After a phone call from one of my permissions to help with corvid control, which is basically a 1mile lane through open farm land i went there after a 3month absence at dawn on a wet day last Friday. I parked up at a 'busy' spot with sparse sitty trees around the 40yard distance. After shooting my first carrion out of the car window, the air became thick with crow and jackdaws and I mean thick there must have been over 50 going mad, as fast as I could cycle the mag and shoot they fell, I emptied a full 14 shot mag with only one miss before they took flight. I have had something similar in my shotgun days but never to this extent, And they would rarely land. I wondered if it was something to do with time of year, nesting, territorial etc. I managed another 4 driving up and down the lane.
Has anyone noticed this kind of behaviour at different times of year?