For starters you don't want any dead birds a couple hundred yards away as that will be the bird the incoming crows will circle over while crowing up an outrage or two....I was surprised that Bob left them out but it works! Ironically when I have run out the crows still CAME in right at ME with very predictable results!
Dick Mermon who wrote "Crow Shooting Secrets" advises to pick up any dead ones...and especially any runners headed for the hills as incoming crows always go see that one! I d found it isn't necessary to pick up any downed crows in front of your blind..I've watched enough videos to tell you it is quite alright and advantageous to leave them there but right close to YOUR blind..so go grab any gliders 150 yards out and so forth!
I pick up my birds when it's slow. I always hang a few in the brush underneath my decoys. But I always do the fighting set up.
I'm not sure you would get the same results on a feeding set up?
Here, because they are shot 365 days a year, ANY birds on their backs or sides, or not looking natural scares others away. HOWEVER, that said, Sod's law (Murphy's law) dictates that as soon as you move out of the hide without the gun to clean up the pattern, 20-30 birds WILL appear over your decoys :(
Happens Ohhh so many times LOL
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Lol glad you methinks Murphys law. I have actually taken birds just waking back to the truck out in the open. It was like they knew I was leaving and didn't have my gun out anymore. I quickly resolved that issue. Now my gun is ready when I leave the truck and until I get back to it
People in the UK sometimes eat the rooks, which were a delicacy in the Middle Ages. But not many, and NO, I'm not one of them.
I do however eat the woodpigeon, but not feral pigeon
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I rarely pick up dead crows as they usually disappear into the cover. Pick up some for a photo or if hunting private land that is manicured such as a sod farm. One landowner requested I police the dead as he had bee hives on the property and was concerned that dead crows may attract bears which do damage to hives.
Ted
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