Black Crows…Counting Crows…A LOT of Crows.

Posted on February 8, 2014 by Enchanted Seashells by Princess Rosebud

“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary…”
I did not intentionally trick you into thinking I was referring to the musical groups, OR DID I?

OK, yes I did, hee hee. Sorry.

And sorry for the uninspired Poe reference.

I don’t know about other parts of the country, but we here in Carlsbad are being INUNDATED with crows.

Actually, I think they’re really ravens, but I’m not sure.

There are SO many that it’s now a topic of conversation and everyone stops to take pics when they fly back to wherever they roost in the late afternoon just before sundown.

It’s like an end-of-the-world scenario. Or a Hitchcock movie.

Yesterday, I heard an amazingly loud cacophony, ran upstairs, and took a series of photos.

Some people, like my aunt, used to call them, “miserable crows” but I like them.

I know crows/ravens/whatever they are, are highly intelligent creatures.

I know that wolves and ravens have a social and mutually beneficial relationship.

Can you count the crows? Or ravens?

In all the trees as far as the eye can see, a murder of crows or a congress of ravens. Whatever. All I know for sure is that there are a shitload of birds here. A little after school learning going on. The birds are coming, the birds are coming! Who’s up for a soccer game?

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26 thoughts on “Black Crows…Counting Crows…A LOT of Crows.”

NotAPunkRocker on February 8, 2014 at 4:13 PM said:

We had a bunch of crows outside my office for a few weeks in the fall. Other than my friends making murder jokes, my wish for Rod Taylor from “The Birds” and the cute car didn’t materialize

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- Enchanted Seashells, Confessions of a Tugboat Captain's Wife on February 8, 2014 at 4:48 PM said:
  
  Is it global warming? A warning? They are super loud but I’d rather hear a zillion birds than most humans I know lol
  
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El Guapo on February 8, 2014 at 4:38 PM said:

I don’t think the Ornithological Society uses “shitload” as a designation…

Crows and Ravens also have places of honor in Native American myth.

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- Enchanted Seashells, Confessions of a Tugboat Captain's Wife on February 8, 2014 at 4:49 PM said:
  
  Well, they SHOULD. Shitload is a wonderful word. Yes, I should have included that, thank you for mentioning Native Americans.
  
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http://theenglishprofessoratlarge.com on February 8, 2014 at 5:03 PM said:

We have a murder of crows that periodically inhabit a Giant Sequoia tree across the street from me. They set up a raucous chorus that seems to go on for hours, After a day of low flying, terrorizing small animals, including dogs and cats, they disappear. I’m expecting them again any day now, and it bothers me if they don’t show up, as if the universe has tilted.

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- Enchanted Seashells, Confessions of a Tugboat Captain's Wife on February 8, 2014 at 5:14 PM said:
  
  Well said! It’s an unsettling silence when you do NOT hear them, I agree. I saw 3 crows attacking a hawk yesterday, dive-bombing him, but I didn’t have my camera with me. And now that you mention it, I remember how they’d terrorize my poor old cat sleeping in a patch of sun in the yard. Thank you for stopping by and commenting.
  
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Beth Ann on February 8, 2014 at 5:41 PM said:

I have millions of them in my yard in Iowa. As I type this they are raiding my bird feeders. I try to put bread out on the ground so they will eat that and stay away from the feeders but that does not work. I am always going and slamming the kitchen door to scare them aware. Ugh. I hate crows. I guess they must be everywhere.

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- Enchanted Seashells, Confessions of a Tugboat Captain's Wife on February 8, 2014 at 5:46 PM said:
  
  In their defense, ha ha, I have learned they are very smart. Now I say hello to them and hopefully if I am nice, they’ll get that vibe and not gather by the dozens in our backyard and wake us up! That’s nice that you’re putting bread out; I think they prob see that as an appetizer for the birdseed!
  
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  - Beth Ann on February 8, 2014 at 6:13 PM said:
    
    You are most likely correct about the appetizer part. But I started doing that AFTER they were perching in the feeders kicking all the seed out. Between the crows and the deer the birds have to fight for their food.
    
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  - Enchanted Seashells, Confessions of a Tugboat Captain's Wife on February 8, 2014 at 7:00 PM said:
    
    I know there’s supposed to be squirrel proof feeders, are there unwanted bird feeder feeders? I didn’t know deer ate seeds; what part of the country are you in? Wish we had them here.
    
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  - Beth Ann on February 8, 2014 at 7:32 PM said:
    
    We live in Iowa— they get pretty hungry when it is all snow covered. I have had quite a variety of feeders and the ones I have now are up high enough they can’t get in them but they try!!!!
    
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  - Enchanted Seashells, Confessions of a Tugboat Captain's Wife on February 8, 2014 at 8:33 PM said:
    
    I always wanted to have a deer as a pet following me around etc.
    
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sharechair on February 8, 2014 at 8:02 PM said:

I get a lot of crows and I’ll admit I don’t like it when they all land in my yard. You can catch me almost any day standing at my kitchen door clapping my hands loudly to chase them away.

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- Enchanted Seashells, Confessions of a Tugboat Captain's Wife on February 8, 2014 at 8:32 PM said:
  
  But they come right back, don’t they? I’m trying to understand them with the hope that they will feel my empathy lol
  
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Marilyn Armstrong on February 8, 2014 at 11:19 PM said:

A genuine murder of crows!

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- Enchanted Seashells, Confessions of a Tugboat Captain's Wife on February 8, 2014 at 11:42 PM said:
  
  Remarkable, huh?
  
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djmatticus on February 10, 2014 at 6:27 PM said:

Creepy!!!

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- Enchanted Seashells, Confessions of a Tugboat Captain's Wife on February 10, 2014 at 7:02 PM said:
  
  Do you have a plethora in your area?
  
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  - djmatticus on February 10, 2014 at 7:04 PM said:
    
    We did awhile ago… maybe we sent them all your direction because I haven’t noticed them as much recently.
    
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  - Enchanted Seashells, Confessions of a Tugboat Captain's Wife on February 10, 2014 at 7:06 PM said:
    
    Hmm, global warming or something?
    
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  - djmatticus on February 10, 2014 at 7:13 PM said:
    
    Probably just random… a bunch of normal migrating murders merged into one gigantic one.
    
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phalanxednoise on March 30, 2015 at 3:11 AM said:

Hey, I was looking for crow pictures on google and came across yours. Is it alright if I use it for a short story I wrote? I’m putting a link in the article to the source but let me know if you want me to change it and I will of course do so. Best regards [Link to post below]

https://phalanxednoise.wordpress.com/2015/03/29/other-friends/

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- Enchanted Seashells, Confessions of a Tugboat Captain's Wife on March 30, 2015 at 4:35 AM said:
  
  Yes, of course, thanks for asking.
  
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  - phalanxednoise on March 30, 2015 at 4:49 AM said:
    
    No problem. I look forward to seeing more of your photos.
    
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  - Enchanted Seashells, Confessions of a Tugboat Captain's Wife on March 30, 2015 at 4:07 PM said:
    
    I found an awesome site for photogs, Youpic.com. I’m not a good photographer (wish I was) but I post a lot of pics there.
    
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