Crows do walk wonderfully pompously and this one has quite a stylish wide tie/cravat/scarf (there are individual differences between individual hooded crows in that area).
Marcus Ranum @ 2
Maybe the gray of hooded crow is an adaptation to environments with a lot of snag. Maybe not.
I felt that I wasn’t able to play with the contrast settings very much in these photos.
lumipunasays
What camouflage? I guess familiarity makes it easier to see a particular animal against particular background.
Charly@#5: Crows are not very common here and whenever I see them (the black ones) it is from afar, so I had not have an opportunity to watch them walk.
American crows are very officious.
I had a plan for a while of making a gigantic crow-feeder on a post in my back yard (I cancelled it because the crows don’t need feeding and I don’t need to clean up the mess) in the form of a castle -- the chateau de crow -- I wanted to put the food bins on battlements behind crenellated walls at the right height so that they’d appear to be strutting back and forth guarding the walls. Also, due to problems of scale it would have had to be pretty huge and I’d have had to do some serious work to install the mounting-post and I’d probably have to climb a ladder in the winter, at night, uphill both ways, and the damn crows wouldn’t appreciate the humor of it at all.
Raucous Indignationsays
Imma get those chromed side pipes installed! Imma gonna be the coolest corvidae at Corvids and Coffee!!
There was a similar bench on the other side and there was another crow there who was pecking for something between the boards of the seat of the bench. This one had to check so as not to miss anything. One of them chased the other away after a while, IIRC,
Getting me some carbon fiber accents for my claws and beak. Who’s cooler than me!?
I love the camouflage! In the first picture I had to struggle to see a bird. It kept turning into two weird shapes.
The carrion crow in the roundel is the reason I wanted to make this set.
Raucous Indignation @ 1
Crows do walk wonderfully pompously and this one has quite a stylish wide tie/cravat/scarf (there are individual differences between individual hooded crows in that area).
Marcus Ranum @ 2
Maybe the gray of hooded crow is an adaptation to environments with a lot of snag. Maybe not.
I felt that I wasn’t able to play with the contrast settings very much in these photos.
What camouflage? I guess familiarity makes it easier to see a particular animal against particular background.
If a crow crosses a street and nobody sees it, did it walk pompously?
Crows are not very common here and whenever I see them (the black ones) it is from afar, so I had not have an opportunity to watch them walk.
Charly@#5:
Crows are not very common here and whenever I see them (the black ones) it is from afar, so I had not have an opportunity to watch them walk.
American crows are very officious.
I had a plan for a while of making a gigantic crow-feeder on a post in my back yard (I cancelled it because the crows don’t need feeding and I don’t need to clean up the mess) in the form of a castle -- the chateau de crow -- I wanted to put the food bins on battlements behind crenellated walls at the right height so that they’d appear to be strutting back and forth guarding the walls. Also, due to problems of scale it would have had to be pretty huge and I’d have had to do some serious work to install the mounting-post and I’d probably have to climb a ladder in the winter, at night, uphill both ways, and the damn crows wouldn’t appreciate the humor of it at all.
Imma get those chromed side pipes installed! Imma gonna be the coolest corvidae at Corvids and Coffee!!
Why did the crow cross the road?
Giliell @ 8
There was a similar bench on the other side and there was another crow there who was pecking for something between the boards of the seat of the bench. This one had to check so as not to miss anything. One of them chased the other away after a while, IIRC,