Driving up and down Route 60 North, and in many fields and neighborhoods in northern Muskingum County, the site of a horde of evil, giant crows swooping down upon unguarded garbage bags, massing in the trees, and lining fields is fairly common. They are everywhere.
When I heard the obnoxious screeching of many crows one morning last week, and the singular cry of a red-tailed hawk, I rushed to my back window, only to discover that depraved, black invaders had surrounded my poor hawk in the bottom of the driveway, overpowering him fifteen to one. Those bastards!
I flapped the curtains and the crowd of bullying marauders flew off in a big, black cloud, leaving the hawk sitting by himself, dazed, for a few seconds. The hawk looked around as if wondering how he had been saved, and then took off.
Red-tailed hawks hunt small rodents, and now in the northern part of this county, they are being terrorized. Crows do nothing except poop, and are often so proliferative, they destroy crops. So, they eat a few grasshoppers; so can my cat. Spring is coming and the crow population will be increasing, along with all their pooping on people and everything else. Already crows are running into cars on the Vets Memorial Bridge, and people have complained to me about the crows ripping into their trash bags, scattering trash across yards. Rotting garbage invites skunks, rats, and other critters.
These crows created such a problem in Coshocton County, that measures were taken to force the pooping curmudgeons out of Coshocton, and the crows now have taken up residence here in Muskingum County. How long will the Muskingum County Commissioners harbor these fugitives? I highly recommend you make a call to the commissioners, like I did, voicing concern and asking for a resolution to this problem before it becomes even worse.
