Thunder Down Under: Delinquent Crows

By Vic Midyett

Over the last couple of months, two crows have made me laugh at their behaviours. Their actions have caused me to assume they are young, although they look fully grown.
    In the mornings I sit outside with my coffee and most often they perch close to each other on the nearby power pole and wires. Much of the time they just seem to stare at each other making low crow sounds.
    But many times, one of them will peck at the other one’s foot that is closer to him. The other one will jump and move a bit farther away. The offender will slowly sachet himself sideways on the wire, while looking the opposite direction, to do it again. This goes on and on until one of them gets bored or annoyed and flies away, immediately followed by the other.

Yesterday, a neighbour across the road asked me if I had found any of my mail on the ground. I had not. He went on to say that several people in the street had found their mail scattered, and he observed that it was happening with smaller mail boxes, and conjectured that maybe the mail person wasn’t able to push all of their mail into the slots of these particular mailboxes.
    But he said that at that point he really thought it was kids who were doing it…until he made a point of watching every day as the mail delivery was made. And then he noticed these two “delinquent crows” were going from one box to the next pulling mail out and tossing the pieces around and at each other. We both laughed. It seemed hilarious!
    The two crows have kept me laughing with their antics on the pole, and now they have increased their imagination to include affecting humans. I am certain it is not conscious with them, but wouldn’t it be incredible if it was?

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