Does any anyone know how to get rid of rooks humanely?

[Wildforms]

Hi,
we have a small beautiful woodland behind our house, but the downside is that it has a rookery and the rooks just dont shut up all day. We love our wildlife and wouldnt hurt anything, but we could do with moving them on to somewhere elso or at least restricting their numbers. Does anyone have any ideas?

[Garden Carpet]

I think you should just enjoy them being there. They can be quite entertaining.
jaki

[Ollie]

We have a Rookery about 150 yards from our house. I can see where you are coming from about the noise, but to be honest I would not not want to move them on. I think we would miss them. They can be as Garden Carpet says very entertaining, and the way I see it they were actually there before my house was built so that's fine with me. Wouldn't know how to persuade them to move on anyway.
Roger

[Paul mabbott]

Only by chopping the trees down. Sadly, quite a lot of people do this .....
Look on the bright side - you could be living under the flight path to Heathrow ...

[Beryl]

We had a pair in a tree at the back of our garden (before I moved) and we used to watch them bring up their young and I have a video with them on the end of it .It was really wonderful because it also taught the children that all birds are wonderful.

[brainfarmer]

im a great fan of the corvids and iwish i had a rookery near me. they may be a bit noisy but if u watch them and enjoy them then the noise seems to be less annoying.

[Madelinew]

Or call in Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall....

:-)

Personally, I love rookeries but my husband was quite relieved when I pointed out that the solitary nest in our oak tree was being built by a pair of crows.

[nightshade]

Some people just do not know when they are lucky! why not study their life
cycle or just enjoy them.Rookeries can be hundreds of years old so you must
have known it was there
When I was a child on holiday in Yorkshire with my grand parents the Highlight
of my day was a half mile walk to watch the Rooks settling down to roost, a
process which could last until darkness settled in,fascinating

[Hobjob]

In the breeding season you would be breaking the law
by disturbing breeding birds - not so sure about the
rest of the year.

[Kayleigh]

We used to live on the main A5 road in Derby, we had lorries and traffic on the rounderbout 24-7 give me rooks any day.