I like crows.
They taste like chicken.
Seriously, I admit I had dark violent thoughts about an owl that took up residence in the tree in front of the house.
Damn thing sounded like a woman being murdered.
I love nature, but admit that nature sometimes really really annoys me.
That would be strong incentive not to fall off and break a leg…
:lol: Punny!
We have turkey vultures and eagles (golden and bald) around our pastures. I generally count heads when I see them circling or focusing! “Everyone still standing? Good!”
I’ll admit, all wildlife is better on the farm than it was in suburbia, where everything seems to get messed up. Woodpeckers trying to peck into my roof, crows trying to get in the window, etc. Where I am now, there are proper trees and fences and pastures for them to do bird things. I think the crows are a lot of fun. Does anyone else count them?
One for sorrow
Two for joy
Three for a girl
Four for a boy
Five for silver
Six for gold
Seven for a secret, never to be told
Eight for a wish
Nine for a kiss
Ten for a life of endless bliss
I frequently see 8 – and my wish is that I’d see two more! :yes:
Daily trivia:
A group of crows is called a murder.
A group of owls is called a parliament.
Two fox is called a brace.
Has someone posted this and I missed it? A group of crows is called a “murder of crows”…
Ah, JSwan I was typing as you posted. We’re so smart 
Ah, crows. Interesting birds. I’ve sworn at them more than once and marveled at them at other times.
Some of you may have seen this video since it’s had over 5 million hits, but I found it pretty amazing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JiJzqXxgxo
Back in high school, I worked at a local park. While waiting on a woman customer one day, a crow suddenly swooped down and landed right on the top of that woman’s head. :eek::uhoh:
Woman had NO reaction. I hesitantly asked “Um, you DO know you have a crow sitting on your head, right?” She replied she knew something was up there but wasn’t worried about it. 
:lol:
No, it was NOT her pet crow. He did hang around for a few days, very friendly and riding around on employee’s shoulders and arms (no, no one wanted him/her hitching a ride on their heads). We called him/her Rocky, and we thoroughly enjoyed that crow for the few days s/he was around before departing.
Hubby did get very irate one morning when we spied a crow sizing up the barn swallow nest built under the barn overhang. The babies had recently hatched. He grabbed his gun, proclaiming “No one’s going to kill MY babies!”, but smart ole crow was gone by the time he opened the door. Not to worry though, Momma barn swallow had been smart enough to build where crows couldn’t fit:
http://home.comcast.net/~wec6/photos/Momma1.jpg
However, the barn swallows who built on our front porch weren’t so lucky, but their babies weren’t taken by a crow, but something a bit more sinister looking:
http://home.comcast.net/~wec6/photos/Snake2.jpg
Regarding vultures/turkey buzzards (is there a difference?), a bunch of them used to hang out on my neighbor’s fence next to a pond and dead willow tree, where they liked to roost. It was very eerie the morning I saw them all lined up on the fence, wings spread wide. Googled it and found out they were “drying” their wings. I got a photo a couple days later, but it isn’t as impressive since only a few are in the “dry cycle”:
http://home.comcast.net/~wec6/photos/VultureFence.jpg
I’m hoping this year’s crop of barn swallows all make it since the bugs will be especially bad after the wet winter/spring.
Shoot them.
It’s what I do.
We have lots and lots of crows and dozens of turkey vultures, along with blue heron, geese, ducks, fox, herds of deer, skunks, porcupines, a bobcat and an occasional moose or bear. They just have to cope. My horses love the deer and hardly look up, unless they jump right in front, and then you grab some mane and say, “oh, dear!”
I actually dislike the turkey vultures the most, because they are ugly and hang out at my water jump like a redneck bar. I’ve trained my horses to MARCH RIGHT TOWARDS THEM while I yell and wave my arms to scare them off. Then I give my horses a pat and a little sugar and go about our business. Interestingly, they are no longer afraid of them. In fact, today my horse saw them right after I mounted and made a beeline right over to them to scare them away (and these are scaredy-cat dumbbloods, so any horse can do it if they can.)
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LKF, crows and ravens (larger) are special and carry hidden messages for those seeking and listening. When I see a crow, magic is working in the area or there is magic in the air.
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I have a large number of black crows living on my farm. I’ve always hated them, but as of today, it’s now personal and I need advice on how to get rid of them.
Does anyone have a suggestion?[/QUOTE]
This is from the late Ted Andrews, Animal Speak
Keynote: THe secret of Magic of creation is calling
The crow and their other family member, the raven, have a great mysticism and mythology about them.
Black is the color of the night. Black is the maternal color & thus the black night gives birth to a new day. Although, the crow is a diurnal or daytime bird, it reminds us that magic and creation are potential very much alive during the day. In roman mythology raven and crows used to be as white as swans. In fact a white crow watched over Apollo’s pregnant lover at Delphos. One day the crow brought bad news to Apollo and was turned black.
To the Celts, the crow was also assoc w/creation. In Biblical lore, the prophet Elijah was fed by ravens and crows while hiding in the wildnerness.
Whereever crows are, there is magic. They are symbols of creation and spirtual strength. The remind us to look for opportunities to create and manifest the magic in life. They are messagers calling to us about the creation and magic that is alive within our world everyday and available to us.
It was said, to find a dead crow, was a sign of Good luck.
I hope this opens your heart a little more and perhaps you can see that our animal world has much more to give and share, if we would only be open to seek their wisdom.
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Whereever crows are, there is magic. They are symbols of creation and spirtual strength. The remind us to look for opportunities to create and manifest the magic in life.[/QUOTE]
On two different occassions I found baby crows and raised them. I have a charmed life to be sure 
Wonder where I’d be if I’d snuffed them out
Wow, you are blessed and honored by the crow family. They are very protective. When you see tons of Crows in the air together, they are usually catching off a Hawk or Eagle that has found their nest. They will create a “army” by their crow call to fight and move the wonderful Hawk away., it is quite amazing to witness.
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On two different occassions I found baby crows and raised them. I have a charmed life to be sure Wonder where I’d be if I’d snuffed them out [/QUOTE]
Last year, we were blessed to have a Raven nest in our trees. It was interesting to watch her fly below the tree lines for several hundred yards to enter her nest so that other birds would not detech her location.
As a non-american I often wonder about americans’ fondness for redundant qualifiers.
Horse back riding? As opposed to horse front riding?
Tuna fish? As opposed to tuna bird?
Black crows? As opposed to pink crows?
My little murder of crows likes to sometimes harass Gwen (resident area red shoulder hawk). She puts up with it for so long…then flips in the air and slaps one around a bit. It’s kinda funny.
Although even funnier when the little barn swallows dive bomb Gwen…it’s like watching heat seeking missiles out-flying a military transport flying bus. :lol:
And I’m way happy with the swallows today. The unbearable early heat apparently finally got them in a pissy mood and both were knocking the hell out of the annoying sparrows! Yay! They shut that loud destructive male right up.
There is a good reason to call them a “murder of crows”. They eat songbirds babies at a rather voracious clip. There is a season on them in various states. They are very numerous and obnoxious around here and harrass the little birds whenever they can, walk around the parking lot at the grocery store looking for garbage and generally raise a ruckus most of the time. Not my favorite bird, let’s say.
I hate to disagree with the majority here, but I say shoot em.
My dear, you can tune a piano, but you can’t TUNA FISH!
I love crows and ravens. I feed them leftover peanut butter toast on the roof every morning and I hear about it if I don’t!
The crows gang up on the much larger ravens and chase them about.
I am not so terribly fond of the eagle though. Half a rabbit fell out of a tree onto my sidewalk this morning.
Here’s a puzzle for all y’all to solve:
My friend is a Lakota.
On his front door is a sign that says, “No Crows Allowed”.
Why is the sign on his door, and what might my friend’s last name be?
Go.
Lakota and Crow are traditional Indian enemies,
Crazy Horse …Sitting Bull ??
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