While at Fort Worden yesterday for a family gathering I spied crows doing something very unusual.

Driving down the beach was a man in a blue car with its sunroof open. Escorting this car were about five or six crows. One crow was above the car, one behind and two on either side. Another bird flew back and forth in front of the car. The birds were all keeping pace with the vehicle and stayed with the car all along the beach road. The birds were "cawing" as they and the car moved along the road.

About fifteen minutes later the blue car and three corvid escorts returned past our group. This time the sun roof was closed.

Could the birds have been playing "lets drop something inside"?

Speaking of corvids, last week at Deception Falls off US Hwy 2, my husband and I came upon three dumpster diving ravens. The birds hopped off the dumpsters and just waddled down the trail - squawking as they plodded away. The birds were well down the trail before they flew off. In a few moments the woods was filled with the squawking and gronking of ravens.

Lydia Bishop
Everett, WA