We had crows nesting next door in a pine tree this summer. While the
youngsters were still in the nest, the noise was deafening. I also noticed
that the parent crows washed their food, or mixed food with water from our
bird baths for the nestlings. The result to our habitat was polluted
birdbaths, and I had to work overtime to keep them clean. (I probably don't
want to know exactly *what* they washed in the birdbaths.) When the
nestlings fledged, they spent several days in the tall firs and cedar trees
in our backyard before moving on. The fledglings seemed to be at different
stages of preparedness, one a pretty good flyer and the other very vocal,
and barely able to balance on a branch. It was an interesting couple of
months, watching the process from nest construction to first flight. As
typical humans, we couldn't resist naming the babies "Corvid" and "Cry
Baby."
Janeanne Houston
janeannesopranoatcomcast.net
West Seattle

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MacRae
Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 12:42 PM
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Subject: [Tweeters] crow stories


Hi, Tweets

I am back to writing about crows, summer crows, to be exact. So . . .
if anyone has any summer corvid antics or items of interest to
report, I'd love to hear them.

Turkey vulture report for July coming soon.

Cheers, Diann

Diann MacRae
Olympic Vulture Study
22622 - 53rd Avenue S.E.
Bothell, WA 98021
tvulture at vei.net

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