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Does anyone know a good way to scare away crows?
I can't sleep, 2 crows arrived at 0500 and started calling each other or whatever.
They are soo loud I can't get any sleep, its almost 0825 and it's driving me insane.

Thing is, I live 5 stories high in an apartment. These crows are in a tree right in front of my window. I can't kill them unfortunatly, mainly because my country is mostly inhabited by bambi-crying treehuggers and I can't make too much noise or the neighbours will complain.

Sure anyone here has some genius aspie solution??

Make cat noises.

Scare they away??? I love crows! They are among the most intelligent animals on the planet. Hell, they're completely free to squawk outside my apartment anytime. Yes, I even put pieces of bread out for them sometimes.

Scare them away? I want to murder them!
Don't really care about their intelligence, pigs are intelligent and there is one on my plate practically every day!

Open your window and shoo them off with a squirt gun.

Open you windows and throw a bucket of COLD water at them =)

daisy/red ryder bb gun... you won't injure them, it will be nice and quiet, and if you miss, there will be no collateral damage so long as you don't hit a window or a sue-happy treehugging anti-gun prick (always make sure of your backdrop no matter what you are shooting)

or a squirt gun, like Aharon recommended, if you are able to reach them from that distance with it.

(edit: the maximum effective range of a red ryder bb gun is something like 10 meters, compared to the range of a supersoaker brand squirt gun, which is something like 6-7 meters... neither one is all that great for long range)

Feed them. They'll get bored at that place and simply move on. Squirting water will most likely make them curious. Had that problem few years ago with two magpies and they were fighting all the time!

There's actually one sound most birds hate. Yell into an empty can. Try to make it sound similar to a tin trumpet.

I have at times loaded my air rifle with q-tips and shot a few annoying birds. The range/accuracy is really limited, though (like less than 30 feet).

Earplugs?

We have a lot of crows where I live and sometimes they're noisy, usually with some crow-ish reason for it. They do that sometimes when trying to chase off a hawk or owl. A whole flock of crows will go after a hawk, and I've seen them go after a cat that had just caught something as well - maybe hoping to steal its prey - or maybe it had raided their nest.

They gather in large groups in fall and winter. Not sure where you live or what season it is there, but maybe this will provide some info that helps:

http://www.wild-bird-watching.com/crow.html

I love crows! I like to imitate their crow calls! For redrum, you could poison them.

A murder of crows -The collective noun for a group of crows.

OP, keep far away from poison. It won't kill the birds, as less at it kills mice, but it will kill the cats who find the birds and rodents an easy prey. Moreover, think just a moment about where poison finally ends up -- in drinking water and then in food, even vegan food. Every bit of poison man throws out will finally come back and land upon their own plates.

After all, what's the fuss all about? A few crows. Consider you were living near an airport or railway track. That's what I call noise.

I'm not going to use poison, that would be idiotic. There are so many ducks over here, it would be genocide
And seriously, I live next to the busiest canal in the whole wide world
And then there is this airforce base Apache and Chinook helicopters need to fly to every day on a low altitude, so I know enough about noises.

Crows are more annoying than any of them, its pure psychological. You know when a boat or helicopter is coming the sound is bad for a couple of seconds and than it goes away. But crows make those noises completely random. Your trying to sleep, and you know that animal outside is going to hurt your ears in a few seconds. And then again, and again. But you can never hear it coming, its the randomness that makes me insane. It's difficult to explain, but I think this is how Chinese Watertorture works.

I can't use BB-gun, because I don't live in America but in a country with the most severe anti-gun laws ever. Can't even own a see-through plastic BB-gun..
And for a water-gun. The tree is to far away, I can't even walk to it because it stands on a stand-alone dyke and the nearest bridge is 2 blocks away.
Think I'll try scaring them using the "yelling-through-the-can" technicue. And if that doesn't work I'll put a coin in it and rattle with the can or something. And if that doesn't work I'll give the damn animals a can-bombardment from which they will never recover.

Thanks for the help guys.

I understand what you mean about the unpredictability -- it's like noisy neighbors. All in a sudden they start stomping around or yelling while you're trying to sleep. Unfortunately, there's only one way to solve the problem -- if you can't stop the noise you need to either insulate your apartment against sound or use earplugs. Alternatively, did you check out if White Noise works for you? Anyway, good luck!

They'll only learn to copy you. Then you'll be kept awake by a bunch of crows meowing everytime they see you.




Would silicone ear plugs help you? It might be a safer option than waving around firearms of any calibre in an urban area.