I didn't want to hijack Mainhunt's thread on days allowed to hunt.
Does your state give any consideration to crow season or do they take a lackadaisical attitude toward it?
We have a VERY laid back attitude toward crows here as the crow is viewed as a varmint. Most people don't know there is a season or when it is. I have talked to numerous game and fish enforcement agents and they don't get the seasons either.
Here, the deer population is 1.75 million with over 300,000 harvested, Turkey and Duck make up the second and third place, then dove and small game and trapping. Hog are becoming the new deer and can be hunted day or night with our without dogs.
Fishermen spend an equal amount of time on the water as hunters do in the woods and have a big pull on our states resources.
We have somewhere around 400 Game and Fish officers to police and govern the entire state. To say that crow season or crow concerns are an afterthought would be a great understatement.
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I don't reside in a state but live in Canada, specifically the Province of Manitoba. My province is a bit larger than Texas with a population of about 1 million people. We have no "crow season" as they are not protected by any law and can be killed in any manner at any time of the year. Further, crows only reside here in hunt-able numbers from early April until the last migrants leave in mid October. Only once have I met another crow hunter here. He was a rifleman that enjoys shooting them in that manner.
Ted
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Define care about? New Hampshire has adjusted it's crow season a few times, one time on my suggestion. They have also asked me to do several crow hunting seminars at their Hunter Education Center.
-- Edited by nhcrowshooter on Friday 13th of January 2012 07:37:36 PM
Define care about? New Hampshire has adjusted it's crow season a few times, one time on my suggestion. They have also asking me to do several crow hunting seminars at their Hunter Education Center.
Care = put more time into it than is mandated by the feds to be in compliance. In no way, shape, or form is it promoted here.
My hat is off to you for being involved in the legislation and education of your game and fish.
We spend a lot of time volunteering with our officers at the local public range. The guys here really appreciate the help as they are undermanned. It gives us the chance to interact with the agency and gain a different perspective on the outdoors as a whole.
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I live in Nova Scotia, Canada. Our crow season is 1 September to 31 March. Crows migrate from further north to this province in the winter and the winter roosts can be quite large (not in the 100,000 numbers, but...). Problem is that the roosts that I can find are normally in towns, subdivisions or other populated areas. We are allowed to shoot them outside of these season dates to prevent property damage. I usually get a couple of shoots in August to protect blueberry crops. The farmers wants the carcasses hung in view of other crows to deter them. So I only get to shoot these fields once. But once is ok. At least there is good rapport between landower and hunter. I have to tell the game wardens where and when I will be shooting crows so when they get calls about gun-fire they know where I am "working". A friend of mine was approached once by police that did not know there was a crow season, and did not believe him even after seeing the crow decoys. He had to check with game wardens before he was let go....
Crow hunting promoted.....no. Crow hunting discouraged.......no So it that a care or not care ????
In NY season is from sept 1 til march31, we can hunt Fri thru Mon & yes they enforce it. Been ck'd by environmental police, state police & local police. They don't bust ur butt, but they check ur license & are well aware of the season. I don't know how many people hunt them here but I do see other guys most days I'm out & most of the time it's different people.
I live in Nova Scotia, Canada. Our crow season is 1 September to 31 March. Crows migrate from further north to this province in the winter and the winter roosts can be quite large (not in the 100,000 numbers, but...). Problem is that the roosts that I can find are normally in towns, subdivisions or other populated areas. We are allowed to shoot them outside of these season dates to prevent property damage. I usually get a couple of shoots in August to protect blueberry crops. The farmers wants the carcasses hung in view of other crows to deter them. So I only get to shoot these fields once. But once is ok. At least there is good rapport between landower and hunter. I have to tell the game wardens where and when I will be shooting crows so when they get calls about gun-fire they know where I am "working". A friend of mine was approached once by police that did not know there was a crow season, and did not believe him even after seeing the crow decoys. He had to check with game wardens before he was let go....
Crow hunting promoted.....no. Crow hunting discouraged.......no So it that a care or not care ????
Pat
Pat B, I have been to Nova Scotia many times. Once during the winter we were in the Valley near Kentville. I couldn't get over the concentrations of wintering crows.
Ted
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I was hunting (this season) in a state "before the season opened" at the request of the land owners! They had the local game warden travel with me! He even showed me some of the problem areas, I mean how great is that.
Bob A.
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I was hunting (this season) in a state "before the season opened" at the request of the land owners! They had the local game warden travel with me! He even showed me some of the problem areas, I mean how great is that.
Bob A.
Hey! That sounds like my guys here. Wait a minuet, you weren't invading our air space were you? LOL
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8 ...... They loooovvvvveeee blueberries. Farmer claimed you could actually see the blue thin out and vanish as the crows worked their way across the field !!!!! He tried noise makers, they get used to the timed period of that sudden load bang He tried sound makers, they got used to the sound of hawks, owls, and assorted crow sounds.
I put out a half to one dozen decoys on the ground a couple in the trees and come here / recognition call and wait. They come !!
Pat
-- Edited by Pat B on Monday 16th of January 2012 05:49:25 PM
The farmer wants me to hang the dead ones from trees so other crows see them. You will get crows swarming and mourning the next day but after that the field is abandoned pretty well for the rest of the season....which the farmer likes. He gets to get his crop off. I get one of two good shots off a field like that. But they are back the next year !!!!
I have a cabin in downeast Maine right smack in the middle of huge blueberry barrens. There are a few crows around there but I have honestly never seen a crow in the fields, right in the peak of the harvest time. I even talked to the farmers and they said that they have no issue with crows in the berry fields.
I would have guessed that the crows would be cleaning the fields out, but for some reason they don't over there.
All I can say ... is around here they love blueberries !!
Pat
I don't doubt you at all.
All I can think is that the fields by my camp are within 4 miles of the ocean and around there they act like seagulls instead of like crows. They seem to prefer old lobster bait over blueberries.
All I can think is that the fields by my camp are within 4 miles of the ocean and around there they act like seagulls instead of like crows. They seem to prefer old lobster bait over blueberries.
All I can think is that the fields by my camp are within 4 miles of the ocean and around there they act like seagulls instead of like crows. They seem to prefer old lobster bait over blueberries.
Reading about everyones state, province and country it apears that most places are very liberal with there crow laws. There is one place that it apears it is over regulated. In the little state of Rhode Island I can only hunt On Fri , Sat, and Sun. Now get this; some town ordinance's do not allow hunting on Sun. This gives me two days most towns. We need some of the crow" la costra nostra" to show up at a state meeting and shake it up a bit.
You will get crows swarming and mourning the next day but after that the field is abandoned pretty well for the rest of the season....which the farmer likes. He gets to get his crop off.
Pat
That's awesome.
Great selling point if you are looking to get permission to shoot their crows.
