I watched two groups of birds going at discarded foam clamshells to get the food scraps inside. The gulls bashed their way through the plastic. The crows undid the slot and tab latches and opened the lids back.
I enjoy watching crows. Granted, they aren’t as much fun when they decide to have a gabfest outside your bedroom window at 0500, but their behavior is most interesting.
I have taken a particular liking to Blue Jays which are part of the crow family so they have much of the interesting behavior of crows, but have an added degree of goofiness to them that I find amusing!
I have a bunch (maybe 10) that have taken to sitting outside my office window waiting for me to open it and throw them some peanuts (in the shell) and the chess match between them and the squirrels is most entertaining.
And if I throw two peanuts out, if they are clearly different in size, a Blue Jay will pick the larger one up to fly off with and leave the other one there. (For a long time, they would try to pick one up and get it into their throat pouch so they could grab the other, but peanuts in the shell are too big, and they learned and don’t try anymore. It was funny to watch, they would try and try)
But if the two peanuts are close in size, it will pick one up, considering its size and weight, drop it, hop over to the other one, pick it to see if it is heavier, and if it isn’t, it will drop the one it has and hop back over the the original one and fly off with the booty!
So the crows are Republican and the Sea Gulls are democrats...
Always have admired crows!
I do like watching seagulls take mussels and clams, and they fly over the rocks dropping them to break them open.
But crows are even more interesting. I saw a video where there was a tree with some kind of nut in it, and the crows would pick one up, judge its weight, and fly at just the right height over a nearby roadway to cause it to crack open when it hit the asphalt so they could get inside when they dropped it. If it was thicker or heavier, they would go higher with it. But wouldn’t go so high that the nut would shatter and be spread out in all directions in pieces.
Just high enough to crack the nut, which they could then fly down and pick up to fly off with and eat at their leisure.
But that’s not all.
It was a busy four way intersection with a light, and they would wait until the light turned red and then drop it so they could pick it up without being hit by a car...
Clever birds!
he gulls bashed their way through the plastic. The crows undid the slot and tab latches and opened the lids back.
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Crows are interesting to watch. You can see they’re working things out.
Never harass a crow. Crows are very smart, and they have long memories. Once a friend, always a friend - once an enemy, always an enemy.