[Tweeters] Crows Tearing Up Grass in Auburn

[HAL MICHAEL via Tweeters]

May sound like a silly question but are you sure it is crows doing the digging?  We regularly get flocks of starlings who are digging up the European Crane Fly larvae.  They make holes in the ground with the bills and cover rather large areas of grass.  I am rather glad they do it.
 
Hal Michael
Board of Directors, Ecologists Without Borders http://ecowb.org/
Olympia WA
360-459-4005
360-791-7702 (C)
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> On 11/11/2024 1:47 PM PST Constance Sidles via Tweeters <tweeters at u.washington.edu> wrote:

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> Hey tweets, my understanding is that the crows are not responsible for tearing up lawns. The grubs are responsible by eating the roots of the grass. The crows merely turn over the divots. Crows are actually helping lawns but eating the grubs. - Connie, Seattle

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> > On Nov 11, 2024, at 1:30 PM, garrettwhaynes at me.com via Tweeters <tweeters at u.washington.edu> wrote:

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> > I wanted to check the tweeter sphere on a crow phenomenon to see if anyone else is having the same problem. The crows here in Auburn have been ripping up the grass around here. I mean really tearing it up and leaving huge piles and chunks of grass in their wake. Looks like aeration jobs from hell everywhere.  They've torn up sections of the grass by Auburn High School, parts of my parents yard, neighbors yards, etc. None of us have ever seen crows wreak destruction on grass like this before. We have heard through the grapevine it's because they are going after grubs, so maybe there is some unusually large grub crop and they are going crazy for them and tearing out the grass to get to them? 

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