The last of the 3 young crows from last yeer, the timid one, has finally been chased away by its parents. They have rebuilt their nest and probably have new baby crows to feed by now.
Thy are voracious and they don't like competition for the food F and Mr B put out. Gulls (in various sizes) are their greatest competition.
Gulls cheat.
Crows sit on surrounding rooftops surveying our back yard and usually respond to the sound of F rattling cat biscuits inside a plastic cup. The gulls are attracted to the sight of crows on the ground. Even if the gulls are keeping sentry duty on the rooftops too, they never move until after the crows have started eating.
Understandably the crows have developed some pathological hatred of the lurking gulls; they divebomb them as they sit on the roof ridges making that "ark, ark, ark, ark...call to all raiders" noise. The gulls in flight are curving, flowing, circling; the crows are straight lines, sharp angles, abrupt, stabbing. They can appear to do a right angle at speed; a sudden attacking direction change out of nowhere.
Gulls have numbers, the crows are only two. However gulls are only lazily persistent, the crows are doggedly determined. The gulls are just passing through, the crows live here. HERE. RIGHT HERE (tree in front of the house). The gulls are only around at certain times of the day, the crows are here all daylight hours. Crows will eat anything, the gulls are picky. As successful scavengers go, my money is on the crows.
And another thing.......I've noticed that when they are chasing gulls on foot (yes, it happens) the crows do 'fat tail' with the feathers on the back of their heads. That gull is twice his size but the crow doesn't care, just fluffs himself up and goes for it.
Thy are voracious and they don't like competition for the food F and Mr B put out. Gulls (in various sizes) are their greatest competition.
Gulls cheat.
Crows sit on surrounding rooftops surveying our back yard and usually respond to the sound of F rattling cat biscuits inside a plastic cup. The gulls are attracted to the sight of crows on the ground. Even if the gulls are keeping sentry duty on the rooftops too, they never move until after the crows have started eating.
Understandably the crows have developed some pathological hatred of the lurking gulls; they divebomb them as they sit on the roof ridges making that "ark, ark, ark, ark...call to all raiders" noise. The gulls in flight are curving, flowing, circling; the crows are straight lines, sharp angles, abrupt, stabbing. They can appear to do a right angle at speed; a sudden attacking direction change out of nowhere.
Gulls have numbers, the crows are only two. However gulls are only lazily persistent, the crows are doggedly determined. The gulls are just passing through, the crows live here. HERE. RIGHT HERE (tree in front of the house). The gulls are only around at certain times of the day, the crows are here all daylight hours. Crows will eat anything, the gulls are picky. As successful scavengers go, my money is on the crows.
And another thing.......I've noticed that when they are chasing gulls on foot (yes, it happens) the crows do 'fat tail' with the feathers on the back of their heads. That gull is twice his size but the crow doesn't care, just fluffs himself up and goes for it.
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| Crows like fish'n'chips |
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