Re: Great Tailed Grackles, Mourning Doves, and Me

Greg Goss (gossg@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
) wrote:

> I was on my deck watching the street once and saw a crow.  He was
> digging through a discarded McD bag.  He ate a few missed french
> fries directly, but his response to the unused ketchup packs was
> interesting.  He'd take the pack to a nearby puddle, wash it
> without puncturing it, then fly off somewhere with it.  He'd come
> back in a couple of minutes and resume digging through the bag.
> 
> Wa****ng it?  If he's sta****ng food for the future, I guess spilled
> ketchup on the outside of the pack would go bad?
>

Crows like ****ny stuff. Bits of foil, coins, etc. Were the packets 
****ny? I'm picturing standard white glossy reflective packets. Maybe 
that's within range of what a crow likes. If they were foil, 
definitely.

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Opus the Penguin
A honeybee may have the behavior for the waggle dance imprinted in its 
DNA, but you aren't going to learn the Watusi that way. - S. Checker