New Threat To Tomatoes Found

[greyghost]

That was such a cute article, gorbelly, thanks for posting it. We have a male
crow who came here every morning a couple of years ago for peanuts in the shell. Then, he seemed to have a wife who disappeared for a while, then appeared with 3 off-spring. This summer, the group grew to 8 or 9. I wish
I knew more about their family grouping; going only by numbers,it seems like the first set of off-spring haven't hatched any, attracted mates or left the original family. The original male (he seems the largest and has an out of place chest feather) is the one that alerts everyone to come when I head out to the barn in the morning. He also often calls me from their feeding spot during the day. As much as I cater to him, I can only get within 10 to 15 feet of him. I've always called him Buddy; if he's not around, I'll call his name and he does often fly in pretty quickly.

[SharonRossy]

We must have different crows here in Montreal. The ones by me are aggressive - I've seen them eating a bird carcass and leave it on my fence. I have relatives that were almost attacked by crows when he went into his back yard and they swooped down on him. I guess they had a nest near by. I've seen them trying to go after squirrels - that I wouldn't mind, frankly. The squirrels have done big damage to my tomato plants. So no sympathy there.

[Worth1]

Ted I didn't want to bring this up but it is against the rules to put pictures up of political figures.
In your pictuer I distinctly recognize six members of the US Senate.
Worth

[salix]

My neighbour feeds the local crow couple - Russell and Sheryl. He can tell them apart because they are both black...

The 2 young ones are out of the nest now and being taught to forage for themselves, but they are still very noisy and demanding - they will just suddenly sit down with gaping mouths and scream.

[ContainerTed]

Worth, I think you're right. I thought it was our local board of commissioners, but after doing some photo enlargement, I can see those birds are more intelligent than our local board members.

[Starlight]

Ted... Take a closer look at the grass in the area you been throwing stuff. Several of the neighbors have crows all over the place in their yards. What the crows have been doing is eating the armyworms. They even had a specialist on tv news as they hitting yards bad this time of the year. One neighbor that has the crows said he thought he was seeing things as his grass was like moving. It was. Well the grass itself wasn't but the armyworms eating their way through the grass and destroying it sure were. JAT

[ContainerTed]

I actually have a string that runs from my kitchen window out to the big apple tree. I have two tin cans full of beer bottle lids and they make a great scare off the crows alarm. I yank it anytime I hear them out there.