Any advice for scaring crows

[rkrivas]

Hi --

Over the past week or so, crows have chosen our yard as the yard to tear apart this fall -- they're pulling the grass out in the sections that browned over the summer and there are huge chunks of dirt everywhere.

Do scarecrows really work? Are there other ways to scare them off? If we're home, we chase them away, but both my DH and I work, so we're not always here.

TIA

 

[Cantw8]

Here, you can borrow this picture of my mother-in-law. That should do the trick

 

[LisaS]

That happened to us once. I looked out in our back yard one morning and it looked like the lawn had been vandalized or at a minimum, like someone had taken a rototiller to it! Eventually we saw what was going on. Our lawn had turned brown due to a drought and the crows were pulling on patches of dried grass and flipping them over. Turns out they were looking for grubs and we had tons of them! So I think you don't really have a crow problem so much as you have a grub problem. If there were no grubs in the lawn then the crows wouldn't have any reason to flip over patches of grass like that.

So -- they'll either stop once they've picked your lawn clean of all the grubs or maybe you can find some way to get rid of the grub infestation and then the crows will have no reason to keep "excavating". In a way, they are kind of doing you a favor since it beats pouring a bunch of toxic chemicals on your lawn.

In our case, the entire lawn had died so the following summer we had someone come in and completely reseed it. We now have a full, healthy lawn and the only crows we see are the ones raiding my platform bird feeders.

Good luck!

 

[Lil_Tink]

I dont know, just bumping.

 

[rkrivas]

That happened to us once. I looked out in our back yard one morning and it looked like the lawn had been vandalized or at a minimum, like someone had taken a rototiller to it! Eventually we saw what was going on. Our lawn had turned brown due to a drought and the crows were pulling on patches of dried grass and flipping them over. Turns out they were looking for grubs and we had tons of them! So I think you don't really have a crow problem so much as you have a grub problem. If there were no grubs in the lawn then the crows wouldn't have any reason to flip over patches of grass like that.

So -- they'll either stop once they've picked your lawn clean of all the grubs or maybe you can find some way to get rid of the grub infestation and then the crows will have no reason to keep "excavating". In a way, they are kind of doing you a favor since it beats pouring a bunch of toxic chemicals on your lawn.

In our case, the entire lawn had died so the following summer we had someone come in and completely reseed it. We now have a full, healthy lawn and the only crows we see are the ones raiding my platform bird feeders.

Good luck!

That makes a lot of sense... I couldn't figure out why it was only happening to my yard and no one else's. In the meantime, I'll use Cantw8's picture!

 

[Sparx]

get a cat.

 

[Loubon]

Get a clown