Strange Hunt Last Night.

[Brooksy]

I took the Rapid out last night looking for squirrels at dusk. As I walked the field toward the woods I spotted a crow at the edge of the field. As I got closer, it hobbled away, obviously unable to fly. It looked in distress, so I did the humane thing and dispatched it. A little later, another one in a furrow in the same field, unable to fly and flopping around, again, a quick dispatch.
I've never come across two injured crows on the same field, at the same time before.
All I could think was that the farmer may have been out earlier with his shotgun and maybe winged a couple as he shot into a group of them.
Anybody got any thoughts?

[Kernal]

Well,

In my opinion, and I think a lot of people could say that I've changed in a lot of ways!

I think—and I'm not too sure about this, as it comes with a lot of responsibility—that I would have tried to help the crows and support them on the next part of their journey, with whatever life they have left.

But that's just my personal view and my call on it.

You did ask!

[Ca_Varminter]

Well over here on the Otherside of the Pond...
About 2010 the effects of West Nile Virus start to Kill off the larger birds..
Where I live in Ca.. There used to large flocks of Crows and Magpies.
They would fly from the Rivers to the Night Roosts in the Orchards around me!
Slowly the number dwindle to Present day... You see on a few.

So on in the fields, you would find a few dead Crows on a couple that to weak to fly..
We are requested by the health dept to Report them and do not approach.....
The Mosquitos around them may be the infected!!

Stuart