Best viewed with sound. It’s difficult to see because of the quality of the video, but many of the trees in the background and the surrounding area are also full of crows. Loud, squawking, pooping crows.
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Hey Rob, We are in Fla. I just played your video and our dog thought she was home. Normally when the crows sound like that around our house, it means there are foxes around. She heard them and ran outside on the deck to check for foxes. No foxes here but lots of dolphins. Cheers
I love this.
“The city also promises to spend $8,000 on the crow problem at Victoria Park” …what?
This has not stopped being an issue since I was elected. Although I’m not personally bothered by them, I CONTINUALLY get complaints and inquiries from people who are fed up with the noise and the droppings, and from people who are just plain terrified of them. I get emails, I get phone calls, I get stopped in the street, at the mall, at the market, at my office, etc. It is a real quality of life issue for many people.
Instead of trying to eradicate the crows, as has been discussed in the past, we’ve settled on trying to manage them instead. A couple of months ago a vendor demonstrated a “wailer” that was very effective in disturbing and moving the crows. The City is intending to use the wailer to move the crows out of their staging areas in and around Brighton, Rochford Street, West Street, and corral them further into Victoria Park where they are less of a problem to the surrounding residents.
Great! Maybe after they’re done using the wailer on the crows they can use it to disturb and move the drunks downtown who screech and pee and litter and throw up and make everyone’s life a misery.
Perhaps the city should adopt a couple of Bald Eagles
Bald eagles eat fish. I think you mean a falcon or hawk of some sort. I remember the crows when I was younger but they usually roosted in Victoria Park and not in the residential Brighton area. Something in the food chain is out of whack as the crow population seems to be booming.
They’ve got skills too. Next thing you know they’ll be picking the lock on your front door and raiding your cupboards for a square meal! Check this out: