ravens/crows

[angora]

Has anyone a raven or crow anecdote to share. I am writing a fantasy about the adventures of a cat and have a section where he encounters ravens. I would like some action for this portion.

Id appreciate it if anyone who could would post any observations etc here.

thankyou

[peapod]

Sheesh! where to begin I dare say one of most favorites of feathered friends, although the raven is more solitary, don't really see them hanging around tim hortons. A friend gave me some acorns that he had fashioned out of some cedar bits, they were lovely and could easily be mistaken for nut meat...anyhos..I thought they would look nice in a cast iron leaf that was in my garden..garden art if you like...I started to notice that my nutmeats were disappearing, bafflin twas...than one day..as I was sitting in trance ohming from my gonads..when a crow flew down and scooped a wooden acorn...No doubt he dropped it off the highest building he could find..than splat! nut meats...I have seen them do this often..Although in this case..no yummy bits..

[angora]

great story peapod - I'd love more if you have time.

Do you read sf? The reason I ask is there is a series by Julian May that has a character named peopeo mox mox burke and everytime I go to type your nic I nearly go on and type peopeo mox mox burke. Isnt that a great name?

[peapod]

I wouldn't mind scarfin that name for myself I can't say that I do read science fiction, although I am a fan of science fiction movies. When visiting grandma house whist a lovable youngster ( long since passed) there was never anything to read, cept piles of harlequin romance, not much tatters and meat in those. Fortuneatly, in the basement was a bookcase filled with isaac asimov books, left behind by uncle. My favorite was the story of the ugly little boy.
Perhaps this will assist you in your crovids research.
http://books.google.ca/books?id=1QN1ypv ... t&resnum=1

[Dana]

Hi Angora,
Perhaps you already know this one?

I heard an interview (CBC am) of a man who had visited the Charlottes and while spending some time at a beach, he spotted an albino raven a ways down from him. He carefully got a little closer and raven flew away a ways, just a little way, to keep the distance the same. The man did his gentle approach a few times and gave up as the raven kept a certain precise amount of distance between them
until
the man just sat in place and made no more moves toward the bird, the bird then, out of curiostiy approaching the man as he sat, for a closer look.

Ha Ha. I like that kind of yin/yang story.
And
not Raven but Crow story in the news last year Spring I think, where crows were attacking people coming and going from a public building in Burnaby maybe, where the Crows had a nest in a tree close to the building's entrance.

Crows like open spaces best tho they will come in close under trees for a tid-bit which is a good strategy if one wishes to feed a few crows in the park rather than their co-habitants of the beach the sea gulls.
Ravens will nest or hang out in trees in the forest rather than the open places.
They both like to snack on road kill for breakfast -thank goodness ! A rural mail carrier said once that Mondays were the worst for the carnage of animals dead on the road as an aftermath to the extra night traffic.

Oh yes, and then there was Craven, a raven I noticed one winter when I used to go to the beach in winter on those days when no one else wanted to be there because the weather looked nasty. I kept a bag of dog kibble in the car and also got nuts in the shell on sale at xmas time because it seems more natural. I loved seeing the crows carry their peanuts in the shell of to take it apart somewhere on the drive out.
Craven was more tame than any Raven I had seen before tho would not let anyone get really close, he would come for bits of food. I never met any other Ravens there and certainly never one who hung out for food like that there or anywhere else. They seem to be more wild or have more pride or something.. ??

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[Dana]

And this here is a pic of a seagull in Scotland who came into a seaside town's shop to get a bag of chips every day!
The store owner didn't really want to pay for all that but some kind Scotsman said he would pay the bird's tab and so the store owner kept the chips rack by the door where the bird could continue to help itself to a bag when it wanted one.
I know, not a black bird but I just wanted to share in case you missed it a couple of years ago.
I have it as a small video clip.
D

gull chips.GIF

[angora]

Thanks dana for the stories & peo for the book suggestion.