Did anyone else see the thousands of crows that decended on downtown MPLS last night about 5:30???
I have NEVER seen anything like it!!!
January 22, 2009 at 5:39 pm
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Crows!!!!
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January 22, 2009 at 5:47 pm #740357
I see a ton heading from what looks like the Pigs Eye area in St Paul and going west every evining at work.
January 22, 2009 at 6:00 pm #740359Thats what happens when we leave H-town on a GL Wednesday
We better stay inside next week for safety reasons
By the way were is the pic of Sauger in his new ride
January 22, 2009 at 6:04 pm #740362kewl… if it keeps up I will have to get into a photo position.. events like that are spectacularly rare
January 22, 2009 at 6:39 pm #740372It scared the sh** out of Ritter
January 22, 2009 at 6:40 pm #740373Maybe they’re shooting an Alfred Hitchcock remake…
Waxy
January 22, 2009 at 6:56 pm #740376Quote:
It scared the sh** out of Ritter
Yes it did, I’ve never seen that many crows all congregating in one spot… Good thing the FORD didn’t die on the way up…..
Jami
January 22, 2009 at 8:23 pm #740397I think the star trib or one of the TV stations did a story on that last year,
it has something to do with hunting pressure and that they feel safe in the city
January 22, 2009 at 8:34 pm #740404Quote:
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It scared the sh** out of Ritter
Yes it did, I’ve never seen that many crows all congregating in one spot… Good thing the FORD didn’t die on the way up…..
Jami
It almost did
January 22, 2009 at 8:36 pm #740407Good reason to hunt them they are one of the main carrieries of West Nile sleeping sickness. I shoot everyone I see and can reach with my 223.
January 22, 2009 at 8:58 pm #740415Tom,
I will help your cause.
Going .223 shopping—will a 22-250 work just as good?
Thinking a mini-14 with a 20 shot clip-great for walking the bullets in.
Jeremy
Repowering will be complete this weekend.January 22, 2009 at 9:20 pm #740419That’s pretty normal this time of year down there. …I’m not sure why though. Rochester seems to have a lot of them around that area too.
They’re always safe until March in MN. The hunting season starts then. My crow call is fully charged and ready to go. ….Some of the best shoot’in ever is yet to come!!January 22, 2009 at 9:53 pm #740428One night a few years ago the crows decided to roost in a large evergreen tree that towers over a very popular sidewalk that leads to the bars here at UNI. Well my buddies and sat and watched people get crapped on as they went to the bars, it was really really funny. All these girls a dressed up, and they get crapped on. We saw at least 10-12 people get hit.
They are thick in Ames, IA too at the Iowa State campus. The Ames area actually sponsored a crow hunt a few years ago, just outside city limits.
January 22, 2009 at 10:09 pm #740433did it look like this
January 22, 2009 at 10:27 pm #740441it must have looked more like this.. but with crows instead of snows…
January 22, 2009 at 10:30 pm #740443Do you think this has anything to do with the fact that roadkill is nearly impossible for crows this year?? Take into account that the ditches are 5 feet high with all the snow and rodents/little animals don’t even get the chance to get hit…………………………and when they do, it snows again and the plows scrape and cover them up almost instantly! I was thinking about this the other day and thought that it must be a hard time for crows right now,,hunting should be good!
Anyhooo, maybe they herd up and hit the metro areas where they’re more likely to find scraps and such from humans???? I may be a crow genius!!
January 23, 2009 at 2:30 am #740511Quote:
did it look like this
Nate, like that x10,000. I am not kidding. Strangest thing I ever saw.
January 23, 2009 at 2:50 am #740517yeah I gotta see that.. one of the kewlest things like that I saw was in Alburqugue NM last year…. I was driving through bout sunset and there was a brush fire along the rio grande… and it scared up thousands of crows and they were milling around in the fire and smoke and it was all colored with a brilliant NM sunset… I was on the interstate and there was LE everywhere so I couldnt stop and get a shot… but it was amazing…
January 23, 2009 at 3:02 am #740520Maybe they were just getting back from the anauguration
Im just kidding.If this sounds to bad you can delete it.January 23, 2009 at 3:59 pm #740685Why wait until March. The regs say you can take them out anytime if they are causing damage or about to cause damage. I didn’t like the way they were looking at my garden, grass, bird feeder, ………
January 23, 2009 at 4:44 pm #740705It’s called a ‘murder’. They flock in the cities when it gets colder, the city is a microclimate that tends to be a bit warmer.
January 24, 2009 at 3:53 pm #740962Quote:
Why wait until March. The regs say you can take them out anytime if they are causing damage or about to cause damage. I didn’t like the way they were looking at my garden, grass, bird feeder, ………
They’re always causing – or about to cause damage – in my book!! BUT,… when you are dressed in winter cammo and have the crow call going wide-open, they may (DNR) frown on the idea of purposely drawing them in “to cause damage.”
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