Michael

A little note on crows and their peskiness. Recently I completed a season of work on a farm that grows garlic. The "seed" garlic cloves are planted in late October (here in South-Central Ontario) to produce the next year's crop. We had some trouble with crows (or possibly ravens also, there is a family group that nested on one of the farm's old silos) coming along and plucking out the cloves only to dump them back on the ground. The question is: why? They didn't eat them, and there doesn't seem to be anything to be gained from pulling them up. Plenty of earth was already being turned over by the tractor plow preparing rows for planting so searching for something where the garlic was planted doesn't seem plausible.