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birdfeedingI met some crows today.
More accurately, I was heading to take a walk on the Ten Mile River Greenway, which is a bike/walking trail about 6 miles from my house, and as I was pulling onto a side street, I noticed a bunch of them over in the plaza nearby.
So I stopped by, and it turned out there were like, 30 of them. Mix of Fish Crows and American Crows. (Fish Crows are smaller, and sound more nasal.)
Because I look for both blue jays and crows, I keep a bag of peanuts in my car, so I was supplied tobribe make friends with them. (In theory, at least, non-mated crows roost communally, and sometimes travel a bunch (up to 60 kilometers), so it's not inconceivable I could meet some of these folks again.)
As I was parking for the actual walk, I met several killdeer, which I have never seen in the area before. It's a shorebird, and I don't think of them as being an inland bunch, but they do hang out on lawns and other such areas. This was on the lawn of a manufacturing business, and Providence, which is where I technically was, is sort of on the ocean. Still -- felt weird!
On my walk, I saw my first Osprey of spring (they migrate down to Mexico in the winter), a few ducks and Mute Swans, and the requisite Red-Winged Blackbirds and Grackles.
More accurately, I was heading to take a walk on the Ten Mile River Greenway, which is a bike/walking trail about 6 miles from my house, and as I was pulling onto a side street, I noticed a bunch of them over in the plaza nearby.
So I stopped by, and it turned out there were like, 30 of them. Mix of Fish Crows and American Crows. (Fish Crows are smaller, and sound more nasal.)
Because I look for both blue jays and crows, I keep a bag of peanuts in my car, so I was supplied to
As I was parking for the actual walk, I met several killdeer, which I have never seen in the area before. It's a shorebird, and I don't think of them as being an inland bunch, but they do hang out on lawns and other such areas. This was on the lawn of a manufacturing business, and Providence, which is where I technically was, is sort of on the ocean. Still -- felt weird!
On my walk, I saw my first Osprey of spring (they migrate down to Mexico in the winter), a few ducks and Mute Swans, and the requisite Red-Winged Blackbirds and Grackles.
Thoughts
Date: 2023-03-23 09:42 am (UTC)Well if you do, they'll probably remember the Peanut Human.
>>It's a shorebird, and I don't think of them as being an inland bunch, but they do hang out on lawns and other such areas. <<
We have them here. It's reclaimed (if often disputed) prairie marsh now used as farmland, and the only water nearby is usually the drainage ditches. But killdeer everywhere. They found some other way to get by.