[Magdalen] The Crows

[Jay Weigel]

According to what I have read, Grace, you just feed them regularly every
day. Maybe at a designated spot away from other birds, though.


On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 3:16 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I love this! Saw it yesterday and have been trying to figure out how to
> work out a deal like this with the two or three enormous crows who show up
> here every morning!
>
> On February 27, 2015, at 2:21 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> By now many of you will have seen this, but I thought I would bring it to
> the pub. You will never look at crows the same way again.
>
> http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-31604026
>
> When we were on Sanibel last month, every morning about 10 am a flock of
> fish crows would arrive at our condo complex. They were fairly noisy on
> arrival and then would settle down to a round of chit-chat. Along about 3
> in the afternoon, one of them (I have no idea if it was the same one every
> day) would suddenly give a long and impassioned speech about something that
> lasted about 20 minutes. They would depart perhaps a half hour later for
> parts unknown. We speculated what that speech was about, whether a tide
> report, weather report, sermon, political speech..... In any case, I find
> crows particularly interesting birds, despite their noisy behavior. I was
> aware that they were smart, but they above article certainly confirms it.
>