A Murder of Crows~Caturday Art

 UPDATE FROM YESTERDAY POST.  I have not yet in my life seen a raven. Our resident Bird-Man, David G, of Travels with Birds said in comment, there are no crows in Florida. He said it was most likely an American Crow. I verified he is right, no crows here and found this info to share. Seems I will never see one since we don't travel. Thank you David.

from the charts, I think mine was a Really Big American Crow...

 https://billjonesillustration.com/  I found the above cartoon by Bill Jones very funny and can relate to it because I don't like crowds and also a murder of crows does sound LOUD and I can see why the word murder was used.

I made this in procreated, by painting 3 crows on a power line. I dabbed paint to make the bodies, and then 8 duplicates, hooked them together, and adjusted them to different sizes and a little different shapes with the warp tool.

All this work to borrow a joke I saw on the joke page.

The Crow and the MadMagpie

 

The sun was coming up when I walked out of Wal-Mart pushing my basket of groceries. The sky was full of crows, they were on the cars, parking lot, all the light fixtures and the fence that hold the baskets.

I love crows, no photo, it was too dark, and we were talking. I drew him for you out of my memory shows you how the biggest crow I have ever seen, was watching me as I talked to him in baby talk. (yes, I talk to crows)

He landed about 10 feet from me, and I stopped to see what he had in his mouth. He was fascinated by my talking to him, and he stared down at me much like Beau looks when I tell him a story. 

photos taken while I was telling him a story. he will sit as long as I talk, we get to laughing so hard I can hardly talk.

I asked Crow what he had in his beak, and he dropped it; I told him it looked just like the pigs' ears that dogs like to eat. I told him he is the biggest crow I have ever seen.

I turned to walk towards my car and a man about my age was standing watching me, He laughed and said I think that bird likes you! I laughed and said, I was asking him what he had in his beak. He said what was it? I answered I don't know; it looked like a Taco, but he did not tell me.

 do you talk to critters? birds? lizards? I do.

I always apologize to the lizards when I remove the poop bag AKA Lizard Buffett. The lizards listen to me just like Beau and the Crow.

the map above, the circle is Egmont Key and Islande that is 33 miles by car and 2 miles if I could fly like a bird. Egmont is a bird preserve and every morning when I am walking Beau, from the direct of the island, thousands of crows leave that island and fly to the east over our heads. They and the one I talked to, are fish crows. I came home to look up their name and dove down the internet HOLE for about an hour. 

I had no idea Crows are Corvids; I love that name. or that our local birds are Fish Crow and live on Egmont Key. Now I know why Beau and I see thousands of them in the air every day at daybreak and we see the sky filled from our backyard every evening at about 5;30 which is sundown

The most interesting Fact I found, is this...

In the family of Corvids is a MAGPIE. 

info found HERE

Crows, Magpies, and Ravens Talk! You may be surprised to learn crows, magpies, and ravens can talk. These birds can mimic other birds and human speech so accurately that people believe they are hearing a person.

Are you picking up what I am putting down? Crows and Magpies TALK! 

I may change my name to Mad Magpie. I talk so much that Birder, David G, commented that he hopes I never sit by him on a plane. 😉😉

I learned a lot, if you care at all the info in in the link or just type in Crows vs Magpies or Corvids