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7/23/2017 4:31pm
I'm a bird, of stealth, and waste....
Names Canuck, at your service, Vancouver, British Columbia.
In a 7/11 this morning, getting a coffee, see this little fella sitting outside. Walk out, want to get a picture, he doesn't move. Preens himself a bit, then pecks at the wrapper on the bottles. Move a little closer, within 3 feet, he doesn't move. Get the phone out, and a guy walks up behind me, says "I see you've met Canuck.". Turns out he's local, always within a block or two, completely tame. Been IN to McDonalds down the street, everyone knows him. Big hit with everybody. As the two of us are talking, (the guy and I, not the bird) a mini van pulls up, and the bird flies to the passenger side mirror. Driver tosses out a doughnut, passenger looks at her and says "You know he won't eat that, you have to break it UP for him.". Sure enough, she gets out, I hand the treat to her, and she breaks it apart, to feed Canuck. Hilarious. Had a tag on his left leg, but it's a wild raven, not someone's pet. Good start to my day.
Names Canuck, at your service, Vancouver, British Columbia.
In a 7/11 this morning, getting a coffee, see this little fella sitting outside. Walk out, want to get a picture, he doesn't move. Preens himself a bit, then pecks at the wrapper on the bottles. Move a little closer, within 3 feet, he doesn't move. Get the phone out, and a guy walks up behind me, says "I see you've met Canuck.". Turns out he's local, always within a block or two, completely tame. Been IN to McDonalds down the street, everyone knows him. Big hit with everybody. As the two of us are talking, (the guy and I, not the bird) a mini van pulls up, and the bird flies to the passenger side mirror. Driver tosses out a doughnut, passenger looks at her and says "You know he won't eat that, you have to break it UP for him.". Sure enough, she gets out, I hand the treat to her, and she breaks it apart, to feed Canuck. Hilarious. Had a tag on his left leg, but it's a wild raven, not someone's pet. Good start to my day.
Buddy of mine was up in the Nortwest Territories, took the cooler out of his bunk, while he slept, and put it on the roof of his bunk, so the bears wouldn't raid it. Woke up a few hours later, thumping and banging on the roof, Caaaw! Caaaaaaaw! Caaaaw! Gets out of the truck, fuckin ravens had pried the latch open on the cooler, and had cleaned a lot of it out. The one thing they couldn't get away with, was the giant kielbasa coil he had in it. They kept trying to pick it up and fly away with it, but it was too heavy, kept falling back on the bunk roof. Bunch of them up there scrapping over it. Pretty much all he salvaged out of everything.
Got thinking about this bird, wondering if he was a fledgling rescue, and that's how he got so used to people. Like I said, he was tagged, interesting story, I'm sure.
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One day my wife saw her walking around with a litter of cubs, She was about knee high at the shoulders.
Presently we have 2 huge hawks that are in the back yard every morning at the start of their day.
At night time there are 2 owls that hang around. this is a shitty phone pic at 5:30 with very little light. The one on top of the pole does not have his wings spread, he's just that big.
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Guy holding the antlers smiling clearly has no idea what's behind him lol.
Gators here too. We've always had some native in the SE corner of OK but they are moving north. Army Corp put out a warning at Lake Texoma, 12-15 footers and they are residents, not transient.
Was driving me nuts last night, had to get the scoop on this. Google "Canuck the Crow". Plenty of stories on this little fella. People said he was the infamous knife carrying bird, but I didn't find the proof until last night. It's him.
Apparently, my career as an Ornothologist will have to wait, not a raven. Guess the beak is a little small.
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