Wednesday, January 1, 2014

Crow-Boarding


Saw this on You Tube and thought it was very amusing.  It's a crow with a cap from a mayonnaise jar sledding down a roof top.  We all know crows are very smart but this one really has a good time for itself.  I was thinking back to when I was a kid and did lots of sledding in the winter.  The worst part was always dragging the sled or saucer back up the hill.  Wish I would have had wings, sledding would have gone a lot easier and been a little less tiring. 


 
                    

Until next time

9 comments:

  1. Love crows! Very cute video. They are so smart and very family-oriented. I was driving through my neighbourhood a while back and came across a dead crow on the side lawn of a house, with its mate standing over the body, cawing. I pulled over to check to make sure the the crow was indeed dead (it was) and not just injured. Up in the tree above the two was a small group of other crows. It was like they were showing respect for the fallen buddy. It was very touching.

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  2. That is brilliant, thanks for sharing. Amazing watching it work out the best place to sled. Yup, wings are definitely a bonus. We get a quite a number of crows, jackdaws and magpies here; great view of them from the back window, and their cawing is what usually wakes me nowadays, which I quite enjoy.

    Read a really good book about corvids a while ago (don't think I got around to reviewing it) called 'Corvus: A Life With Birds' by Esther Woolfson, about the various corvids and sundry birds she ended up rescuing up in Scotland.

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  3. Smart and knows how to have fun... love it! :D

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  4. Fascinating. I've been thinking of writing a post about the "crow couple" that hang out with my herd. Whenever I lead a horse out of the barn, the crows make clip-clop sounds in time with the horse's feet striking the ground. I have started talking to them, and so now every time they see me, they make a ruckus to see what I'm going to say.

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  5. Oh my gosh, that was soooo cool! I just love it!! I've always heard that they were very smart, but obviously they have a sense of humor and a love of play too. I always think that we humans are quite arrogant to believe that we're the only beings to be so much more than what's seen on the surface.

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  6. Fascinating and amusing. Thank you so much for sharing this. Happy New Year and warm greetings from Montreal, Canada.

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