Every week @nelinoeva hosts a fun contest in the Feathered Friends Community. This week's theme is free. Whatever you want as long as it's a bird.
It's also almost over so you better hurry if you wanna enter your freebird pictures in the contest.
My freebirds are a collection of thumbnail shots from my Crow Cams on my CrowTube Channel. I take screenshot stills from the videos and edit them in Lightroom to make them extra enticing so people will click on them. What do you think? Are you enticed?
You are??
Wonderful! Then aren't you glad I've provided links and descriptions for each one.
Looks like the Parkers remembered how to Crow Cam after all.
99% sure they don't have any babies this year. That's two years in a row. One of Plum and Momo's babies (I think, based on the baby looking a lot like Plum) is offering to stand in as a part-time extra-mouth-to-feed, but Zephram is not having any of it. Tarot seems a little more lenient. Moya is in the trees, complaining as always.
Don't miss the slow-mos at the end.
I'm pretty sure this is Bravely in the beginning, Hopper's nestmate sister who isn't around the family as often when I'm there. She's been showing up more, though. Sometimes I confuse her with her mom for half a second.
Hopper doesn't want to share his kibbles and omelette with her. That stamp looks like a tiny temper tantrum.
Yay Melbies!! Yay Voolie! Here's a sweaty, fly-ridden, hot hot Crow Cam celebrating Voolie not being deceased. There was a ball of black feathers, perhaps from crow, perhaps another bird, that blew by in the breeze and set everyone off.
Tried a slightly different editing style with this one. Don't miss the jumping for joy at the end...
Cube things are egg. Japanese omelette style.
JJ's first full Crow Cam! She comes in yelling at 0:30, then comes onto the set at 1:20.
Super long video, but some good mama/baby time at the end. Unfortunately I made an editing error that messed up a clip of Junior trying sloppily to assert dominance over baby, which I didn't discover until after the hour it took to export the video. Fortunately, though, there are slow-mos of this at the end.
That other baby in the background is the Neighbors' boy. I'm calling him Pepper because he's got a spicy personality. Very persistent when it comes to food. He knows he's trespassing, but he's staging a protest that HIS crow lady is feeding OTHER crows. I watched for a long time while Lod chased him from tree to wire to tree to wire to roof, back and forth, until he finally "left," meaning he landed far enough away to pout without getting chased off.
Meanwhile, JJ stuffs her face while everyone else takes care of crow business. Remind you of anyone? Her big brother, perhaps?
We've been getting some random moments with the Parkers again during our intermittent heat waves.
I'm not sure who that other bird is with Zephram. I don't think it's Tarot, too small. The persistent greediness (likely inherited from dad) makes me think it's ElbeeWeebee, Tarot's nestmate sister whom I haven't knowingly seen since their fledgling/juvenile days.
Slow-mo of Zephram giving a watchful side-eye at the end reminds me just how complex crow language is.
Crow Cam: She's a Bald Mama Jama
The crows that have territory between the Red Bowl, Neighbors, and Plum and Momo. Still don't have a name for them as we don't interact much. Pilot and I pass through their turf rather quickly, as he's always eager to get to the park.
Kind of a busy-ish corner on pleasant days so there were plenty of interruptions. These guys have witnessed plenty of Crow Cams being made, so they aren't as timid as the average newbies. Still wary, though. That's smart.
Slow motion bald mama at the end. She's molting so hard she's practically a turkey.
Just a quickie with Junior and Lod. They seemed a little jumpy this morning.
They came back for more eggs later.
Lod grabs a piece of pork fat to go in the slow mo at the end.
A larger group of many juveniles and some adults outside one of the highly crow-friendly houses in my neighborhood. You can see a red dish for water behind the fire hydrant. She's always got water out for them in the summer.
Late summer rain! A bittersweet experience.
These kids followed us all the way into tomorrow's Crow Cam with the Parkers.
The kid group that followed me from yesterday's Crow Cam, House of Fun. They thought they would try their luck snagging snacks from The Parkers' turf. Zephram tolerated it a bit, but got in a couple pokes and snaps to remind everyone who's boss.
The way young juveniles walk like they're wearing oversized hobbit feet fills my heart with joy.
Crow Cam: So Long and Thanks for All the Kibble
I scored a bag of roasted unsalted shelled peanuts the other day and wanted to share them with my friends. They have some interest in the peanuts, but most of the crows have snubbed them. I guess it's not peanut season yet. The rains have started coming back, but it's still very warm. Peanuts are pretty dense, maybe they're more of a cold weather food. Or maybe these peanuts suck.
Biggie is being a jerk to Junior. I remember when he was a docile, sweet baby. Now he's mister testosterone. Bo was like that before he moved away and got married. Worse, actually. I saw him flip over his own mom (not Junior) when there was more than enough food for everyone. Lod kicked him out not long after that. I hope Biggie doesn't get that aggro. Crows will do what crows do, but when they act that aggressive I stop feeding them in group situations.
I think the camera lenses were pretty dirty for this video. Probably peanut oil. Oops.
Have a great weekend!
Thanks for considering possibly maybe watching some of my Crow Cams. And if you do watch them, thanks also for hitting those like buttons, subscribing to my CrowTube Channel, and putting the playlists on for your dog and cat when you leave the house so I can log some extra watch time for my channel.
YouTube informed me months ago that I was moments away from monetizing. My watch time was increasing dramatically each day. I was thrilled! And then, suddenly, my views capped out a few hundred hours below the annual money-making requirements, even though I post five or more videos a week.
Not suspicious at all, YouTube. Not.Suspicious.At.All.
But a least I've got Hive. I'll always have Hive.
Right???
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