Re: [cobirds] Interesting Crow behavior along the river today, Arapahoe County

2017-02-17 Thread Ben S 
Corvids are certainly some of the most intelligent birds. But, I always see 
Chickadees as being quite intelligent.

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Re: [cobirds] Interesting Crow behavior along the river today, Arapahoe County

2017-02-17 Thread Cyndy Johnson 
Joking aside we do feed the crows in our neighborhood. Lately we have had up to 
30+ at a time. They do take the food we put out and 
place/soak it in the water quite often, and all year long. 
We had some mice in our garage, and my husband caught them with a live kill 
trap. He put them out. The crows will drop any other 
food that we put out for them and take off with the mice. 
Quite the characters to watch. 

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Sent: Friday, February 17, 2017 5:23:12 PM 
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Crows at our vacation home in Estes Park also soak prey items like small 
rodents or young birds before carrying them off, 
presumably to feed to nestlings. I've wondered if it is a way to ensure the 
young get lots of water along with their food. 
This can leave the bird bath pretty uninviting with residual entrails left 
behind. 


Jim Nelson 
Bethesda, 


On 02/17/17, Kay Niyo<k...@kayniyo.com> wrote: 




When I lived on Bear Mt at 8200’ a few years ago, my resident crows soaked lots 
of bread in my bird bath on my deck. They also brought potato chips and soaked 
them! There were very few homes on large acreages up there so I have no idea 
where they were getting all the potato chips! Someone must have been feeding 
them! When they had young in the nest, the soaking activity increased. They 
would soak the food and then fly to the nearby nest in a giant ponderosa pine. 
I had to clean out and refresh the water in the bird bath daily! Fun 
observations! 



Kay 



Kayleen A. Niyo, Ph.D. 

Niyo Scientific Communications 

5651 Garnet St. 

Golden, CO 80403 

303.679.6646 

k...@kayniyo.com ; www.KayNiyo.com 



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We were just in Mexico and noticed Great-Tailed Grackles doing the same thing. 





On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 2:53 PM, Brian Johnson < buntingrobin...@gmail.com > 
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Today when walking along my local patch along the Mary Carter Greenway (the 
part I patrol is between Bowles Ave and the Northern Wildlife Area) I watched a 
American Crow on the rocky beach take a piece of bread or a roll and drop it in 
the river. The bird started to drink and look around, watching to make sure 
anther bird did not take the bread likely. Than after a few moments the crow 
proceed to tear the bread apart and eat it. I don't know if the bread was hard 
as rock and stale and needed softening or if the bird just likes soaked bread, 
but it was rather interesting to watch this. Corvids are know for their 
intelligence so it was quite a treat to get to watch this in person. 





Brian Johnson 


Englewood Co 

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Re: RE: [cobirds] Interesting Crow behavior along the river today, Arapahoe County

2017-02-17 Thread Jim Nelson 
Crows at our vacation home in Estes Park also soak prey items like small rodents or young birds before carrying them off, presumably to feed to nestlings.  I've wondered if it is a way to ensure the young getlots of water along with their food.  This can leave the bird bath pretty uninviting with residual entrails left behind.Jim NelsonBethesda,    On 02/17/17, Kay Niyo<k...@kayniyo.com> wrote: When I lived on Bear Mt at 8200’ a few years ago, my resident crows soaked lots of bread in my bird bath on my deck.  They also brought potato chips and soaked them!  There were very few homes on large acreages up there so I have no idea where they were getting all the potato chips!  Someone must have been feeding them!  When they had young in the nest, the soaking activity increased.  They would soak the food and then fly to the nearby nest in a giant ponderosa pine.  I had to clean out and refresh the water in the bird bath daily!  Fun observations! Kay Kayleen A. Niyo, Ph.D.Niyo Scientific Communications5651 Garnet St.Golden, CO 80403303.679.6646k...@kayniyo.com; www.KayNiyo.com From: cobirds@googlegroups.com [mailto:cobirds@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Deborahann S-CSent: Friday, February 17, 2017 3:09 PMTo: buntingrobin...@gmail.comCc: Colorado Birds <cobirds@googlegroups.com>Subject: Re: [cobirds] Interesting Crow behavior along the river today, Arapahoe County We were just in Mexico and noticed Great-Tailed Grackles doing the same thing.  On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 2:53 PM, Brian Johnson <buntingrobin...@gmail.com> wrote:Today when walking along my local patch along the Mary Carter Greenway (the part I patrol is between Bowles Ave and the Northern Wildlife Area) I watched a American Crow on the rocky beach take a piece of bread or a roll and drop it in the river. The bird started to drink and look around, watching to make sure anther bird did not take the bread likely. Than after a few moments the crow proceed to tear the bread apart and eat it. I don't know if the bread was hard as rock and stale and needed softening or if the bird just likes soaked bread, but it was rather interesting to watch this. Corvids are know for their intelligence so it was quite a treat to get to watch this in person. Brian Johnson Englewood Co-- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group.To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com.To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/559d976b-11cf-40ac-8f2e-d345ce954652%40googlegroups.com.For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group.To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com.To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/CABc8NxDH326LZYi%2BRKSmLgHeJPuOUeJkpg_dG7rQ57CGqDUaWw%40mail.gmail.com.For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.-- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group.To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com.To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/0c1601d28975%248d9fba40%24a8df2ec0%24%40kayniyo.com.For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.



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Re: [cobirds] Interesting Crow behavior along the river today, Arapahoe County

2017-02-17 Thread Brian Johnson 

That's interesting that the crows where doing this with bread and potato 
chips. So maybe they like to soak them also. I would love to see some crows 
soaking it in beer and salsa also, that would be a sight! Haha.
Brian Johnson
Englewood CO

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Re: [cobirds] Interesting Crow behavior along the river today, Arapahoe County

2017-02-17 Thread Cyndy Johnson 
We have learned that if you are going to put out chips and bread you should 
also put out beer and salsa, it is much easier to down. 

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Subject: [cobirds] Interesting Crow behavior along the river today, Arapahoe 
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Today when walking along my local patch along the Mary Carter Greenway (the 
part I patrol is between Bowles Ave and the Northern Wildlife Area) I watched a 
American Crow on the rocky beach take a piece of bread or a roll and drop it in 
the river. The bird started to drink and look around, watching to make sure 
anther bird did not take the bread likely. Than after a few moments the crow 
proceed to tear the bread apart and eat it. I don't know if the bread was hard 
as rock and stale and needed softening or if the bird just likes soaked bread, 
but it was rather interesting to watch this. Corvids are know for their 
intelligence so it was quite a treat to get to watch this in person. 


Brian Johnson 
Englewood Co 

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RE: [cobirds] Interesting Crow behavior along the river today, Arapahoe County

2017-02-17 Thread Kay Niyo 
When I lived on Bear Mt at 8200’ a few years ago, my resident crows soaked lots 
of bread in my bird bath on my deck.  They also brought potato chips and soaked 
them!  There were very few homes on large acreages up there so I have no idea 
where they were getting all the potato chips!  Someone must have been feeding 
them!  When they had young in the nest, the soaking activity increased.  They 
would soak the food and then fly to the nearby nest in a giant ponderosa pine.  
I had to clean out and refresh the water in the bird bath daily!  Fun 
observations!

 

Kay

 

Kayleen A. Niyo, Ph.D.

Niyo Scientific Communications

5651 Garnet St.

Golden, CO 80403

303.679.6646

k...@kayniyo.com; www.KayNiyo.com

 

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We were just in Mexico and noticed Great-Tailed Grackles doing the same thing. 

 

On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 2:53 PM, Brian Johnson <buntingrobin...@gmail.com 
<mailto:buntingrobin...@gmail.com> > wrote:

Today when walking along my local patch along the Mary Carter Greenway (the 
part I patrol is between Bowles Ave and the Northern Wildlife Area) I watched a 
American Crow on the rocky beach take a piece of bread or a roll and drop it in 
the river. The bird started to drink and look around, watching to make sure 
anther bird did not take the bread likely. Than after a few moments the crow 
proceed to tear the bread apart and eat it. I don't know if the bread was hard 
as rock and stale and needed softening or if the bird just likes soaked bread, 
but it was rather interesting to watch this. Corvids are know for their 
intelligence so it was quite a treat to get to watch this in person.

 

Brian Johnson 

Englewood Co

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Re: [cobirds] Interesting Crow behavior along the river today, Arapahoe County

2017-02-17 Thread Deborahann S-C 
We were just in Mexico and noticed Great-Tailed Grackles doing the same
thing.

On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 2:53 PM, Brian Johnson 
wrote:

> Today when walking along my local patch along the Mary Carter Greenway
> (the part I patrol is between Bowles Ave and the Northern Wildlife Area) I
> watched a American Crow on the rocky beach take a piece of bread or a roll
> and drop it in the river. The bird started to drink and look around,
> watching to make sure anther bird did not take the bread likely. Than after
> a few moments the crow proceed to tear the bread apart and eat it. I don't
> know if the bread was hard as rock and stale and needed softening or if the
> bird just likes soaked bread, but it was rather interesting to watch this.
> Corvids are know for their intelligence so it was quite a treat to get to
> watch this in person.
>
> Brian Johnson
> Englewood Co
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