"Cynthia" wrote in message
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Well, the crows probably don't see it as stealing, but they've recently
taken to flying off with the pebbles I've used to mulch around pot plants.

Does anyone know why they do this?

They've been doing it daily for the last two weeks. I run out there
whenever I see them, but they don't take me very seriously, they're
normally back in the afternoon.

Sometimes the pebbles they take are surprisingly large, but most of the
time they're around 3-4cm in diameter.

I thought that they might be curious about them because of their egg-like
shape, but you'd think they'd get over it when they got no food from them.


Cynthia.


They are a bit like Bower birds they like the colour blue. A friend had his
greenish/blue peebles stolen by grows. He gathered those up and replaced
them with some other colour. No problems since.

I also remember when the coloured golf balls were popular that the crows
would pick them up and fly off.

Here in WA that have declared rainbow lorikeets as a pest and are going to
start culling them. It was also mentioned that the crow population had blown
out and that it was on the cards they could be hunted as well.

Richard