Posted on 05/10/2019 5:00:42 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
I wasn't sure at first what this turtle was doing. Had I known she was laying eggs I wouldn't have opened the patio door which made her run. Notice the crow hovering around the turtle. Later the crow tried to dig up the eggs.
This video has convinced me that I need a telephoto camera for recording my nature videos. The camera would also need web connectivity, specifically with YouTube as well as to be water resistant for use in thunderstorms. Please let me know your camera suggestions in the comments.
My requirements for a telephoto camera would be web connectivity with YouTube and it should also be water resistant for use in thunderstorms. If anybody has recommendations, please post them in the comments. Thanx in advance.
I thought this was a video about Mitch McConnell
Was the crow successful?
Crows - all the Corvids - are very smart birds. In my area, they kill more baby birds, either taking the hatchlings or stealing the eggs, than cats do.
I once watched a crow fly to a robin’s nest 3 times and each time flew away with a hatchling....
The fact they eat baby birds makes me detest them. I love all other birds except crows.
I hate crows. They are VERY smart and obnoxious. I am reluctant to shoot them and kill them because they are intelligent animals but I simply do what I can to drive them off. They seem to know that when I shoot my pellet gun near them that they are in mortal danger and leave.
As far as telephoto lenses go . . . .
I use mostly a Nikon D810 and not long ago bought the G2 version of the Tamron 150-600mm telephoto lens. It is not expensive as long lenses go but to me still at $1500 a bit pricey, but it is not a constant aperture which would be thousands more expensive. Anyway, to make a long story short, the lens is great, sharp as a tack even at 600mm. They make the lens for Canon and Sony and perhaps some other brand of cameras. I recommend this lens if you really want to reach out.
All Life in the universe exists and survives by consuming other life...the raptors don’t care if the rabbit they eat is a baby, or if they nab your baby pet. Raccoons and other animals will raid nests, too.
Water resistant and web connectivity, especially to YouTube? BTW, that is a bit pricey but since I am the Coupon Whisperer, I have my ways of knocking the price waaaay down.
Well, we eat baby cows aka veal.
We had pigeons nesting on our balcony; they were very tame. When the babies hatched, they let us come out and look at them and take pictures.
One day, one baby was gone. A few days later, we found the other baby headless in a pool of blood. We’re up so high, we knew it was crows; we figured something scared the crow away before he’d done more than take the head.
crow epistemology:
It has been observed that crows can count to three.
I use mostly a Nikon D810 and not long ago bought the G2 version of the Tamron 150-600mm telephoto lens. It is not expensive as long lenses go but to me still at $1500 a bit pricey, but it is not a constant aperture which would be thousands more expensive.
Water resistant and web connectivity, especially to YouTube? BTW, that is a bit pricey but since I am the Coupon Whisperer, I have my ways of knocking the price waaaay down.
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I like prices Waay down. Your welcome to share any of those kind of secrets with me any time.
As far as the Tamron 150-600, I did trade in a couple lenses that I was no longer using. Not that there was anything wrong with them but I never did really get the performance from my 70-300 Tamron that I wanted but the old non VC Tamron 28-150 2.8 was really a pretty nice performer until I got the Tamron 24-70 2.8 which is tack sharp. While there are a lot of parameters that are important in a lens if sharpness is not there then the others don’t really matter to me. I have heard photographers who say that some of us put too much emphasis on sharpness, nonsense I say, they just haven’t used a sharp lens/camera combination before. When I had the D800 I thought it was the sharpest camera in an FX size in the world until I saw an 810. Wow! Just wow. I might be willing to try an 850 but the 850 does not have a pop-up flash that I like to use with my CLS speed lights so, I’m stuck here, at least for a while. Yes I know I could always put the SB800 or 900 on the camera and control the others but that really adds weight to a system that already has a heavy lens and since I have the grip with an extended battery I don’t need the extra weight.
I hate crows, house sparrows, cow birds and blue jays.....
I have a bird house on the side of my house that for the past two years chickadees have been nesting in it. Last summer I watched as four fledglings finally left the house. Early in the afternoon I saw a blue jay with its head far into the bird house until I scared it away and I never gave it much thought since I thought all the babies had successfully left.
Three days later when I went out to clean out the bird house, I found a fifth baby dead with it's eye pecked out. It was that damn blue jay.......
Since then, I shoot them whenever I can when they're on the ground under my bird feeder......
Oh, and I also hate those damn starlings which I also shoot along with the sparrows and cow birds........
House sparrows frequently do murder to get another pair out of a good nesting spot. They make nice pets, though; I’ve reared several that fell out of the next still naked.
How and what do you feed them? Then how do you keep them as pets?
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE TURTLE EGGS??????
You can buy infant bird food - one popular one is called Kaytee ‘Exact’ Hand Feeding Formula - that’s usually at your local pet store.
But I never used it. I use Purina Cat Chow for house sparrows. Put some in a little container, and add some water so that it becomes soft. Then feed every hour or so as many ‘star tips’ as the little guy will take. There will be enough water in there to hydrate, too - teaching to drink on their own comes later, and eventually they will start eating on their own. You have to carry them around with you and keep them warm for weeks, until they reach fledgling stage and are eating on their own.
A vet once told me that Cat Chow was probably too ‘high test’ for birds, and told me to use Monkey Chow. But all the wild birds I’ve raised on Cat Chow have lived well beyond their alloted ‘wild’ time. House Sparrows usually live a couple of years in the wild; I had one who lived about 10 in captivity. (That was the one who liked to sing along with Perry Como’s Christmas Special ;-)
Please remember: there are only three ‘wild’ birds that you are allowed to take in the US, unless you are licensed in some area: Starlings, Pigeons, and House (sometimes called English) sparrows. I never take a viable bird - only ones who have been abandoned or otherwise can’t make it on their own and also can’t be released. Be prepared to give it proper housing and care over a long period of time. Pigeons, for instance, may live to be 20 years old in captivity.
Also, beware of taking very young pigeons - before they are ‘weaned’ their parents feed them ‘crop milk’ by putting regurgitated food down into their crops. You need knowledge and equipment to do that correctly as a human pigeon-parent and avoid drowning them. My pigeons have all been beyond that point when I received them, so I didn’t have to worry about it.
Baby birds will imprint upon a human; and you have to teach them everything - how to eat, drink, fly. All of my birds have imprinted on me, except one homing pigeon that I found down and unable to fly - he was too old, wasn’t trained well, and hates my guts. My other pigeon, taken from just before fledging, thinks I’m his significant other :-)
Um....Crow ate them?
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