What animals did you see today?

[Grateful]

A murder of crows, an unkindness of ravens, a charm/mischief/tribulation of magpies, a clattering of jackdaws?

Ah! Well.. though they were flying around more erratically than I usually see these ones, I believe a clattering most likely with a disturbance of several portions of a murder. It’s a fair question.

 

[Friday]

Ah! Well.. though they were flying around more erratically than I usually see these ones, I believe a clattering most likely with a disturbance of several portions of a murder. It’s a fair question.

Cha. There are apx 10,000 crows in the local (to me) murder… they black out the sky, twice a day, with hundreds and hundreds of them, still flying to reach the larger, and larger, groups.

Ravens are more solitary, and more seen in the mountains. Here, anyway.

The corvidae family is utterly delightful, is it not?

The local murder of 10k crows also includes a handful of seagulls, a few dozen songbirds, a double handful of cats, and the odd coyote, and a few people. All adopted, part of the whole. All sharing food & sactuary. Several crows curled up with my (stray) cat, whilst he was sick. Abandoning safe harbor, to guard him as he slept. On my deck. Curled in amongst him. Above. A below. Threatening violence to any who approached. He was theirs. Full stop. I’ve become something of a country cousin, mistrusted but allowed, since then. As I also took care of TheCat, and The Crows In Attendance.

 

[Grateful]

Cha. There are apx 10,000 crows in the local (to me) murder… they black out the sky, twice a day, with hundreds and hundreds of them, still flying to reach the larger, and larger, groups.

Ravens are more solitary, and more seen in the mountains. Here, anyway.

Ravens very rare here but on higher ground I experienced them years back. Beautiful. Never seen that many but it reminds me of starlings of the 80’s

The corvidae family is utterly delightful, is it not?

Very much that

Several crows curled up with my (stray) cat, whilst he was sick. Abandoning safe harbor, to guard him as he slept. On my deck. Curled in amongst him. Above. A below. Threatening violence to any who approached. He was theirs. Full stop. I’ve become something of a country cousin, mistrusted but allowed, since then.

He must have served them great purpose. What a privilege to witness. Did they help him recover? Motives not always understood but intelligence is astoundingly clear. We have a several rooks. I feel comforted to see them as sometimes they seem missing. Larger then the others with exception of the Ravens. Rooks seem shy.

 

[Dark.Green.Feathers]

Some species of aquatic detritus worm… cabbage white butterfly.

 

[Dark.Green.Feathers]

Ravens very rare here but on higher ground I experienced them years back. Beautiful. Never seen that many but it reminds me of starlings of the 80’s

Very much that


He must have served them great purpose. What a privilege to witness. Did they help him recover? Motives not always understood but intelligence is astoundingly clear. We have a several rooks. I feel comforted to see them as sometimes they seem missing. Larger then the others with exception of the Ravens. Rooks seem shy.

I like the rooks, I mainly get jackdaws, crows and eurasian magpies, here. In other parts of town there are rooks, though. They seem to like more rural areas, like ravens.


Have you seen photos of the other kinds of corvids across the world? Choughs are the closest to me, but there are a lot of colorful corvids, like the Cissa genus of green magpies, and a few different blue magpie/jay species. There’s also the Piapiac in Africa, that has bright pink or purple eyes.
Treepies are a cool bunch, too. The racket-tailed treepie has cyan eyes. Very diverse family of birds.

 

[Lost in the Woods]

Turkey vultures soaring at eye level while I have my morning coffee. Also there is a humming bird migration coming up from Mexico and we are on the edge of it so lots of humming birds visiting my flowers.

 

[Lost in the Woods]

Turkey vultures soaring at eye level while I have my morning coffee. Also there is a humming bird migration coming up from Mexico and we are on the edge of it so lots of humming birds visiting my flowers.

 

[Lost in the Woods]

I believe I saw a coati while riding my dirt bike in the desert today.

 

[Grateful]

I like the rooks, I mainly get jackdaws, crows and eurasian magpies, here. In other parts of town there are rooks, though. They seem to like more rural areas, like ravens.


Have you seen photos of the other kinds of corvids across the world? Choughs are the closest to me, but there are a lot of colorful corvids, like the Cissa genus of green magpies, and a few different blue magpie/jay species. There’s also the Piapiac in Africa, that has bright pink or purple eyes.
Treepies are a cool bunch, too. The racket-tailed treepie has cyan eyes. Very diverse family of birds.

Although there are rookeries nearby there are not more than a couple of individuals who visit the patches of grass here. They have an efficient kind of wiseness about them I find interesting and cautiously warming.
We have a pair of Jays nest in a nearby tree and occasionally visit the garden for nuts. I tend to hear them in the year before I ever see them. They have beutiful plumage. And the magpies alarm call, often joined by the chirpsqueek and tail flicking of a particular squirrel often warn of cats before they attempt to take other birds - useful.
I knew there were more corvids worldwide but not to this extent. I have see pictures of other Jays before when I was researching our local pair and have seen pictures cyan eyes you mention. I’ve not heard of a Chough - will look this up along with some of the others.

At certain times of the year we have a couple of large gulls. Their dance when feeding can last for hours if they aren’t interrupted and can be entertaining.

 

[Carrie White]

My two cats
Squirrels and birds in the garden
Dogs outside

A raccoon briefly visited the garden a few days ago, but disappeared again immediately.

 

[Dark.Green.Feathers]

Squirrel, I rarely see these around here. And an insect that I thought was a moth, but realised definitely wasn’t after I tried to pick it up.

 

[Grateful]

Several charms of goldfinch, some pigeons, multiple squirrels including resident old timer here, 2 Rooks, 4 types of snail, worms, woodlice, 3 cats, multiple dogs (and some badger poo)