On 2/9/2012 9:05 PM, Mark Miller wrote:
> ... but if you happen to be from Geneva or Auburn it's kind of hard to
> find anyone "pro crow" due to the devastation they cause. The rules
> are designed to help maintain population levels at healthy limits.
> Just FYI, I had a flock (murder) of about 1000 crows flying over me in
> the town of Waterloo about 7 AM this morning (96A/East Lake Rd).
There have been winters when crows roosted in downtown Ithaca, and the
sidewalks became covered with the inevitable result in the area where I
park my car - sometimes the car, too. It didn't make me want to shoot
them, although sometimes I did wish someone would bring in a Goshawk or
other raptor big enough to scare them off!
Seems hard to argue that crow hunting has any relationship to
maintaining healthy population limits in NYS, given how sporadic and
relatively unregulated it is. Seems more like a bunch of people wanting
to go out and shoot at a bunch of birds, and then compare body counts
over beers. In Auburn the 'hunt' was run by a bar, making that
particularly easy for participants.
Alicia
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