This made my day...

Eric , Thats what a 22 lr with a scope was made for , Crows.

In 1975 a law was proposed in Wisconsin to define the bounty method on several "pest" animals but crows were stricken out of it. Used to have crow bounties all over the place going all the way back to 1500's England. I think the last couple were in Cal and Michigan but they are gone now. It's actually illegal to kill them as they are protected under the Federal Migratory Bird Act. That would be another law of unintended consequences!! Efforts to have them, magpies, and starlings excepted have met with stiff resistance from.......well-you can guess who!

Recently, on another animal bounty note, they declared an open season with bounty for killing Pythons in the Everglades. The overall program, running for a couple months or so and attracting 100's of so called "hunters" (most were amateurs with guns but had no idea how to track a snake or what it was really like slogging through the Glades) didn't bag too many.

Come on Dave, yu wouldn't want to kill Heckle & Jeckle would you?:eek:
That's the only Magpies I know!:D

I'll quote what an old landlord said to me when I was talking to him one day and commented on the Bald Eagle circling overhead:

"Yeah, they're protected too. Last week that son of a B****h carried off my 12 pound rooster. If he gets close enough I'll protect him with my shotgun."

Since that rooster woke me up every morning at 4AM I didn't share his feelings but I sure understood them.

I would just tell anyone that found one that the crow shot itsself

Very nice, I have only seen one once in MI. Not even sure it was an eagle, if it wasn't it was the largest hawk I have ever seen.
One time at my house in metro Detroit every bird in the neighborhood was was squawking bloody murder, it was crazy. Me and my dog looked at each other like "WTF is going on here ??" I ran to the back door where most of the commotion seemed to be coming from, looked around and couldn't really see anything, but every bird I could see or hear was in an absolute frenzy, like there were flying cats or something.
Then I noticed some birds swarming a nearby tree, I scanned the tree and there sat the biggest owl I have ever seen. It was calmly sitting there gazing around while every other bird on the block was having a heart attack. Obviously, none of these birds wanted to be the owls lunch, and since its cover was blown so badly, it flew away after a few minutes.

But headed to Alaska in Sept and hope to see more

We have quite a few Bald and Golden Eagles here in Napa County, California. Pretty awesome to watch one take a fish in the creek behind the house!

As far as crows go, they are how I used to pay for my 22lr shells when I was a kid. $0.25 bounty. Now they are protected...

@Rick - you're guaranteed to see a bunch in Alaska, along with some of the most beautiful scenery I've ever seen!

Great video Robert! I get excited to see the occasional hawk here in suburbia. Coincidentally this morning I stepped outside for a moment to talk to my employee, and about 50 feet away two large red-headed woodpeckers alit on either side of a decaying tree trunk, in perfect silhouette in the morning light. They only stayed for a few moments as I fumbled for my cell phone camera but it was very cool to see something so unusual and so striking.

Keep that camera handy!

When we were kids we came across a very young great horned owl on a low branch when out hunting with our Dad. We kept its attention and he snuck up behind it and caught it in his shirt. About two weeks later we got another one pretty much the same way. We had them for years but they sure as heck could never be called tame. We fed them live crows, rabbits and fish mostly. We made up long tethers out of braided fishing line and would put them in an open area on a fence post. It didn't take the crows long to "smell owl" and show up in droves. That's how we got a lot of practice for trap and skeet shooting. The local social club had a stuffed crow made into a trophy and ran an annual competition for most crows bagged. Our owls gave a couple of local fellas a pretty unfair advantage. We had them about 10-12 years I guess. When the last one died we measured its wingspan at 55". I don't think doing that would "fly" these days :-)