11/13/2013

It's mid November and I am still enchanted by crows, and feeding them has become rather maddening. It started snowing enough for it to stick to the ground about 3 days ago. I have continued to feed the crows, but with bluejays eager to eat scraps as well, so it's difficult. Now with even more birds interferring it has been an uphill ( Read more... )

10/20/2013 
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Spring is on the way and I am back to add some entries about the crows. Because of the absence of the crows, last fall 2012 I stopped adding entries. They all seemed to dissapear. I'm not sure why, perhaps it was the new puppy and kitten I adopted. Foxy would get in the window and bark her head off, and the kitten? Well perhaps it was just her ( Read more... )

I don't know where my crow family went, as I seldom saw them around my yard through the rest of the summer. That was a bit discouraging so I decided no more wasting my time purchasing chicken feed for them. I continued to I throw out the usual leftovers, it appeared they had no interest. Most of it was being eaten by wildlife, and blujays. Because ( Read more... )

August 4, 2012

It's been awhile since I documented anything, reason being is their has been less activity. Before the young crows were brought to my backyard, their schedule has been a bit irratic. Going back to earlier dates, it seemed like the crows and I had a feeding schedule (some what of an understanding?) Between 9:00am to 10:00am I would ( Read more... )

It's interesting watching the body language of the baby crows. In spite of the fact that they pick scraps up off the ground, they still hound the heck out of their caretakers. 'considering the un mated adult siblings also help with the care and feeding of the fledglings, along with the parents, I call them the caretakers' I wonder if the mother ( Read more... )

It has been awhile since I documented anything. The summer is about halfway over, and for this 72 year old crow, their are not enough hours in a day, to do all the things I need to do. Considering my diminishing health, daily chores and projects, the days fly by. One would think a solitary person such as myself living in a secluded area might get ( Read more... )

June 7, 2012

Yesterday I moved the rodent trap to the gararge. As I once owned a cat, their is a cat door on the garage. So I sett the rodent trap up and made a line of peanuts from the outside cat door, to the trap. The squirrel took the bait and went for a 5 mile ride to the woods. I think that makes 13 squirrels? This morning I was visited by ( Read more... )

6/4/2012
The negative was last week when I thought I had caught the last squirrel, but the next day theirs another squirrel foraging about the yard and intimidating my crows. Leaving the trap baited and set turned out to be another negative, because this squirrel was foiling the trap and getting the bait, or it refused to go in the trap? One day I ( Read more... )

5/29/2012

This week I dropped off 10 squirrels. As far as I can see I still have 1 young squirrel left. Or not? as I may be seeing only 1 squirrel at a time? Unfortunately I am not catching this squirrel. It could of found a way to get the bait without springing the trap. Or their is something wrong with the trap?

The opinion of a friend was I would ( Read more... )