Simi Valley Crows, Part II

I brought up the crows awhile back. Apparently, here in Simi, we grow them resilient, sassy and with an insatiable desire to talk to every other crow within a 5 mile radius right now. Really, RIGHT. NOW. All at the same time. And they don’t seem to want to ever leave and go south. Isn’t that what they are supposed to do? Go freakin’ south already! I need to sleep in past dawn! You’re messing up my beauty sleep! And we all know I need it.

I thought it would be a short-lived kind of thing, them being right outside my door and hanging out smoking in the alley. Like how long the sound of Pop Rocks lasts in your mouth or the firework show on the 4th of July or your turn on the XBox or older men without Viagra. But, no. No. This is lasting a really, really loooooong time with no signs of letting up similar to when you’re in college and the bank account is empty, the check is in the mail and all you have in the fridge is Grey Poupon (left over from a party 4 months ago when your roommate’s sister’s friend from Connecticut brought it over to go with the ‘finger sandwiches’ she brought and it was painfully out of place next to the Doritos), a couple of blue cheese stuffed green olives (which just might rise to the challenge and become your dinner, seeing as it’s a dairy, a protein AND a vegetable) and a tiny packet of grape jelly left over from a MickeyDs run the other morning). It is taking forEVAH.

Crows Part II

Here are three views of what my home looks like at 5:45 am and 4:30 pm every SINGLE day. If only I could help you hear the deafening sound…..

10 Replies to “Simi Valley Crows, Part II”

  1. I grew up in Canada where the crows got to be the size of chickens. Once a friend threw a rock and hit one in the head and killed it. Perhaps he could come to your yard and help out.

  2. You are NOT the only one. Before winter came and punched us all in the stomach, there was a crow problem here. RAVENS, maybe. I’m a senior, and have never seen anything like it before. They all flocked onto the Hall of Languages, which is the oldest building on campus, and sat there. Hundreds of them. Quiet as hell. Then all the sudden they took off in waves, screaming their god awful CAW, heard normally on the 6th circle of hell. It took 15 minutes for them to leave, and it was a continuous wave of them.

    I think their up to something. A bi-coastal take over?

  3. For some reason, it deleted the website. Go to ezraDOTcornellDOTedu and look at question seven in the March twenty third 2004 posting.

  4. As an expatriate of SV, I can testify on your behalf that the crow situation there is really and truly out of hand. But as long as I’ve known that city, which is going back now 22 years, it ALWAYS has been out of hand.

    Once we had a crow mistake our window for clear blue sky and just blammo, smash himself (or herself) dead on impact.
    That was a great day for us all. We jigged around the carcass. Not really, but we sure as heck didn’t cry.

    And by your pics it looks like you live near the hills too, on the fringes of the city. Yeah, that sucks. You’ve got no freeway noise to scare them away…not that it would.
    Good luck!

  5. i live in the south, and i can assure you, they are here. screaming and cawing all the damn time. mix in the bluejays and my back yard is hell.

    there is also a host of birds living in the bushes next to my house that lay silent until you close a car door. then they scream, take flight and crap everywhere…usually right next to your head. not fun.

  6. I remember the crows in SoCal. Now I live in Texas, and we have Grackles. They far outshine the crows in sheer numbers and decible levels.

  7. I live in TO (over the hill) and the crows evidently live ALL over the area. I’m up at 6:am EVERY morning because of them. Don’t forget, they’re minions of Sauron…

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