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Post by Hank on Nov 29, 2015 21:37:03 GMT -5
Hey guys,,, Every year around Thanksgiving time and up till the end of January here at the rail road yard in Cuncinnati we have crows come in by the thousands if not tens of thousands. They roost on the train rails and poop all over the place. The leave every morning and return in the evening. After dark you can sneak up on them and catch one with your hands.. Oneshotike caught on a few years ago and snuck it into the conductors shanty where he turned it loose,, you should have heard that crow.. He was not happy.,,, caa caa caa said the mad bird.. People got up and ran out of the building.. You should have been there to see it.. Was pretty funny.,, but anyway here is a few pictures of the crows coming in for their roost in the yard... You should see how many of them they are... 1000 rounds and you wouldn't even put a dent in them...       |
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Post by hillbill on Nov 29, 2015 21:40:27 GMT -5
looks like the railroad needs to hire some guys with air rifles to take care of the problem...
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Post by Hank on Nov 29, 2015 21:46:06 GMT -5
Bill.. I've told them I'd do it for free but no guns on the property.. Period.. Not in your car, truck, or on your person.,, instant fired if caught..
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Post by Hank on Nov 29, 2015 21:53:35 GMT -5
Here's one of the hundreds that just die.. There will be crow all over by the end of winter..  |
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Post by keith on Nov 29, 2015 22:21:57 GMT -5
I've seen that in the middle east with ravens.
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Post by schunter on Nov 30, 2015 9:16:58 GMT -5
Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds comes to mind...
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Post by Deleted on Nov 30, 2015 12:22:04 GMT -5
Suppose to be one of, if not the smartest bird on earth. When taken as a fledgling and tongue is split it is also a "prolific" talker.
Yeah I know...too much discovery channel lol. I kill 'em on site here at home.
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Post by Kyle on Nov 30, 2015 18:52:45 GMT -5
That is a bunch of crows. Never seen that many before in one place.
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Post by 12ptdroptine on Nov 30, 2015 19:34:05 GMT -5
We have that.same.problem in our courthoise and.college.area....cant.even walk on the.sidewalks ..souch crow crap. They try birds of prey decous and calls.and sojnds....dont help anything. And,noooo....you cant.shoot them with anything
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Post by Richard on Nov 30, 2015 22:06:22 GMT -5
"HOLY CROW!
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Post by Squeeze on Dec 1, 2015 19:03:20 GMT -5
we have the same thing here with geese
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Post by itneverends22 on Dec 5, 2015 10:35:29 GMT -5
It's like that in every rail yard,in jeff's pictures all of the sow belly cars are loaded with some sort of grain, corn, wheat, oats, etc, etc,also the black short tank cars are loaded with corn syrup, mollasses, sweeteners.. the crows are just waiting for the switcher or hump to hit cars hard enough to spill some grain out..
I've seen out on main line, cars spill grain, and we would come along and the sky would just be black with crows and pigoens over the spillage..
also the death rate is because of the pestisides on corn, etc, etc. along with old age, west nile desease, etc,
Great pictures Jeff ! Brings back alot of memories for me, was only in cincinnati yard just once years back, brought one train from frontier yard (Buffalo ny) to cincy back in the p.c. days.. anyways,, thanks Jeff,,
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Post by GMB54-120 on Dec 5, 2015 10:45:13 GMT -5
Crows would roost at a grave yard very near a place i used to work. They would be so thick as they flew over our parking lots it looked like bird poop rain was falling. NOT an exaggeration. It was like nothing ive ever seen. Trips to the carwash were becoming a nightly ritual.
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Post by itneverends22 on Dec 5, 2015 10:56:52 GMT -5
Crows would roost at a grave yard very near a place i used to work. They would be so thick as they flew over our parking lots it looked like bird poop rain was falling. NOT an exaggeration. It was like nothing ive ever seen. Trips to the carwash were becoming a nightly ritual. I Believe it, and seen it,, I field dressed a deer the other day, I heard them and seen them in tree behind me, I no more was enroute home and they swooped down and devowerd that pile in minutes.. |
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