Re: Great Tailed Grackles, Mourning Doves, and Me

Charles Bishop (ctbishop@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
) wrote:

> In article <Xns9A9C667D04C06opusthepenguinnettax@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Opus
> the Penguin <opusthepenguin+usenet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
>>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.
> 
> Why did the crow/or raven wash them? To increase their ****nytude?
> 

That would be my assumption. But I'm no expert.

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