Edible birds

[AngryHan 4]

I was wondering what kind of pest bird species would be edible. I'm the sort of person what would rather eat what I shoot. Pigeons are no-brainers, but what about other pest birds. Gordon Ramsay's F-word had a bit about cooking rooks but I've seen nothing about magpies, crows or jackdaws. Has anyone ever prepared these 'unconventional' birds?

[Millet 4,497]

I have not eaten any but i know some of the old timer's used to make rook pie's.

[billbroon 9]

Ive got a mate who eats everything he shoots and swears by crow soup, But he wonders why he cant keep a girlfriend.

Billy

[jimmy 76]

tried crow and jackdaw just put breast in pan way garlic and onions some butter and fry no bad

[CarraghsGem 92]

http://www.scottish-recipes.com/rook-pie.html

[CarraghsGem 92]

Rook Pie

 

 

6 rooks pepper and salt

3 hard boiled eggs ½ lb of rough puff pastry

1 pint warm water 1 oz butter

1 lb steak ½ oz of Cox's instant powdered

1 oz flour gelatine

 

Wash rooks well, taking care to remove the livers and backbones. Cut into neat joints and the steak into pieces, toss in flour, pepper and salt. Fry the rooks in hot butter and put onto plate, brown the steak, add warm water and simmer 1 hour. Put the rooks into the mixture and simmer for 1 hour longer. Boil eggs, remove shells and cut into quarters. Put the rooks, meat and eggs into a pie dish, pour gravy over gelatine and stir till dissolved. Pour over rooks and when cold, cover with pastry, decorate, brush with a beaten egg and bake ½ an hour. Pour in the gravy and serve cold. If using oven with automatic control, set at No8 or letter H

[Ideation 8,216]

Never been keen on eating the flesh of flesh eaters, especially carrion animals. But each to their own.

[craigyboy 1,274]

when i had hawks they had a passion for moorhens,so i tried em and they wernt bad at all

[derbyduck 27]

Never been keen on eating the flesh of flesh eaters, especially carrion animals. But each to their own.

Hi mate if you were left long enough in a Chicken pen they would eat you down to your bones ! enjoy .:sick:

[jasper65 6]

Once went crow shootng with a local keeper and bagged a few, on the way back a elderly gentlemen aproached us who lived near by and asked us if we had any rooks we didn't want? on that day all we had bagged was Jackdaws and crows so the keeper walked round to the truck and pulled a few heads off the dead crows and gave them to the bloke for the pot .

 

By all accounts this old boy had been taking them off him for years thinking they was Rooks but most of the time was crows. It turned out to be true as a few weeks later we shot some more and over he came again from his old cottage, "Have you got some more" he said "the last lot was deliciouse" :sick:.

[hunt 30]

I remember reading once that in the old days if grouse where short on numbers the numbers were made up with young rooks then sent down to London if it's true they be nice because grouse in my eyes is lovely

[AngryHan 4]

Once went crow shootng with a local keeper and bagged a few, on the way back a elderly gentlemen aproached us who lived near by and asked us if we had any rooks we didn't want? on that day all we had bagged was Jackdaws and crows so the keeper walked round to the truck and pulled a few heads off the dead crows and gave them to the bloke for the pot .

 

By all accounts this old boy had been taking them off him for years thinking they was Rooks but most of the time was crows. It turned out to be true as a few weeks later we shot some more and over he came again from his old cottage, "Have you got some more" he said "the last lot was deliciouse" :sick:.

Haha, what you don't know can't hurt you I guess

[neil cooney 10,416]

I used to shoot with an italian chef who told me in Italy you can buy 2 thrushes in a can from the super market.

He pestered me for some duck shooting so I brought him to a pool that I never seen ducks on and told him to work away.

I met him a week later and asked had he got any ducks?

He said "No, but I got 5 moorhens, which are nicer anyway".

[fat man 4,741]

I used to shoot with an italian chef who told me in Italy you can buy 2 thrushes in a can from the super market.

He pestered me for some duck shooting so I brought him to a pool that I never seen ducks on and told him to work away.

I met him a week later and asked had he got any ducks?

He said "No, but I got 5 moorhens, which are nicer anyway".

If that chef was with you last saturday eve he would be smiling,plenty to eat,lol.

[neil cooney 10,416]

Not ours Fatman, maybe yours. LOL.