crow hunting

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I saw that show too. They not only recognized human faces but they teach their young to avoid them too. They have a special crow call for certain types of humans and other crow enemies.

That was a very interesting program. Animals are smart and we are just now figuring out how smart they actually are.

I have a Johnny Stewart PM4 and love to put the crow call card in it and setup a fake owl on a old tomato stake (stick) and watch them come to the calls.

The first time they were all over the trees above the owl decoy and some even dove down to attack the owl decoy.

They learn pretty fast that it's not real and I had to wait a few months and switch over to the Fox Pro caller to get them to come back.

Eventually they figure out that I'm just playing with them and they will come over but not get too close. They stay across the street in a big oak tree. But these are resident crows that area in my neighborhood daily.   

I now have a FoxPro Shockwave that allows me to adjust the pitch of the sounds in my calls. I need to buy some crow calling sounds.  I gave a speech in High School my Sophomore year about crow calling and predator hunting with crow calls demonstrated in the classroom. Another teacher in the class room next door to our speech class room complained to my teacher and I had to tone down my calls.  LOL   But everyone in that hallway got to hear what a crow call sounds like!!!.  I freaked the teachers out but my speech teacher was eating it up. She was cool and was in charge of the High School Pep Club where all the cute cheer leaders were. So naturally I joined that club so that I could meet and be around the cheer leaders   Ended up dating one of them for a while. She was very popular and elected to be our Home Coming Queen one year.  The next time I saw here I was drinking beer up at a bar near the Purdue University Campus with my good friend Mark Reiter.  Mark and I use to go hunting together when I was younger and still in college. Mark was a Wildlife  Biology Major I I majored in Environmental Science and Conservation of Natural Resources at Purdue.  I was a Pre-Veterinary Medicine Major for two years before that.  Mark is the current director of the IDNR Fish and Wildlife Department.   He's been with IDNR F&W since around 1976 when he and I graduated from Purdue University in the spring of 1976. We went to Mark's grand parents house in Wisconsin right after our last finals and went trout fishing and then fished for walleyes.  Fun times. Mike Fox went with us  Mike was a Wildlife Biology Major too. He graduated the same year and use to party with us during our senior year.  Mike is retired form the US Fish and Wildlife Agency and was an under cover enforcement Officer for them. He's now retired and running a restaurant from what Mark told me. Mike was in my Statistics 101 Class and we use to compare notes with each other to make sure we got the right answers. Stats class was basically taking data, adding and multiplying and dividing using formulas and lots of numbers to come up with data average and std deviations from the mean or the mode.  I had a great Teacher for that class. He was deaf or hard of hearing and actually showed us how to do the calculations and the story problems.  Not all teacher or Professor's at Purdue at that time took the time to do that.  So I found that by the time you got to the Senior year the Professors got a lot better. Freshman at Purdue University back in the 1970
s got a lot of Graduate Students teaching the classes and they were not nearly as good of teachers as the seasoned professors.  Mark and I had two classes together. Historical Geology and Wildlife Biology 350 which was taught by Dr. Weeks.  Weeks was notorious for giving hard tests. I mean you had to know the material backwards and forward. Mark and I both ended up getting "A". Mark actually got me to study harder than I did in the past. I use to goof off a lot more in school. Instead of studying I would head over to the Ice Skating rink or the indoor Swimming pool. There I would ice skate or swim laps or work in my spring board diving tricks.  I use to hang out with one of the Purdue Football Players and he and I would go too the indoor pool and practice our spring board diving tricks.  Roland was his name. He was pretty good for a big guy on the spring board. He could do a 1 1/2 flip in pike position with a full twist and did it well. He won the intermural Diving Competition one year when I was a Freshman. He lived in the same dorm and was in the room next to me and my roommate.  My room mate is now a veterinary pathologist working in TX studying Elephant viruses. Maybe he can find a cure for some of the diseases that kill elephants around the world. Allan and I use to work at life guard together and we too were drinking buddies in HS. Alan's brother Johnny was one of my father's students when he was in Grammar School and went to the same HS as Alan and I.  He went onto Purdue to study Veterinary Medicine and is a Professor at Texas A&M's Vet school last I knew. He's probably retired by now as he's older that me.  And I'm going on 67 in a few more days. I'd hunt and fish more but for my declining health.  I have a mass on my L1 vertebrae that's surrounding the nerve root that comes out of the L1 vertebrae in my back on the left side. I can't walk too far or stand up too long without getting extremely painful burning sensations in my left leg on the upper outer thigh area.  I have to go sit down to relieve the pain when that happens.  So my walking is limited now. And the mass which was found using MRI machine is not really in a place where my Neuro Surgeon can operate on it without making things worse. So I'm hoping that it will resolve itself now. Sometimes that happens my Neuro Surgeon said. 

If not for all the health issues I'd be out there in the field with all you guys.  I just got done with 44 IMRT treatments for prostate cancer and an receiving shots of Lupron which helps slow the growth of prostrate cancer cells so that the radiation treatments are more effective.  I'm on these shots for two full years and get a shot ever 4 months.  When I'm done with the two years of harmone treatments I hope that the cancer will be gone.