Posted on 06/29/2011 4:27:31 AM PDT by Renfield
I once read about some researchers in the Antarctic, who would play touch football every Sunday. One Sunday, the researchers went to their spot to play and they saw some penguins lined up against each other and then the penguins would collide.
Are you describing a raven dominating a flock of crows, or just a super dominant crow?
From your post, the captured critter could be a Flying Democrat. After all, it squawks a lot, is capable of limited mentation and communication, and doubtlessly is poorly housebroken.
Used to be they thought the dominant crows were just dominant crows in the same species. More recently it was demonstrated they are a different species. However, West Nile Virus hit pretty hard in the East so we currently don’t have any large flocks like that.
One of my ex-supervisors told our work group while on break a time when he shooed some crows out of his backyard. From then on every time he went out the back, the assembled crows would stop whatever they were doing and start squawking as they gazed on the thing that had chased away one of their buddies. Then my supe said he started noticing bird doody on the side of his house where the crows roosted. He was convinced the crows had begun divebombing his house in retaliation for for his “aggressive” (in the birds minds) acts towards them.
I was eating lunch on the patio of a restaurant and a crow landed on my table and walked over and grabbed a french fry off of my plate. I laughed so loud that people were probably thinking I was crazy or something.
In one of Carlos Castenadas books, I vaguely remember him writing about how crows are actually silver, but our eyes percieve them as black for some wierd light refracting reason of some sort.
Not around my house. They have what we call ‘Crow Conventions’ in the woods behind our house. Fascinating to watch. Huge flock descends on the trees, sounds like they’re all arguing over something for like 15-20 minutes, then they all fly away!
I live just outside of Tacoma, and I can concur with that. We get HUGE flocks out back in the woods.
Best he did was 87, not quite a 834 crow day.
It may be either your hat or you wear glasses.
If you wear glasses and stare at the hawk, the hawk will focus on the whites of your eyes and your pupil. Some how, that looks like food.
Had two Kites give me a tree top, high speed fly-by last weekend. I was filling up a feeder in their zone and they were showing off. Heard the first as it passed and watch the second come in, then shoot straight up. They pick off squirrels at that feeder.
No hat, no glasses.
I think I was just running too close to its nest, though I couldn’t see it.
Either that, or I look like a handsome hawk and he was jealous.
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I bought some recorded calls and a robo-crow from CrowBusters; they work really well together.
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Oh, wait, that was the shrimp on the treadmill thingy.
Here is something for Old Crows (and all Vets to remember)
“VA Cemetery to Veterans: The Word “God,” “Jesus” are Offensive, no Longer Allowed”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2741483/posts
When I did cross that field, I did run, so it may have mistaken me for food, but I tend to think it knew better than to mistake me for a mousem :)
But at least now I know why, so thank you muawiyah for that information about the West Nile Virus.
I guess that depends on where you live.
Titanium and aluminum reflect ultraviolet quite well. So do most flowering plants ~ and bees also perceive ultraviolet light.
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