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Crows, Contest Killing, and Communication

10,000 Birds

After scrolling through piles of furious emails regarding a recent blog about Rip Van Winkle’s Crow Killing Contest , it seemed to me that all of us needed Dr. Phil. You can see the comments from both sides by scrolling down after the blog’s conclusion. A late-posted blog comment was both revealing and chilling.

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ACTION ALERT! Tomorrow, MARCH 15, 2011, is the deadline for public.

10,000 Birds

Nationwide, wildlife watchers now outspend hunters 6 to 1. Giving a few hundred hunters something else to shoot, in my opinion, cannot be worth the blowback from tens of thousands of people who are willing to travel and spend just to watch the birds fly over. I did email Jon Gassett with no problem. I overlooked the date.

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