Look at what a pair of rooks and their crow friends did to my* front lawn

[story]

Except that that covid fella looks like he’s not so much bothered by the eagle as he is actively taking the piss

 

[Ax^]

what did you do to the crows


only seen something like that when the local fox got hungry and eat a young crow

they made that little vixen life hell from them on

 

[redcogs]

Dont mess with a corvid, they are the boss and will control your life:

 

[Mr.Bishie]

Apply for a shot gun license & be done with ‘em! A la Big Vern!

 

[Orang Utan]

What have you done to earn a hex from Alan Moore?

 

[Orang Utan]

Dont mess with a corvid, they are the boss and will control your life:

I want a pet raver now

 

[danski]

I want a pet raver now

I’ll be your pet raver but you must feed me the right amount of pills.

 

[Mumbles274]

You have a ready made regiment of corvids ready at your command and you fail to see they have prepared the ground for you? Literally!

Feed them!!

Make them your friends and they will learn to know, love and protect you.

Go well my new corvid squadrom commander

 

[Epona]

Another vote for team corvid here!

Look they've aerated your lawn for you!
Now you can easily tread wildflower seeds into the ground in that area with the hope of having something much nicer and better for pollinators than your square of green next year.

It will also give you the opportunity to get unreasonably angry when all the finches and similar small birds that have to get through winter here scoff all the wildflower seeds that you were hoping would germinate

 

[littlebabyjesus]

And don't fuck them off. It will come back to bite you. Piss off one crow and they tell others about you.

 

[Callie]

Befriend them, bend them to your will, become Lord of the Corvids. Rule.

TopCat how did you get on with this?

 

[Mumbles274]

I've been trying to befriend my resident jackdaws. I regularly leave peanuts outside my house and front door. Between the jackdaws, sparrows and pigeons they always get eaten.. Its a long form game for me. DC has been invited into crow world

 

[geminisnake]

Tbf the grass doesn't look that green and lawn like anyhow and the corvids need to eat something. Be grateful they have eaten all the bugs that may have damaged it in a different way Sorry, total corvid fan here

 

[Orang Utan]

I’ll be your pet raver but you must feed me the right amount of pills.

I’d just keep nicking them. Hmm. This was never a problem with cats.

 

[BoatieBird]

I'm also team corvid .

Now I know what's going on with my lawn I'm perfectly happy to let them get on with it.
It's a lawn, it'll recover!

 

[cesare]

Another team corvid here too. I don't have a lawn but the crows are very polite here - yesterday one carefully and delicately fished a feather out of a bird bath before having a drink

 

[farmerbarleymow]

How are your corvid pals doing today DotCommunist? Hope they've been able to fully aerate the grass as it looks like they've missed a bit in your photo. Get them some nice food and they'll then guard you for life.

 

[Santino]

There's a large crow strutting up and down outside my office window and I'm quite glad of the two layers of glass separating us.

 

[ouirdeaux]

Anyone else getting an earworm? Look what they've done to my lawn, ma, look what they've done to my lawn...

 

[Epona]

There's a large crow strutting up and down outside my office window and I'm quite glad of the two layers of glass separating us.

Do you have a bird phobia?
Crows are lovely
They remember people who have behaved poorly towards them though, so always treat them nicely!

 

[Santino]

Do you have a bird phobia?

No, but he was a big fucker.

 

[8ball]

Do you have a bird phobia?
Crows are lovely
They remember people who have behaved poorly towards them though, so always treat them nicely!

Scientists have estimated their intelligence as in the range of a seven year old human child!

 

[TopCat]

TopCat how did you get on with this?

Sorry for the late response.

I tried hard with some success but achieved none of my strategic goals.

I fed them every day for two years and made sure they had a trough of water fresh most days.

They seemed disinterested or scared of me and would fly off if I was standing up.

They had a baby crow and they all still come here every morning. My cat is ancient and fussy about food so they get all the excess now.

I wanted them to follow me about in a spooky cloud and wait for me when I was in Lidl. Plus steal all the little weed bags they could spot. I failed.

 

[danski]

Sorry for the late response.

I tried hard with some success but achieved none of my strategic goals.

I fed them every day for two years and made sure they had a trough of water fresh most days.

They seemed disinterested or scared of me and would fly off if I was standing up.

They had a baby crow and they all still come here every morning. My cat is ancient and fussy about food so they get all the excess now.

I wanted them to follow me about in a spooky cloud and wait for me when I was in Lidl. Plus steal all the little weed bags they could spot. I failed.

Did you try monkey nuts? I’ve seen what you aspire to. I was in awe

 

[TopCat]

Did you try monkey nuts? I’ve seen what you aspire to. I was in awe

My neighbours buy monkey nuts in a 50llb weight sack and feed several colonies of squirrels with them. Pigeons are interested but have learnt that if they eat them whole it’s problematic to shit them out.

So the pigeons lurk around the squirrel's as they eat and get the scraps.

The crows have never given a fuck. They will eat nuts if I put them in their bowl but do prefer fatty lumps of meat. They go Caw CAW when I give them beef brisket.

 

[Saul Goodman]

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Just relentless devastation from a pair of huge winged birds and furthered by the crows. I've caught the rooks bang at it tearing the lawn to shreds. And its only my lawn, they aren't ripping the shit out of anyone elses. This front bit isn't my responsibility, its the councils who mow it regular but these corvid fuckers have turned it into the Somme.

The google says its larvae they are after.



*the council's

e2a bastards

Should have fixed the fence.

 

[danski]

My neighbours buy monkey nuts in a 50llb weight sack and feed several colonies of squirrels with them. Pigeons are interested but have learnt that if they eat them whole it’s problematic to shit them out.

So the pigeons lurk around the squirrel's as they eat and get the scraps.

The crows have never given a fuck. They will eat nuts if I put them in their bowl but do prefer fatty lumps of meat. They go Caw CAW when I give them beef brisket.

We used to hang a half coconut of suet/fat for our birds. It kept disappearing and we thought it was the squirrels.
One day, out of the corner of my eye, I saw a crow take off with it.
Couldn’t help but be impressed

 

[JimW]

If you give them sirloin they go cor blimey.

 

[TopCat]

If you give them sirloin they go cor blimey.

A few years back when I was proper ill they got half my sirloin steak every day. They seemed pissed off when I steadily got better and could finish the whole steak. Proper annoyed. I used to laugh at them and that pissed them off too.

 

[Epona]

A few years back when I was proper ill they got half my sirloin steak every day. They seemed pissed off when I steadily got better and could finish the whole steak. Proper annoyed. I used to laugh at them and that pissed them off too.

I fear that at some point in the future there might be something resembling a scene from The Birds, where all those crows' descendants, fuelled by a long oral history of you reducing the steak supply, will get together to avenge their ancestors.