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

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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From: "Jim Nelson" <kingfishers2@verizon.net>
To: cobirds@googlegroups.com
Sent: Friday, February 17, 2017 5:23:12 PM
Subject: Re: RE: [cobirds] Interesting Crow behavior along the river today, Arapahoe County

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<kay@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

Kay@KayNiyo.com; www.KayNiyo.com

 

From: cobirds@googlegroups.com [mailto:cobirds@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Deborahann S-C
Sent: Friday, February 17, 2017 3:09 PM
To: buntingrobinjay@gmail.com
Cc: 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 <buntingrobinjay@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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