Crow Wars

I don't object when the crows visit our feeding stations for a drink of water, particularly in these drought times, but I....

....start to worry when they turn up in gangs, and even more so when our visitors are rooks as....

....these intelligent birds are soon moving on to the seed and fat feeders where, in no time, they've....

....worked out how to dislodge them so they can eat their contents.

It's a constant war, with me trying to think of new ways of protecting the small birds' food, and the crows quickly finding a way round my defences.

They've even invented the crows' version of a take-away, which is when, having dislodged them, they take the feeders home to the wife and children.