BarryBobPosthole
02-21-2013, 09:50 AM
I watched a very cool program on 'Nature' on PBS last night. It is called 'A Murder of Crows'.
First off, I've always considered crows vermin. I've killed them by the thousands, literally. My first war with the crows was instigated by my grandma when I was 12 or 13, who'd pay me a nickel for every crow I'd kill that was eating her pecans. One of my hideouts was their outdoor john, but only for short periods of time of course. It wasn't too pleasant in there. That's where I learned about lookouts and how quickly those birds got 'eddicated'. Later on in life, I killed them in my cousin's corn field (sweet corn, not the Iowa kind of corn field) by the hundreds. He'd wounded a crow once, put it in a cage until it recovered, and then we'd stake it out on a perch and the crows would come in and in and in and we'd shoot the shit out of them. Then, later in life, my buddy Mallard got an electronic call, the first of it's find I'd ever seen and about the size of an old record player, and you couldn't keep the crows off of you. IT was fun shooting and we figured we were doing a good deed. That's just how everyone I know views crows.
After seeing this deal last night, I'm not sure I'd go do that again. Not that I'd take any of it back, but man these are some very smart animals. It just gets harder and harder for me to justify killing something I'm not going to put on the table. and I ain't gonna eat a nasty ass crow.
anyway, check this show out if you getthe chance. I knew they were smart, but no idea they were THIS smart.
BKB
First off, I've always considered crows vermin. I've killed them by the thousands, literally. My first war with the crows was instigated by my grandma when I was 12 or 13, who'd pay me a nickel for every crow I'd kill that was eating her pecans. One of my hideouts was their outdoor john, but only for short periods of time of course. It wasn't too pleasant in there. That's where I learned about lookouts and how quickly those birds got 'eddicated'. Later on in life, I killed them in my cousin's corn field (sweet corn, not the Iowa kind of corn field) by the hundreds. He'd wounded a crow once, put it in a cage until it recovered, and then we'd stake it out on a perch and the crows would come in and in and in and we'd shoot the shit out of them. Then, later in life, my buddy Mallard got an electronic call, the first of it's find I'd ever seen and about the size of an old record player, and you couldn't keep the crows off of you. IT was fun shooting and we figured we were doing a good deed. That's just how everyone I know views crows.
After seeing this deal last night, I'm not sure I'd go do that again. Not that I'd take any of it back, but man these are some very smart animals. It just gets harder and harder for me to justify killing something I'm not going to put on the table. and I ain't gonna eat a nasty ass crow.
anyway, check this show out if you getthe chance. I knew they were smart, but no idea they were THIS smart.
BKB