Dennis Paulson wrote:

>Unfortunately, there seems to me to be two similar C-problems: the cats on
>the ground and the crows in the trees.

Having learned just about enough to start being dangerous to myself and all
around me, I have a few crow questions. I've been lead to believe that
there were the 'real' native puget sound crows (subspecies? variety?
race?), and an invading version from back east that is a good bit larger.
Is this true, and if so, how completely have the bigger ones taken over,
and where? Are there any 'natives' left in Seatle? Are the bigger ones
more aggressive predators than the natives?

Cats at least can be fenced out... Is there anything legal to be done to
discourage crows from hanging around? Do they react to falcon recordings,
or are they big enough to only get annoyed? Are there any falconers in
Seattle who would like to train their birds in my driveway? Plenty of
tasty starlings and house sparrows, too! :-)


Allyn Weaks
allyn at cornetto.chem.washington.edu aka allyn at u.washington.edu
Pacific Northwest Native Wildlife Gardening:
http://chemwww.chem.washington.edu/natives/