Keeping Crowes/Ravens of My ROOF!!!

UGH I HATE crow/ravens. horribly smart birds. I think the owl thing will work for a day or two till they figure out that it won't attack. I would call animal control and ask what you can do.
Lol So I'll tell you my run in with ravens. I was camping in Southern Utah and we left our campsite to go on an all day hike, Everything was in giant plastic boxes with LOCKING lids. When we came back EVERYTHING but the marshmallows were all over our campsite with the ravens flying over head and some still picking at the bread. Yeah, not a fan of the stupid birds. Thank goodness it was our last full day other wise we would have had to leave early to get more food.

We get starlings in the spring and fall when they migrate through.
A huge cloud of them will descend on the yard and the grass is practically black with them. When ever I see them I'll step outside and clap loudly a few times (like a gun going off) and the whole cloud takes off in a hurry.
Crows and ravens are protected by federal law, actually shooting them could get you in trouble, although some places have a limited hunting season on them. I don't think starlings are protected in any state. They are pretty much considered to be vermin.
It's getting a bit colder now, so you might not be able to do this without your hose freezing up, but if you could get a hose up there with a motion activated sprinkler (like they use to scare dogs off lawns) and attach it to your roof, it should spray and startle away the birds when ever they come in to land. It's less complicated than covering your roof with rubber spiky bird matting which makes it too uncomfortable to land on (I've seen these spikes on ledges and some other places around museums to keep pigeons away).
You could try this, but I have no idea how well it works:
http://crowbegone.com

I wonder if you have some insects nesting in your roof that the birds are trying to eat?? Perhaps contact a pest control company and see what they can find??

Thanks for the help and link to the Crow be Gone website. We've been using about a week and couldn't be more please.
Hope your crowing problems end soon for you.
Bev and J.

I had the same issue till I ran across this unique item. Http://www.crowbegone.com/about_us.htm Maybe it might help you like it did me. Either way at least they do offer a money back guarantee.

We had pigeons roosting in the eves and filling our gutters with birdcrap. My husband put up some netting and then used a bb gun. Talk about aim, he thought he needed two shots. The first killed it, the second went through our new gutters! :)

I would try some wire/netting, and you can also ask a local home improvement or nursery type place for suggestions.

Oh, don't fake owls chase off something? Not sure if it is crows or not.

I suppose you could throw some toy snakes up there. I had this problem myself. We used a water gun cause we didn't want to accidentally shoot something we shouldn't, me really, I don't have good aim either. The only thing that helped us was to get a dog who chased these birds. I know she couldn't get on the roof but they left after we got her cause she would chase them in the yard.

Also you might want to check if there is a food source in your yard some where. One of my dogs died and the other ones didn't much care if the crows shared their food. (My sheep dog lured the birds into the yard for some extra meat). I was not to happy with my other dogs, but they liked the idiot birds that were tearing up my shingles on my roof.

sounds funny...but a friend of mine put tinsel all over his roof to keep the birds off....its working

We were at a local restaurant and saw these.. they seem to work pretty well.. The birds were spooked by the owls and stayed away from the outdoor eating spaces.. You could place one on your roof.

Edge Prowler Great Horn Owl Decoy
http://www.google.com/products/catalog?hl=en&safe=off...#

i just had some here making an awful lot of noise on my roof. When I walked out on the deck under the area they were mingling, they flew away but came back afer a few minutes. I picked up my table umbrella and untied it so it can flap in the wind and stood it up in it's base just a couple of feet from the roof. I did not open the umbrella, just stood it in its base, separate from the table and it began to move around a little in the breeze. I think it acts like a scarecrow, because thely flew away and did not come back after putting it up. I this case, since i have a deck, the top part of the umbrella is higher than the lowest part if the roof.

What about a scarecrow???? I'm only half joking! With it still being so close to Halloween, you could probably get one cheap (so that if it doesn't work, you're not out alot of $$). I have no idea how you'd hitch it up to the roof....

In AZ, we have lots of flying rats (aka pigeons). People keep them away with large, plastic owls, plastic snakes and "pigeon stakes" which are plastic spikey strips that prevent them from landing/roosting in specific areas. Not sure if these things will work for birds in general, but they work to keep pigeons from roosting in eaves, on roofs, etc.