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Old Mar 17, 2013, 03:54 PM
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Yes, crows are loud, raucous sounding things. Their calls get really obnoxious really quick. Even my parrot yells at them occasionally to shut up. I don't know how to get rid of them. They go away on their own accord.

A funny but true story is how my grandfather, a farmer in Kansas, got rid of crows. There were a huge flocks of them in the fruit trees by his house. The crows were eating the fruit of all the trees in their yard, leaving my grandmother with nothing to make a pie from. My grandfather tried using a scarecrow. That worked for one day. He tried firing his rifle in the air, hoping that the noise would frighten them away. Nope. He shot a few of the crows. Still didn't faze them. So, he came up with a solution that killed many of the crows, frightened off the rest and decimated his wife's favorite pear tree. He filled a coffee can with nails, placed it in the pear tree, stuffed a stick of dynamite in the coffee and lit the fuse. KA-BOOM!!!! Nails went flying. Crows went flying or dropped dead to the ground. Many limbs of the pear tree were blown off. My grandmother immediately knew what happened and why. She ran out of the house and read my grandfather the riot act of all time, lol! Even with the limbs blown off, the pear tree might have survived had it not been for all the nails stuck on it. The crows never came back, though.
Thanks for this!
IowaFarmGal