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May 21, 2024 17:24
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- Emmideer
- Oct 20, 2011
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Lovely night, no?
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Grimey Drawer
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Corvids and can’t spread Covid, right?
I ask because crows spread the t-virus in Resident Evil: Extinction by feasting on infected corpses. Are we looking at a similar scenario, op?
Nothing to worry about! Crows are our friends.
Is scrub jay talk okay here? They're corvids.
A pair of scrub jays lives in my small urban yard. I've been making friends with them by sitting out at the same time each day and giving them peanuts. At first, I had to toss them at least three feet away before they'd swoop down to get them, but now they'll come right up to me. Or, rather, the female will come right up to me. I call her JJ, because that's how I call out to her ("Jay, Jay!"), and I'm just very creative like that. When I talk to JJ, she makes little croaking noises back at me. Meanwhile, her mate (whom I call 'Big Blue,' 'cause he's an unusually big and chonky jay and, like I said, I am very creative) will flutter over to sit on a nearby branch of the cherry tree and watch the proceedings suspiciously.
The last couple of days, JJ has been nowhere to be seen, and I was getting worried about her. But then today, Big Blue came close to me to accept a peanut for the very first time. Usually the jays bury the peanuts, but this time Big Blue cracked it open right there in front of me, gulped down one of the nuts, and took the other one into the overgrown robinia hedge. He did the same thing with a second nut, and then a few minutes later, he emerged with JJ in tow. Big Blue then retreated up to his usual tree branch while JJ came over to croak for a couple more peanuts before she returned to the hedge.
So I guess now I know where their nest is. I wonder if JJ's laid any eggs yet. The internet tells me this is the right time of the year for that to be happening.
That’s absolutely fine! As a fellow JJ, thank you for this story.
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Mar 29, 2020 16:20
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- Emmideer
- Oct 20, 2011
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Lovely night, no?
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Grimey Drawer
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Actually it's pronounced "crow-vid," you moron, you absol
Here's a crow vid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbSu2PXOTOc
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Mar 29, 2020 17:37
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- Emmideer
- Oct 20, 2011
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Lovely night, no?
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Grimey Drawer
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There’s been a murder!
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