Post by Harold Smith on May 10, 2020 9:10:03 GMT
There is a crow that visits my garden everyday. Sometime with friends. They are intelligent, playful and funny. And, at times damned annoying.
One them is driving me mad. I have a largish birdbath which contains freshwater for all the birds. This one crow comes in with slices of a bread, dunks them in the birdbath and makes a meal of the soggy bread. Some of it friends join in. Recently, it has been bringing in Wood Pigeon eggs, dropping them in the birdbath and breaks them open. The birdbath has become an awful mess and completely unsuitable for the other birds.
I go out give the birdbath a thorough clean and fill it with freshwater. It is a guaranteed that within half an hour the crow will be back with more bread or some other noxious item to dunk. This happens anywhere between six and tens times a day. I did try and put out a second birdbath. For the crow this was dunking heaven. It would come in with its slice of bread (goodness knows where it gets it from) and dunks it. Then it promptly picks it up, walks over to the other birdbath and dunks what remains of the bread into the second birdbath. Now I have two birdbaths to clean several times a day. Back to one birdbath.
As I am typing this the crow is dunking its breakfast.
As the crow is forever contaminating the birdbath I have dubbed it 'CORVID 19'.
Harold.
One them is driving me mad. I have a largish birdbath which contains freshwater for all the birds. This one crow comes in with slices of a bread, dunks them in the birdbath and makes a meal of the soggy bread. Some of it friends join in. Recently, it has been bringing in Wood Pigeon eggs, dropping them in the birdbath and breaks them open. The birdbath has become an awful mess and completely unsuitable for the other birds.
I go out give the birdbath a thorough clean and fill it with freshwater. It is a guaranteed that within half an hour the crow will be back with more bread or some other noxious item to dunk. This happens anywhere between six and tens times a day. I did try and put out a second birdbath. For the crow this was dunking heaven. It would come in with its slice of bread (goodness knows where it gets it from) and dunks it. Then it promptly picks it up, walks over to the other birdbath and dunks what remains of the bread into the second birdbath. Now I have two birdbaths to clean several times a day. Back to one birdbath.
As I am typing this the crow is dunking its breakfast.
As the crow is forever contaminating the birdbath I have dubbed it 'CORVID 19'.
Harold.
