough for them? Any ideas, not that I am unduly worried, just wondering why. :h?:

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Crows are not a gregarious bird generally, which means they do not often mix with other birds. Unlike Rooks or Jackdaws, Crows tend to feed on their own and the foodstuffs they like, (insects, worms, carrion, human food litter etc. are widely available, so they are seldom seen in gardens.

 

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osborne

Well-known member

• Apr 29, 2004

• #5

I've never had a crow touch down in my garden even though there are plenty nearby. Get plenty Jackdaws though. As Roger says Carrion Crows are the least gregarious of the common black crows.

 

CJW

Hit-and-run WUM

• Apr 29, 2004

• #6

But the Hoodies are very confident creatures! Aha, perhaps that was the criteria for the split! 3

 

John P

Usually on a different wavelength

• Apr 30, 2004

• #7

I would suggest putting out a cooked chicken carcass, it's probably one of the best attractors.(avoid leaving it out all night for the rats)

Crows also eat bread in my garden but only after dipping it in the water bath on the lawn.The magpies have also cottoned on to that trick now.

 

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songbird6666

Registered User

• Apr 30, 2004

• #8

Thanks for the tips everyone. I think I will pass on the chicken carcass idea though thanks, I prefer my chickens walking around the garden, fully feathered! And I already have an ongoing battle with rats who aren't worried about appearing in broad daylight (Did you know they just lurvvvve sunflower hearts????) :eat:

 

steve_nova

Well-known member

• May 1, 2004

• #9

CJW said:

But the Hoodies are very confident creatures! Aha, perhaps that was the criteria for the split! 3

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You could be right there Chris, the ones in Sweden and the middle east live in towns like Jackdaws do here so.....?