It’s not that easy to take crow photos, in spite of crows being virtually everywhere. For some reason they’re very wary of humans. I find that somewhat odd, simply because, on average, contemporary humankind poses no direct threat to birdkind. Check out the pigeons, sparrows and starlings mooching outside Starbucks. Peaceful coexistence!
No, nowadays we humans prefer to mess around with birds by tearing down their nesting sites in order to build condos and parking lots.
Anyway, I’d noticed crows congregating on this fence before, so I had the camera on the passenger seat ready to take this photo out the car window. As you can see, they're a little dubious of that zoom lens . . .
Photo: Crows on Fence—Marin County, 2009
2 comments:
Yes, out this way, my neighbor likes to put up his bird house, have the birds move in and then proceed to spray pesticide on the tree to prevent pests. That's intelligence for ya!
Anyway, love the photo!
I don't mind pests, except for aphids. Hate 'em.
As for crows, the other day I helped some crows open a plastic fast food container.
Anything to further the cause of crow/human detente!
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