bullet1747 Posted December 24, 2015 Report Share Posted December 24, 2015 Looked out from sons window today and there was a few crows in the feild , thought I'd have a pop at them all safe before some one says tut tut , grabbed the HMR and hit the first crow about 80 yards stone cold dead , I expected the crows to take flight and go but no they went mad flying round the dead crow even nudging it any one else seen this , they went on for 15 mins at least Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benthejockey Posted December 24, 2015 Report Share Posted December 24, 2015 I've seen it a few times in the summer on the silage fields just after the silage has gone. Especially if you wing one they will fly round mobbing it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodp Posted December 24, 2015 Report Share Posted December 24, 2015 Yep, same with maggies, shoot one and get ready for the others that'll turn up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
955i Posted December 24, 2015 Report Share Posted December 24, 2015 Dave, Dave, are you all right Dave??? Here, he seems to be dead. How did that happen? Dunno, lets hang around and see if we can figure it out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
39TDS Posted December 24, 2015 Report Share Posted December 24, 2015 I've seen it and shot them as they circled. Felt a bit bad about doing that actually. Shotgun not rifle of course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scully Posted December 24, 2015 Report Share Posted December 24, 2015 This has only happened to me once. Was mooching around a farm yard with an air rifle and sniped a solitary Jackdaw perched on the edge of the silage pit. Within seconds there were hundreds of the things mobbing around the bird and me from the Rookery about 50 yards away. The noise was tremendous and it put an end to that evenings shooting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davyo Posted December 24, 2015 Report Share Posted December 24, 2015 Jackdaws do it all the time, shoot one and the rest go nuts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FalconFN Posted December 24, 2015 Report Share Posted December 24, 2015 Are you sure they were crows? Jackdaws and magpies certainly do it, and it is a little unsettling. I don't shoot rooks so don't know for sure, but they are social creatures so I would guess that they are more likely to show that sort of reaction than crows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sha Bu Le Posted December 25, 2015 Report Share Posted December 25, 2015 Yes seen it more than once with mags & jackdaws, popped one out of a sitty tree and the others went daft. Those that landed in the tree got popped also. Managed to get three jackdaws and two mags before they bailed out. All in less than 5 minutes.(sub 12 HW100) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jam1e Posted December 25, 2015 Report Share Posted December 25, 2015 I thought it had just happened to me! I've done the same. Popped one of (Jackdaw) then the others go nuts around it. Gave me time to pop a few more off. Anyone know why they do it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cornish lad Posted December 25, 2015 Report Share Posted December 25, 2015 Carrion crows will go ballistic on my mates lambing fields when you take one out ,giving plenty more chances if you keep well covered up !!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIGHTCHOKE Posted December 25, 2015 Report Share Posted December 25, 2015 It happens and can be very good shooting when it does. I had 39 corvids one afternoon in a similar situation, set under a hawthorn tree. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snow white Posted December 25, 2015 Report Share Posted December 25, 2015 Do it load's of times especially when using husspower keep hidden as best as I can and they just keep coming in to have look at there mate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest stevo Posted December 25, 2015 Report Share Posted December 25, 2015 this is why when you are out crow shooting with decoys , ALWAYS pull the crows that drop way outside of your pattern , even if they end up dropping 200 yrds away . go and bring them in else anything flying in will gather around shouting and balling at the dead/pricked crow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDog Posted December 25, 2015 Report Share Posted December 25, 2015 It is typical herd/flock behaviour. No animal or bird will be happy fleeing from a wounded companion. That is good advice from Stevo. One wounded bird, especially a crow, hopping across a field will draw in as many as the decoy pattern itself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winnie&bezza Posted December 25, 2015 Report Share Posted December 25, 2015 Yeah a few weeks ago a crow was sitting on top a tree At the end of my garden which is a bit it a sitty tree that gets a lot of use by woodies etc. I shot it out if the window with air rifle (yes it was a safe shot) and unfortunately it wasn't a stone dead shot so it flapped around in the field behind and then suddenly a black storm of crows arrived and then went mental. They were landing in the same tree and I was just picking the off, then I heard the cackle of magpies and somehow they came in without me noticing and were sitting lower down the tree and were just sitting there so I shot one of those. So I had 7 crows and Maggie all within about a minute or two. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mel b3 Posted December 27, 2015 Report Share Posted December 27, 2015 its happened quite a few times over the years , on several occasions , ive stood in the open with a mossberg 500 whilst being mobbed by rooks/crows and shooting them as they mob me to protect their mate. ive also seen big flocks disappear across a field as theyve followed a pricked bird that i havent spotted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dekers Posted December 27, 2015 Report Share Posted December 27, 2015 As already mentioned, common to the point of virtually all the time with magpies, but much less so with other corvids in my experience. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savhmr Posted December 30, 2015 Report Share Posted December 30, 2015 (edited) They don't like it up 'em... Very common with Corvids. They are a social grouping bird by and large and I've seen common crows go ballistic for 15 or 20 minutes after one of theirs has been shot or where a magpie was shot, many many times over the years. Last crows I shot fell to ground and within seconds, a few more were there hopping around nudging at the shot crow, so they got shot too, silly beggars. Edited December 30, 2015 by Savhmr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisAsh Posted December 30, 2015 Report Share Posted December 30, 2015 We had a disused building a few feet away from where i worked and it had lots of pigeons living in and on it, One day i noticed a peogon drop dead and fall to the ground about 30 feet below and quickly after that a couple of other's drooped down and began trying to nudge the dead one for about 5 min , then eventually gave up and few away Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malkiserow Posted December 30, 2015 Report Share Posted December 30, 2015 I shot a magpie and the crows went nuts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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