Omen of death

If you have ever run stands for coyotes you've been covered in crows,. It's easy to see the size difference when you get a murder flying around.

I have yet to eat the few we have taken. Not sure how to cook them or if you could jerkey them either.

This was a couple weeks with the 1 crow.

BPturkeys said:

Crows are delicious, after some of my blogs, I've had many a fine meal.

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Yeah. me too. lol

I've had my share of real crow though. We'd cook a few from time to time and crow was often offered at the many wild-game feeds held back where I grew up. I'd like to get a few crows to cook and then put up a thread in Recipes. Trouble is all of our crows are hanging around the city dump living on baby diapers and garbage. I gotta draw the line somewhere.

I've told this story a couple times here but I'll repeat:
I come from western Illinois where the big Rock River and the really big Mississippi River come together. Man did we have crows, no magpies or ravens, but tons of crows. Any time you cleaned a rabbit or a bird the crows would show up. We'd shoot a few now and then and eat some on occasion. The meat is dark and dry, kinda like dove or like pigeon. Crows can eat some nasty things so it's best to cook them well done; so they tend to be dry. (If you pick the bird, leave the skin on, it won't cook up so dry though).

For years a nearby town, Lyndon IL, sponsored the Annual Crow Festival. The Lyndon Fire Department and other locals would go out before the Labor Day weekend festival and shoot a bunch of crows, even some pigeons. The party sponsors would cook up all manner of crow dishes, many of them substituted crow with chicken; a few with pigeon. There was a carnival, crow arts and crafts, and lots of beer. The local fire departments held fire-fighting competitions. My dad was one of the fireman represented our hometown.

The Crow Festival in Lyndon fell out of favor and was discontinued sometime in the 80s. Last I knew the Crow Festival is held in upstate New York.