What a gift these goofy crow neighbors have been! I so hope all our well-wishes translate into successful fledging for these babies. Got a lot of folks ready to scoop them out of traffic if it comes down to that, but I'm hoping all that flapping means they'll be able to fly out in style instead!
They're nesting above a very busy road, hence the concern. Hence why I've been working from my front porch all day to keep an eye on them, just in case.
SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️⚧️
SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️⚧️
Spam wanting me to Bruce Banner this, as if we didn't all see what all that college did to him
I live in a very transitory neighborhood-- all renters, many students here for a semester. We've kept to ourselves
But I'm out watching crows enough folks have asked. A frequent jogger now says "fledged yet?" as he goes by. Students nextdoor downloaded Merlin. Delivery drivers want updates.
1/2
Look at these goobers
(these are the baby Fish Crows, all as big as their parents now that they are ~32 days old, working out those wing muscles and getting the last of their flight feathers unsheathed so they can leave the nest, presumably this week)
#birds
I feel like I need to have a sign ready, to put in the yard for when I'm suddenly back in the office.
Like this but "they all fledged successfully!"
SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️⚧️
Every time I make the mistake of logging into LinkedIn it's just a bunch of DMs from online universities saying I'd be a great candidate for their degree program
why would I want a 5th college degree
The landlord two houses down emailed everyone in the apartment to share my Facebook birding post updates (according to his tenants).
And that's not counting visitors, birders from all over the state.
It takes a village to raise some Fish Crows (or to anxiously await their big leap into the world)
