tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15897842.post177503294943137968..comments2024-03-28T08:23:22.133-04:00Comments on Beyond the Fields We Know: Raucous Beginningskerrdelunehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09779897207670867347noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15897842.post-90409545330316445232007-03-01T06:34:00.000-05:002007-03-01T06:34:00.000-05:00Crows are some of the first visitors here each mor...Crows are some of the first visitors here each morning. Their voices certainally are the first to be heard :) They seldom come to the feeders - simply come in as if to wake the community and the house, check out the clearing and the woods - then be on their way. You have caught their character in this post - thanks for the smiles todayEndmenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13711896605197134394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15897842.post-23021748393482826572007-03-01T05:55:00.000-05:002007-03-01T05:55:00.000-05:00I don't know whether this is a scientific fact or ...I don't know whether this is a scientific fact or just my imagination, but it seems to me that crows have different accents in different parts of the country. When I go to a different State and hear a crow it seems to be a distinctive "caw" from what I am use to. Maybe it's just the "trickster" aspect of crows greeting an outsider.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15897842.post-25456904773878421972007-03-01T02:49:00.000-05:002007-03-01T02:49:00.000-05:00I love crows too, one of the most marvellous sight...I love crows too, one of the most marvellous sights and sounds I know is that of huge flocks of crows either going to roost on a late winter afternoon or streaming out of their roost at first light on a winter morning. Marvellous birds. Don't know whether you have the term 'a crow's parliament'? That typifies them to me - an ancient, wise race of birds. Pity our UK parliament isn't more like them!Rowanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13679130612798888266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15897842.post-68285583912551628432007-02-28T22:53:00.000-05:002007-02-28T22:53:00.000-05:00I like "Rowdy of Crows" very much. Frolic and Cap...I like "Rowdy of Crows" very much. Frolic and Caper seem too light for me, maybe a little too high pitched or giddy for crows? To me they are heavyweight comics.<BR/>I recall once watching a family cross a well manicured lawn at our office complex. It was July, and they were evenly spaced, side-by-side, in a line, like army privates walking along to pick up cigarette butts. What they were actually doing was an organized herding of the large grasshoppers all to one end of the lawn where concentrated carnage took place. They say the Corvids have the largest brains of any birds. One crow, in a lengthy study, was observed every fourteen days, like clockwork, to fly miles to join her old family flock, where she spent the day with her mother.<BR/>Since growing up with them, calling to each other up the river across the road from our house, audible but not visible in the morning fog, I have loved them. I talk to them when I see them fly over.<BR/>MoominpapaSteve Emeryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08628329561652344403noreply@blogger.com