Rooks

[merseapaul]

Hi there, just wondering how many of you still shoot rooks?. I personally stopped several years ago when I read somewhere they may do more good than harm eating slugs and what not. I know corvids in general are classed as pests just curious how true it is about rooks.

[Konnie]

they can do quite a bit of damage,

 

drilled peas/barley they will dig out. ripe barley they do a lot of damage on my patch if they can get started at the side of the field.

 

numbers do get out of order as the game shooters never seem to shoot them,

[Scully]

We shoot a few branchers in our local rookery each year but we don't go out of our way to do it, except on one caravan site where they carp all over the 'vans and the owners washing (owns a bed and breakfast also) and her grandkids trampoline.

[superspark]

Where I live they destroy crops on mass, therefore I shoot hundred's of them throughout the year

[Bluebarrels]

To be honest with you,i shoot Rooks at every opportunity BB

[Guest topshot_2k]

This year especially we have had large numbers of them eating the feed and crops so have been hitting them hard.

[eccles]

Don't see lots of rooks about these days,think someone must have shot them.

[Rimfireboy]

I've been asked to help keep numbers in control at a large rookery. Other times of year I rarely shoot any rooks, even though there's a rookery about quarter mile from my house with a few spliter groups of them a couple of hundred yards away. So plenty about. They even frequent my roof and chimney stacks. As do the jackdaws, but I don't shoot them either, until they decide to nest in my chimney pots.