by There are always birds waiting for me each morning. Sometimes I think I’ll stop feeding the them and save myself a little money. But what …
… would I saw to this guy? That’s a vulture, right? Seriously, what is this? A very big starling?
Stacy Horn
I've written six non-fiction books, the most recent is Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York.
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Caw Caw. Its a crow (unless its a raven).
He was watching me.
Yup. The word has gotten out that you feed the birds.
Crows do watch people. They are smart. I “rescued” one once and held it in my hands and it was pretty big! I could feel its breastbone under my fingers and it scolded me the whole time I was hanging onto it. But it was still smaller than a supermarket chicken – it probably only weighed a pound or so. It was just so much bigger than a chickadee, say.
Here’s a good site for some bird calls:
http://www.birdjam.com/learn.php
Not the crow – it’s too obvious, I guess.
Julia, that was a great site. Finney went nuts at each one I listened to.