I have noticed over the past so many years the farmer is far more efficient at collecting spilt corn or not spilling any at all! This would explain a lot don't we think No wonder! That is what happened to former areas frequently heavily infested by crows! I wonder why it didn't occur to me sooner! Take a look and count the number of cobs afield....not like decades ago! That has to be why the crows left!
Yes has to be! Why they are not dropping in or hanging around like the early eighties!!
-- Edited by Top Cat on Monday 6th of November 2017 07:24:44 AM
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You have it right. Their food sources have moved... they have all shifted over to Wal-Mart parking lots. Just this morning I noticed about 50 of them lined up on the top of our nearby store.
Demi
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You have it right. Their food sources have moved... they have all shifted over to Wal-Mart parking lots. Just this morning I noticed about 50 of them lined up on the top of our nearby store.
Demi
And Micky Ds......
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I was pigeon shooting at a dairy farm yesterday, and had the opportunity to stay until dark. During dusk (for about 20 minutes) there was a constant flow of crows, maybe 200-300 altogether, over the property about 200 yards west of where I was shooting. Like a steady flow of cars on a highway.
They flapped/ flew at a relaxed pace, and they did not stray from their flight path, which seemed pretty narrow. And they were mostly 75 to 125 feet above the trees.
If I can get out there one morning soon, it's getting really cold up here (was 23*F yesterday morning), I might try to set up close to where I saw that flight line.
-- Edited by Bob O on Tuesday 7th of November 2017 06:34:00 PM
If it were me I would wait and get a crack at them in the late afternoon as they will be coming like you witnessed. If you do it in the morning they will come out in big bunches and your shooting time will be shorter. If for example they are headed west in the afternoon then you could shoot them in a either a north or south breeze. Just make sure you position your blind up wind of them, not down wind from where they are going through.
The best shooting(for what that is worth) was before October even began!! Not for me as I won't go then....
The best crow shooting in NH was and always has been during the annual fall migration. That migration this year was lacking to say to the least, very little of the usual build up prior to the big push, it came very late starting on 10/27 with the peak being near 11/1. This year the big flocks flew much higher than normal as the birds moved south and they would not come down and provide those steady periods of non stop shooting for several minutes. I believe the changes in the migration this year is attributable to the warmest October on record for NH.
Yes I got a few that day but I took the picture in the afternoon when I was home lol. That picture is only about 1/3 of the birds in that flight. Fact is during the migration you don't know where the best place to be is. You can be at one location and somebody else can be two miles away, one person sees a trickle and the other is having a great shoot. There is an element of luck in crow shooting in this state and probably elsewhere. You just have to get out as much as you can and hope that one those days you will be hunting on X marks the spot. You never really know when a great shoot is going to happen, you can narrow it down to a range of days. All you can do is get out there and be prepared to stay with extra ammo, food and drink when it does.
that was a classic but true, BobA!