Where are all the birds??? I have never seen this part of the country this void of crows. I have logged several hundred miles in search of bandits and have found none. We were loaded a week before the Monday opener and the temps dipped into the upper 20's for 2 days and that is all it took,,,, The birds we had headed south and we have yet to have a push of any kind. Not even a town crow. Strange!!! Do any of you members from up north notice that the migration is late?? This is wierd. We always have crows by the first week in November. There is absolutely nothing here. I drove over 100 miles today in some of the best crow country anywhere. I checked most all of my haunts and seen nothing!!!
here in NH they moved on the 28 or so than again on the 4th and 5th( I think) of NOV. I killed a pile of them. if it wasn't for my shooting I think I would have broken a record I set for my self a few years ago. I killed 737 YTD, 10ga
Here they seem to be bunched up more than the last few years. May even be a few less birds overall but when you find a concentration there are good numbers. Strange year here also.
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"If money can fix it, it ain't broke" The great theologian and my crow hunting partner AW.
here in NH they moved on the 28 or so than again on the 4th and 5th( I think) of NOV. I killed a pile of them. if it wasn't for my shooting I think I would have broken a record I set for my self a few years ago. I killed 737 YTD, 10ga
You shoot a sxs. 737 is impressive as I am sure most of your hunts are as ours with lots of timber nearby and lots of high birds.
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"If money can fix it, it ain't broke" The great theologian and my crow hunting partner AW.
You hit it right on the head 8!!!!! Same thing here. I found birds bunched with 150 or 300 feeding, I hit em then I won't see a bird for a week. I just rcvd a tip about a large concentration today I'm gonna follow them in the eve and find the roost. Then start feedin on em like vampire Bill!!!!! To bad Sookie won't be there!!!!! LOL!!!!!
Crows do not distinguish as to what kind of hunter is afield...in any case a roaming pheasant hunter will ruin any ones' time afield. that is what helped destroy my old haunts along with the landfills going to "recycling centers".. but yes-I checked where they usually are in the cornfields and virtually nothing around..and i mean nothing..no black birds or blue jays and certainly no crows...very very strange...and they did come down late this year...I did a lot of scouting and found isolated pockets here and there however...but unable to shoot them as the area had just too many homes too close to where I needed to be. The winter roosts were there-just no place to shoot them at all...the biggest killer was the late migration...very strange...when I did shoot at them when I could? They all left the field as one and that was the extant of shooting that day-all gone and no migrants high over head either...and the goshawks moved in so I knew automatically that they sure weren't hanging around at that point.
I also saw a rare golden eagle and while i don't particularly blame that one for adding to my woes-crows get sick of always battling the various birds of prey and eventually just move on...the slow moving hawks like the red tails will badger the crows even though their chances of catching one is very slim unless I shoot one for them if i could..by and large it was the late migration but when i did see a significant number of crows I knew the next day they would not be around...
