[Cowboy Bob]

My car used to get gifts from birds, until I learned not to park beneath a particular tree.

[Celtic Conservative]

Most species of crows are very intelligent.

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[thesligoduffyflynns]

I’m surprised the Beeb let this one out - this little girl

could possibly be taxed or axed by muzzie run UK and by that

I mean this news from the Beeb as nice as it is sanitized.

Good for this little girl & carry on!

[cynwoody]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JY8-gP3Sw_8

[cynwoody]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_8hPcnGeCI

[Salamander]

I love crows.

[cynwoody]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5NuBk5_Izc

[SWAMPSNIPER]

The more I watch critters the less surprised I am by evidence of rationality.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

http://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2015/02/24/lkl-foster-octopus-crab-battle.cnn

[Berlin_Freeper]

Today we are going to the zoo. They have have a section for a petting zoo were you can feed the animals. Last time we were there I was trapped against a fence by an angry midget pony attacking a baby goat till a large lady quickly ran over and broke them up.

Don’t think I ever been to the zoo in February before but it is a nice day and should not be crowded. :)

[driftless2]

One of my supervisors at work used to have a problem with many crows gathering in his yard. So then he took the garden hose to them.

Shortly afterwards, he noticed that when he went outside the crows perched on the wires outside the house stopped cawing. Later when he went outside to check his property he noticed quite a bit of bird poo on the side of his house.

[exit82]

Don’t like crows.

They bully the smaller birds at my feeders and they vacuum up all the food.

I shoosh them away so the regular birds can eat.

Little vultures.

[niteowl77]

Crows do have an amazing ability to figure out certain things. Many years ago, a friend of mine concluded that the local crows began avoiding him whenever he "woods walked" with a rifle or a shotgun, so he switched to a holstered .22 pistol and had some success… at least for a while. Then he switched to carrying the pistol under a jacket, which was also a temporary success. He kept trying different dodges, but eventually came to the conclusion that the crows continually upped their powers of discernment to the point where they recognized him as an individual.

Mr. niteowl77

[Chainmail]

Birds are cool and a lot smarter than we give them credit. When I was a kid I rescued an injured baby English Sparrow. She stayed with me after she healed up and even rode on the handlebars of my bicycle while I was delivering papers on my paper route. I trained her to fly to whoever I pointed to and then kiss them. I did that to some old Italian priest that was a friend of the family without knowing that Italians are really superstitious about birds. That old guy had a complete panic fit and threw Holy Water all over the place while yelling in Italian until he finally calmed down and realized that it was my pet.

Then I had to put up with the "you are the Saint Francis of Assisi" stuff from him afterward..

[Hatteras]

[momtothree]

What a sweet and precious little girl! It is sort of fascinating that she has this relationship with nature. A budding little scientist...

[Hatteras]

I was in Seattle for the first time just recently. I was surprised at the number and how obnoxious and brazen those crows were. I was walking along the shore taking pictures at Lincoln Park in West Seattle and there were a couple of picnic tables. I needed to change out my lens so I walked over to the tables to sit down sort through my camera bag. As I approached, there were three crows on the nearest table and I assumed they would fly off as I got to the table. As I put my bag on the table, one hopped over to the other table and the other two just sat there, cocked their heads and looked at me like I just crossed over to the wrong side of the tracks. LOL! Ohhhh...kay.... I'll just have to find another table, I guess...

Kept turning around to make sure they weren't following me, snapping their fingers to the beat like they were in West Side Story. When you're a Jet, you're a Jet all the way...

[Terry L Smith]

For those of us who put out some bird seed, whether in bird feeders, or on a patch of ground near, but not too near, our abodes, we ‘get gifts’ at times, too, but we might not be aware of it.

If you do leave out bird food, you might find a loose feather, looking like it just fell there. Actually, an old Native thought on this, is the bird(s) means of saying ‘thank you for the food’.

In a morning’s watch, (peeking out the door to where i strew the seed), I have counted a locally nested flock of 36 sparrows, 6 locally nested white tipped doves, a family of 6 blue jays, a pairing of cardinals, and a few juncos of battleship grey variety. All in ‘shifts’, and the doves come through on patrol. And Spring is coming, so how many more once they all hatch?????? i might need more bird seed, huh?

[workerbee]

Around here people would freak out and worry about West Nile virus.