My kill tally is way down from last year because of a limited number of crows in our area. Parts of the general area that I hunt in were devastated by tornados this past April; I mean scattered devastation that you cannot believe across the entire region. Our area had a poor early dove season this September and the biologists had already expected it would be so from their dove trapping and banding program; very few young doves were caught. The biologist that I spoke with surmised that the tornados destroyed many dove nests in prime breeding season. I'm looking for opinions; could our local crow population downturn be a result of the horrible weather in mid to late April?
Local crows in your area could have very well been effected by these tornados during the nesting season. If you get any migrants from up north then I wouldn't worry about it. If you don't get any migrants then I would be quite concerned.
Bob A.
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The tornado damage in Bama this year was unbelieveable. I have been from central to northern Bama and there were dozens of paths of damage. Some major ones. I could see where it could have bothered the birds big time.
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2010 was my first year to seriously crow hunt and I thought that I was probably hunting migrants. Seeing this downturn in numbers makes me believe that these were local birds that had concentrated in one area. I hope that I am wrong and the migrants are just late; but I fear the worst.
My theory is that if the roosting area got torn up bad enough they may have had to move 20 miles or even more to find another suitable roost which would effectively alter their flyways. Quite drastically I could imagine.
