cavernio (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} cavernio) wrote,@ 2006-11-28 11:15:00 |
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Crows
Well, I've not updated in quite awhile (hmm, must be some sorta new phenomenon in the blogging world), and I feel kinda bad about it. Sorry.
Anyways.
I like crows. I dunno when I started to like them, but I do. They're very intelligent birds, like parrots and those sorts of ones. I don't really like parrots as much though, they don't fly around in murders, so they just can't be as impressive. They don't fly away or are scared of people. They'll look back at you straight in the eye, seemingly sizing you up. I swear they communicate with each other too. Most people dislike the caw crows make, and I must say, I don't particularly like it, but its become a sound I expect to hear many mornings. They do this echo thing, (actually, I've noticed other birds do that too. Like those birds which always sing a major 3rd descending. One of them whistles, another answers usually in a different key) where one caws twice, 3 or 4 times (I may or may not have heard 5), and then another one will answer with the same number of caws. Then, another one will begin, and do their own number of caws. And you can have multiples of these going on at once, although its harder to distinguish which call is mimicking what. Its like they've learned binary or something.
Last week, I noticed a crow on campus that has a broken wing. I thought it'd be dead for sure by now, seeing as it only hops around, but I saw it again today. It was picking at something in the grass, but I didn't see anything that could've been food :-( Its just North of Kierstead hall, down the hill, beside the northmost set of stairs. I wonder if its wrong to call the SPCA or something. I feel really badly for it. It'll starve to death slowly, and as Jordan said, it'll probaby turn into food for the other crows, and probably before its dead too. :-( I couldn't help but stop and look at it as it hopped away, turning its head to return my gaze.
Well, I've not updated in quite awhile (hmm, must be some sorta new phenomenon in the blogging world), and I feel kinda bad about it. Sorry.
Anyways.
I like crows. I dunno when I started to like them, but I do. They're very intelligent birds, like parrots and those sorts of ones. I don't really like parrots as much though, they don't fly around in murders, so they just can't be as impressive. They don't fly away or are scared of people. They'll look back at you straight in the eye, seemingly sizing you up. I swear they communicate with each other too. Most people dislike the caw crows make, and I must say, I don't particularly like it, but its become a sound I expect to hear many mornings. They do this echo thing, (actually, I've noticed other birds do that too. Like those birds which always sing a major 3rd descending. One of them whistles, another answers usually in a different key) where one caws twice, 3 or 4 times (I may or may not have heard 5), and then another one will answer with the same number of caws. Then, another one will begin, and do their own number of caws. And you can have multiples of these going on at once, although its harder to distinguish which call is mimicking what. Its like they've learned binary or something.
Last week, I noticed a crow on campus that has a broken wing. I thought it'd be dead for sure by now, seeing as it only hops around, but I saw it again today. It was picking at something in the grass, but I didn't see anything that could've been food :-( Its just North of Kierstead hall, down the hill, beside the northmost set of stairs. I wonder if its wrong to call the SPCA or something. I feel really badly for it. It'll starve to death slowly, and as Jordan said, it'll probaby turn into food for the other crows, and probably before its dead too. :-( I couldn't help but stop and look at it as it hopped away, turning its head to return my gaze.
