Stone The Crows
As I drove into the property I noticed an unusually high number of crows gathered in large murders across several of the paddocks. I didn’t think much more about it until Craig (aka No. 12) mentioned the huge numbers of crows he had seen. Australia is “blessed” to have crows and ravens (both referred to as corvids), but to me and most others, they are lumped together as crows.
TEN of us converged on a mate’s sprawling 9000 acre property in Southern NSW to celebrate Maxi and Nugget's birthdays. We'd cut plenty of firewood as, being early winter, we were sure going to need it.
Sitting around the fire enjoying the late afternoon sun, I asked who was keen to go out for a shot. No takers! At the last minute No. 12 grabbed his Creedmoor and his “hair-scrunchie” and jumped into my Landcruiser. The first target was a crow out around 150 metres. As Craig was taking aim, I focused my binos on the black boy and a
