Those Crazy Crows
The Great Cheeto Heist
Today I'm posting some images of a couple of Crows Stealing from children and then each other. O.o
We have a small pre school/datcare next door and today was an eat outside day for lunch and a birthday party so there was lots of booty for our little feathered bandits to plunder and pillage.
Now there was probably pounds of food out for them to loot but one goes in and scores a couple of Cheetos as a child yells HEEEYYY those are mine.
Then one, then two crows come swooping into the yard, one with two Cheetos and the other chasing.
They ripped around the yard at high speed banking, diving and circling around the the trees then out and back over the preschool.
Still a bit bewildered why that other one didn't go down and get his own Cheetos, or cake, or any of the many other goodies over there.
Lucky screamed like a little girl and pulled off some impressive acrobatics and the Hawk was chasing him as they flew out of sight.
My 7D does 10 frames per second so I was able to get a lot more images that I did with the ol T7.
Oh crap, I almost forgot to give a Caw out to @corvidae
She is most interested in the subject as you can imagin by the name
I was calling him something else at this time, like little @#$%. lol
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Awwwwww I love Lucky's battle scars!
These are awesome shots! I look forward to seeing more.
Remind me again what part of the world you're in? These look like either American Crows or Carrion Crows?
Hello @corvidae ... That was fast lol and Thanks.
Those are American Crows, I live next to Humboldt Bay in Northern California.
I'll make sure and tag you for my Corvid posts unless my CRS acts up again lol
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Oh my gosh you're so close! Next time I road trip in that direction I'll hit you up. :)
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Wow! What awesome shots! I'm very impressed! ♥️
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Thanks @melinda010100 been working on fly offs and in flight action shots now that I have a rig that will do 10 frames per sec. with great auto focus.....
Man I thought I took a lot of images with the T7 ( 3 frames per sec with no buffer so 3 the first sec and then 1 per sec after lol) Now I go out for a couple hours and come home with 700 to a 1000 images O.o holy cow. lol
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Those are some amazing photos! We have lots of crows around here, but I have not been fortunate enough to capture one flying away with stolen bounty, yet.
As often as not, we see the crows chasing the hawks out of their territory; I've even seen crows divebombing eagles, while making lots of noise.
Yeah the crows are good at pilfering lol and with the preschool next door there are plenty of squabbles over any goodies scored.
As for the Hawk, I've never seen one hit a crow but it was alone so maybe the Hawk got some payback for past interactions because the Ravens and crows drive off birds of prey often here.
What fun ! I enjoyed your photos and story.
I was surprised a hawk went after a bird as big as a crow. They may do it all the time, but I have only witnessed them going after smaller birds and small rabbits.
Yeah I was thinking since the Crow was alone the Hawk got some payback for the times it's been ganged up on by Crows and Ravens.
Followed all of the story and pics - fantastic! I thought that were two peanuts, but you say 'two Cheetos' -- what actually was the trophey?.. I did not understand exactly. ☘️
It was two Cheetos, they were bright orange in the viewfinder but I have to over expose about a stop and a half over the sky to get any detail in a black bird and that will blow out the highlights ( ie the orange cheeto)
Cheetos are a favorite at the preschool next door so the get them all the time, and squabble over each and ever one.
a-aaaa! Cheetos are popcorn snacks, now got it. the shape is exactly like peanuts, but not the color; I was a bit close ;)
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OMG! Amazing shots. Very funny.
Audacious birds.
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