...I went out today for a few hours (as long as is I could stand the cold on my toes forgot my friggin toe warmers)shortly before I arrived to my spot I noticed a little snow coming down not a lot but enough...I set up anyway to give it a shot...didn't get any call backs and nothing showed up lots of robins and starlets but no crows...just as I was about to tear down I hear a caw caw ...so I froze didn't move...then I hear it again caw caw but It was flying away this time...not much luck...and of course I see two flying across the street a few miles up the street as I was headed home...my question is do crows come out in the snow and cold... or do they tend to stay in...this place had lots of crows last week... when I was out squirrel hunting on closing day...
i love to shoot crows when those large lazy flakes fall.....they don't see very well!!
In your case I would likely note the time you start seeing them! specially towards afternoon...they will come to their nightly roost earlier if there is inclement weather...if there is heavy rain all day they won't move at all i understand. however a mist or fog and bring plenty of ammunition!
But NEVER shoot up your roost...this is where you can count on the crows being and better yet if you do not have to go far top shoot incoming crows. In that game you want a flyway where as few as possible come in. This is how you rack up the number as...you don't want to be too close to the roost either as all the shooting will scare the roost away. It is not fun looking for a crow roost previously 5-10 minutes away not an hour away and you have to do all your work all over again. Some crow roost will move seemingly on their own but I can guarantee you the bigger owls did it. Owls will sneek into roosts in the middle of the night and make off with a crow or two. The great horned owl will kill several because it apparently only eats their brains(?)....the crows will not use that roost again in any hurry-nothing you can do about that!
A crow caught by a hawk or owl will squaller and holler as long as it is still alive trying to get the owl or hawk to release it. So here we have an owl that grabbed a crow in the middle of the night-it will be screaming as long and as loud as it can in the inky darkness of the woods while its buddies sit their eyes wide open in sheer terror. now you know why crows sleep in the inner cities in winter...owls do not come into the inner city parks...
So watch your local crows and see where they are going and coming from...you could have a really ace of a shoot waiting for you....!
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