OH man that sucks, you did get me pumped up though.. I love stalking game.. Not sure how well you hit him, but from being a parrot owner I can tell you.. a birds blood does not clot well.. so poorly in fact that if you pluck out a "blood feather" and don't stop the bleeding a bird can and very often will bleed out in minutes... I bet that crow is dead just outside of where you shot it.

I have never heard of anyone shooting a hooded crow in America.. I did a quick Google search and a couple of sites came up with users claiming they've seen "Hoodys" in the U.S. I can tell you... if I see one and have the chance to harvest it.. it's going on a piece of driftwood.

If it weren't for the black head I would say it looks like our bluejay?  It would make a beautiful mount and a rare one at that.

Maybe your day is near.  You know what they say, where there is one there is another!

Zeddicus wrote:

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Hi Reddich,
Did you get the MID in the end? Without it, I'd still be Magpieless! :)
It's great for stirring things up. Unfortunately SAM is so bogged down with the FT3 that he can't deliver the MID at present...
Rgds from sunny germany ;)
Z.

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Yep, I got the MID call too. Unfortunately, as with most calls here, doesn't work unless they are intent on commiting anyway. The best is if they are thinking of commiting, then give a short balst. But if they are just flying past they just call back and carry on their way Would love to be able to use electronic callers here, but again, would need one in the correct dialect. Mate had an American one, and didn't work well, so he recorded locally, installed that, and works perfect. He just has to make sure he doesn't get caught LOL

-- Edited by Redditch on Sunday 28th of October 2012 05:35:37 AM