saggy61 Posted January 19, 2012 Report Share Posted January 19, 2012 Hi all, I was just surfing this site and noticed these little blighters sitting in the tree at the end of the garden. So I got myself in stealth mode and grabbed hold of my good old faithful Supersport and gingerly opened the most noisy window in the house as it seems making sure the window blinds didn’t blow to much in the wind, put the hairs on the first and pulled the trigger, I thought it was going to fall off the branch but it just swung upside down like in a cartoon, so without delay I popped another pellet in the good old faithful and about to give it another piece of lead and it dropped with his mate just looking at it thinking “what are you doing” so the cross hairs was then looking at the second little blighter and I pulled the trigger and that dropped like a stone. Once I recovered them I noticed that one had a few white feathers in the wings and nowhere else, this got me thinking if anyone else has had this and the reasons for the white feathers..... Is there a distant breading with a magpie? Maybe!!. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon123 Posted January 19, 2012 Report Share Posted January 19, 2012 Well done :good: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bullet boy Posted January 19, 2012 Report Share Posted January 19, 2012 Well done mate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saggy61 Posted January 19, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 19, 2012 Thx guys Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomhw100 Posted January 19, 2012 Report Share Posted January 19, 2012 (edited) well done mate they look like young rooks, i've shot crows with white flecks and obviously you get hooded crows which have white on them. That is a weird colouring though. Edited January 19, 2012 by tomhw100 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciaran Posted January 19, 2012 Report Share Posted January 19, 2012 Well Done... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikky Posted January 19, 2012 Report Share Posted January 19, 2012 these are actually very rare and the only two left in the wild mikky Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M.I.A Posted January 19, 2012 Report Share Posted January 19, 2012 I've shot one similar to the above. Well done Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linny Posted January 19, 2012 Report Share Posted January 19, 2012 seen one today we have a few around here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Geordie Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 these are actually very rare and the only two left in the wild mikky I heard they were now Extinct :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teal Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 A good story, and a brilliant time of the year to shoot a pair of crows with the nesting season not far off -well done Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saggy61 Posted January 20, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 I heard they were now Extinct :lol: I would say i feel guilty but i would be a big fat liar Im taking my 17hmr out for its first outing this weekend so we will see if i can get some tree rats Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beardo Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 we get a fair amount of crows with white colouring in the wings round here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomhw100 Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 are they definitely crows? i thought there beaks looked more like a rooks beak than a crows, i know they are small for rooks thats why i thought they were youg'uns. to be fair though I've never seen a rook with white on it. saying that i think its the glare of the camera making there beaks look white in the below picture its black...my mistake i stand corrected! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evil Elvis Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 I shot one just like it a couple of years ago, the wing bones were badly deformed too, flew ok until i shot it with 32g no6! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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