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crows, 2021

You once saved a Crow from dying as a child. Even now that you are an adult, you still remember the Crow's words after you set it free back to its murder, "We… wiLL… RETurN… ThE… FAVor…"

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Walk walk fashion baby

🍬 Halloween Safety Tip # 1🍬 You’re never too old for Halloween 🎃 just make sure you don’t overload your bag with sweets or you’ll hurt yourself! Stay safe this spooky season🍬 A fun quick doodle between projects :)

Context: Im building a themed give and take cupboard, as a sort of combo btwn a free little library and geocaches

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There she is. The Duchess.

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How long do you think it will be before crows discover agriculture?  Surely they have the capacity to learn that seeds dropped in the dirt sometimes make more seeds.  They’re just a hop, skip, and a jump away from civilization, all things considered.

After about a decade of slowly making friends with all the local crows in our neighborhood by feeding them peanuts when we go out walking, and putting peanuts out on our porch when they’re watching us, about three years back a pair of crows started bringing their fledgling by our porch to get peanuts. He was nervous at first but they showed him that it was safe and led him through the steps of cautiously getting nuts. Like one of his parents (we’re using male pronouns out of laziness, we can’t actually tell the gender of any of the crows), he has a funny habit of ruffling up his feathers into a big puff-ball, something we’ve really only seen this one and his parent do. We called his parent Fluffy because of this habit, so the fledgling was dubbed Fluffy Junior, often called just Junior.

Junior grew up coming by our porch for peanut treats, and following Jack and me when we go out walking. He’s easy to pick out because he’s far less skittish around us than any of the other crows who come to us for treats, and because he’s continued to do the fluff-ball thing. At first he came along with his parents, and then eventually just him, and then last winter he started bringing another crow along with him who was a lot more nervous around us than Junior or his parents had ever been.

Then for awhile this spring, we were only seeing Junior or his very skittish mate, never both of them together, and about two weeks back we finally found out why – Junior has a fledgling! They brought the baby over to the rooftop that’s across from our porch and fed him there, within easy access of the porch treats. The crow we’ve known since he was a baby now has a baby of his very own, and is carrying on the tradition of introducing the baby to us young.

So today we could hear Junior and his mate feeding the baby across the way – and if you’ve never heard crow fledglings being fed, it’s a very distinctive noise that sounds like a crow is being loudly strangled, and if you see it in process, you’ll notice that one crow has a much smaller beak that opens much wider and is bright red on the inside. When you know what to listen and look for, you can pretty easily spot fledglings being fed this time of the year, and often hear it from as much as a block away.

We want to encourage Junior to keep bringing his mate and their baby over to our place (and hopefully outlast the work-from-home era of our hateful neighbor who comes outside and claps at the birds when they make too much noise), so we put out some peanuts and a little bit of cheese for them, which is their absolute all time favorite treat. 

We figured Junior or his mate would get the food and continue to feed their baby on the roof like they’ve done frequently since the beginning of the month, but instead the entire family of three flew over and landed on our porch, and fed the baby right there, about four feet from our door, while Jack and I hid behind the curtains to get a look without spooking them. 

That’s a show of trust that not even Junior’s parents attempted, and it’s so exciting to think that this third generation of this little family will grow up that comfortable with being so close to us. They’re still rightfully skittish about being watched too closely, and we would never try to approach them or touch them, but it is lovely to get to see them behaving so calmly from such a close distance.

Gosh I love my crows.

Chatty frends!!!!!!

The Secret Life of Crows

a friendly crow passing the ball in Japan :7

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I’ve just made a behavioral study on birds (aka. I’ve fed bread to pigeons and crows) and I’d like to conserve the results for posterity:

Pigeons can and will fight each other for even the smallest crumb of bread

When a pigeon picked up a bread crumb and other pigeons are nearby it will spread its wings to ensure the other pigeons can’t get close enough to steal the crumb™

The other , bread stealing pigeons might also spread their wings to make sure that no pigeon can steal the breadcrumb before them

They will steal it straight from another pigeons beak

Pigeons have no manners

They WILL fly at you and hover around your head once they realized you’re the one throwing the crumbs

They have no concept of personal space.

Crows on the other hand are civilized.

They will try to get to the crumb first but when another crow has reached the crumb before them they will accept this and leave them be

However if a pigeon reaches the crumb first they WILL go absolutely feral and peck the pigeon until it surrenders the crumb

Pigeons are reasonably scared of crows and won’t try to steal crumbs from their very pointy stabby beaks

Crows will wait for you to throw the crumbs at an appropriate distance because they do have manners

Unlike pigeons they will also watch you and look right into your eyes, expectantly

If a crow looks at you , waiting, and you throw it a crumb it will try to catch it just like a dog would

Pigeons however don’t notice shit until it lies in front of their face or they see another pigeon found something

Crows understand pointing, pigeons don’t

If the crows are satisfied they will fly away

Pigeons are never satisfied and therefore will bother you until the very end (aka. Until you don’t have any bread left)

They always hunger.

In conclusion:

Feeding crows is more fun than feeding pigeons because crows know the rules of society and pigeons don’t.

(Next Time on “birdhavioral studies” : “why seagulls fear neither god nor devil” )

In honor of the first frost of the year, I propose a new winter cryptid: the Snow Crow.

Who sparks those ice crystals along rooftops and cars?  If they’re in a good spot for sledding, it might just be a Snow Crow.

Inktober Day 16: Angular ! #inktober2018 #inktober #angular #art #birds #crows #shapes #myart #traditionalart https://www.instagram.com/p/Bo_esvHHJVN/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=15z18swtxis9y

I am especially in love with the crow who's going to cut you, and the crow who is teasing their catfriend, and the fam who are just relaxing among the sundial lupines

Crows are such people and I love them

silly little guys

"A Void" (new & improved legible edition!)

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There’s a void

In the trees

Calling in

the early morning

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A black mark

against the sky

A piece of night

flying in the daylight

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Shooting down

like stars

To take life

into its space

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It’ll die as all does

And briefly leave a trace

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It’s mouth

a sword

Speaking words

of the grave

~ “Be safe” ~

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A recent commission I’ve finished! (Don’t repost/use etc.)

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In addition to art, one of the things that helps my depression is gardening and plants. I hope to get some shelves up in the kitchen for our potted plants, because right now there are 13 containers and pots cluttering the counter and they get bumped often.

In the front yard we have over 10 rose bushes and a moss garden, and I try to plant wild flowers every year.

I spent some time today clearing weeds from directly around two of the rose bushes and noticed the first two flowers of the season begining to open!

I even got to watch a few crows gather sticks for a nest this evening. This is looking to be a good season.

Fast viking  thing that never got to the Character Design Challenge

Rocking Goat and vella from Galicia

i’m obsessed with this

and then, two months later....

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Seagulls are just beach pigeons and have limited grace, style, and cleverness, while on the other hand, corvids are sleek, fast, have phenomenal visual acuity, are super intelligent, and have other attributes that place them well above other birds. And a Crow (and its cousin, the Raven), will interact with humans quite nicely, although if you make an enemy of one, for whatever reason, be prepared to deal with the consequences. For a long time...

And then there are the supernatural components to a corvid, but that's a topic for another post...

Difference between a Seagull and a Crow’s accuracy | source

People can't keep calm until they know who's gonna play Wylan in season 2!

I'm people.