crows

[fabsroman]

The number of crows in Maryland is utterly nuts. I live by a flyway, and the buggers roost in downtown Rockville and Bethesda during the night by the 100,000's, if not millions. They are smart too. Nobody can legally discharge a firearm in Rockville or Bethesda by county ordinance, and rightly so because there isn't a farm in sight. The crows then fly up I-270 where nobody can shoot at them because both sides of I-270 are built up. About the only place the get into trouble is when they get up to my place and enter farm territory. A friend and I used to skip law school class in the morning and hunt them a couple of miles down the road from me. That was some great fun because we were in their morning flyway path. Killed 42 in one morning and then went to class. My dad and I tied that record one day using a crow calling tape. Sad thing is, my friend and I didn't have a tape the day we killed 42 because we were both poor back then. We used mouth calls and stuck a crow decoy up high in a metal pole along a fence line. Those crows couldn't resist flying by that decoy.

Our crow season goes from August 15 to March 15 on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Groundhog season is year round and I don't think a license is needed.