Comments on: How to Get Rid of Crows

on 2/16/2009 http://www.absolutebirdcontrol.com/crows.htm I bought the Bird Chase SuperSonic and it works!

on 11/14/2008 Try aluminum Pie plates tied from sting. This works in cherry trees and other fruit trees as well. The spinning action and the shiny sparkling of light helps keep them at bay. This keeps those nasty flocks of blackbirds that eat your new lawn seed at bay as well. Owls are only good to keep garden snakes at bay.

on 9/11/2008 Our neighbor used a bright spotlight on them. After about 10 days they moved on.
mareelyn

on 7/20/2008 Karen, I applaud your advocacy of nonlethal methods of dealing with "nuisance wildlife". Too many people share the attitude of our friend "Cops....247." Wildlife is getting crowded out of existence because there are too many people. Frankly it's unfortunate that the "nuisance people" in this world can't be shot and tied to poles. (Just kidding, sort of.)
-George

on 6/26/2008 A law protecting crows is a stupid law and no one is going to enforce it. Shoot one and tie it to a pole. They will not come around it.

on 5/27/2008 I use one of those super soaker style squirt guns. It holds a lot of water and the high velocity spray shoots to the top of my tree or to my back fence to scare them off. It's easier than keeping my hose at the ready, and it's quite satisfying when I can surprise them and scare them off.

on 1/5/2008 I went to AbsoluteBirdControl.com for BirdChase Supersonic crow deterrent.

on 10/3/2007 well there is a family of crows living at the treess besides my bedroom balcony , and they always comes there from 5 am till 3 pm , making my life meserible , what should i do , pls help .... should i kill them with my shot gun or poison them , pls help me , how to poison them , pls pls help me they are killing me . they are 4 crows.

on 7/3/2007 Well I have one crow that is a real stubborn thing. He just will not leave, it is so sad that the rooster that lives down the road does not go off untill 7am. I have read all of your comments and will try them all, thankyou very much sincerly Ginger.

on 4/28/2007 It's sad to see all of you with a crow problem when it can be stopped for good. Unfortuneatly this website doesn't let me post a link to your solution.
http://www.geocities.com/crowbegone

on 8/28/2006 If these are legal in your state, and you are not standing in brown dried out grass, bottle rockets work great for scaring away crows. They really hate a bang up at the top of the tree where they are roosting.

I found that scaring them when it is still light is a waste of time...they just return later. Wait until about 5 minutes before sunset, you can tell the exact time because the crows will be roosted but still chattering in the trees.

Then BANG, flood of black fills the sky as they flee.

I moved to CA and here bottle rockets are illegal. I instead use a long 18 inch wooden ruler and a cardboard box. Change boxes every few weeks so the crows do not get accustomed to the sound. I finally can sleep in past 5:30am...when they would all decide to chat about their day before taking off.

on 8/8/2006 We live in the rural about a mile from the town dump. There's thousands of crows around here, but also thousands of acres of forest on the mountains around us! I have three daughters, all under seven years. I don't want these same animals that just fed on some hygiene product at the dump, nesting in my yard where my kids play! Clapping, banging, and yelling just make you look stupid! They ate all my strawberries before I'd get outside every morning to pick them, they pooped all over everything and woke us every morning!

This is the second spring they're nesting here! Sunday the tree pruners are coming to the area to work on the Weeping Willows, he'll remove the nest!

on 8/8/2006 If you leave the nest they will just return. If you remove the nest early in the season they might build another elsewhere. Some birds have pleasant, albeit loud, calls or sounds which you can learn to ignore or enjoy. Others make sounds that are more grating than an alarm clock. I am sure that the person who said you should love the noise would not put up with an alarm clock going off right outside their window every morning. I'm not advocating wholesale slaughter of birds, but removing a few nests is reasonable. I've read a number of sites that stress how much more effective it is to catch the problem early. You can use simple scare devices and the birds are less invested in returning to that territory. As for the birds near the dump bringing germs into your children's' environment, I'd put the kids' health first: scare them away if you can. Shoot them if you can't.

on 8/8/2006 My neighbor had a problem with crows pecking around her skylight. She found a dead crow on the road and threw it up on the roof. They never came back.

on 7/21/2006 Birds were stripping my sweet corn. I got a bunch of grocery bags and slipped them over the tassels of my corn. When the wind blows the bags flutter and make noise, which in turn keeps the birds out of my corn! You can also slip socks over the end of the corn.