Here is some blue sky to dream about. That's part of a giant flock of crows that lives in a local park. Check out Fool-On-The-Hill's Flickr page for more bird photos. His are far superior to mine!
Oh and I promised a shout out to my friend's new blog. This lovely young lady used to date my son back in high school. She is studying photography and has started a new blog to document her journey. It's The Art of Photography.
I'm going back to cuddling with my cat. Hope you have a day filled with blue skies;)
Oh those crows...sometimes when we drive to pick up my husband from work, we see thousands of crows circling over the slough. It's amazing, and a little frightening :)
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1000 crows would recharge me! I love crows and ravens:) What a sight that would be!
ReplyDeleteWe have pouring skies today...rain/snow/rain/snow. Crazy! But I did notice a big old crow in the top of a tree. Love them!
ReplyDeletei love them too, i think they would make an awesome pet, so clever...
ReplyDeleteI walk among crows/ravens in the morning to work, every single day i see them they make me smile. Im with you Bobbi i'd be recharged seeing thousands, that would be such an awesome sight!!!
Here are some factoids from a recent issue of Iowa Outdoors magazine: *American crows will drop nuts or hard shelled animals on hard surfaces to crack them open, or wait for a car to crack them. They will drop objects to ward off threats, or on each other during play time, or even swoop down to catch them. *A group is likely called a "murder" because they have a habit of ganging up and killing a dying crow. *Crows are maybe next only to parrots in intelligence, may be able to count as high as six, can solve puzzles, and use tools.
ReplyDeleteThe most amazing fact is more personal- when my wife was a kid, her dad brought home two crows after a hunting trip. I don't know the details, but somehow he trained them. The crows would follow an older sister to school in the morning; and when her dad got off work they would be perched in nearby trees, then fly down and get in his truck for the ride home. Sounds crazy, but my wife simply does not make stuff up.
Rod, I totally believe it. There is a great book called "In the Company of Crows and Ravens"; I used to have it but loaned it out..... anyway, they talk about those kind of behaviors in there. I am trying to make friends with the neighborhood crows, but so far they just throw walnuts at me when they see me looking at them through the window!
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