Thanks guys,
I 've been thinking of wrapping something around the black "broom stick" 's barrel.. hehe. Wrapping the same material over the barrel sounds like a good idea! thanks.
What? catch a crow alive? I really like my fingers intact, thank you :-) Their beaks are the length of my pinky.. they can do a lot of damage. I wouldn't even attemp it with work gloves. They carry West Nile disease.. you just never know. Ask Jeff what happened to his hand when he picked up a squirrel last year that he thought was dead!
Jeff: The blind material you recommended seemed to have worked today and yesterday, thanks for the recommendation! I 'm going to try a Springer next and stick the barrel through it like you did with the Starlings. The Condor's shroud is too thick to fit through it.. unless I cut out a hole big enough which is what I might have to do. I 've cut out a large piece to fit over the window and I doubled it up so I get double the camoflage. With a single layer my wife said she could see me no problem when she was out back, but when I put another layer on, she said she could hardly make me out.