While listening to an NPR science story about crows this morning, I remembered a crow moment I witnessed several years ago. One summer a friend and I would meet at Willamette U. a few times a week to walk the campus. I arrived early one morning and parked where I could watch a young soccer team practice on the field next to the main parking lot.
A couple of crows were hopping around the bleachers and I assumed they were looking for treasures dropped from past spectators. Then one of the crows began to focus on a duffel bag belonging to a soccer player. It hopped all around the bag, thoroughly checking it out from every angle. Finally the crow hopped on top of the bag, carefully pulled open the zipper, removed a foil wrapped package, found a loose edge, unwrapped the package, pulled out a sandwich half and flew away. Minutes later one of the soccer players walked over to the bag with an incredulous look on his face.
I bet he didn't suspect the thief had been a crow.
You didn't try to stop the crow?
ReplyDeleteI think I was frozen in disbelief. I thought about walking over to tell the boy about who/what took his sandwich, but by the time I had finished my decision to get out of the car he was back on the practice field.
ReplyDeleteI listened to that story too on NPR this a.m. and found it fascinating. I thought crows just squaked at everybody who seemed a threat.
ReplyDeleteThe part about the crows turning their heads upside down to look at that caveman mask? I couldn't decide if I thought it was funny or if it gave me the creeps.
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