Over the years, many people have told me that they do not see this predation by Crows at their own favorite toad ponds, which leads me to imagine that the technique for extracting the goods without the poisonous bufotoxin is a kind of traditional knowledge passed down the generations in certain Crow families.
With a break in the rain, I walked the dike and found three eviscerated toads, so the tradition persists at my pond. -Geo > On Apr 17, 2023, at 9:30 AM, Catharine O'Neill <coneill...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Those toads are indeed early and mine have not yet come to my Fall Creek > pond. Though it is rather cool, perhaps the rain will bring them tonight. I’m > glad the Ithaca crows have not discovered them. > Catharine O’Neill > > Sent from my iPhone -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
