Everybody knows crows are smart, but I was still impressed with something I saw
late this afternoon. The crows here at Thornton Creek, Lincoln Co. are not tame
like so many city crows, and tend to keep their distance from humans. But this
afternoon I took some old scraps of fat out of my freezer and dumped them out
in a field a couple of hundred yards from my house. I hadn't noticed that there
were some crows perched in some trees about three hundred yards distant along
the creek below. But they noticed me. Within thirty seconds of when the scraps
hit the ground two crows were already on them, even though I hadn't gone more
than fifty feet. Immediately all the rest of the crows, about fifty in all,
came streaming in. There were about five pounds of scraps, and I don't think
they lasted more than five or six minutes. I had never before seen crows at
this location act with so little fear. It was unusual.
Darrel
