Bird Watching: Daily Pics. Vol 50, 1 by wallaby1

wallaby1 wrote:
nanny, yep, I spend a lot of time uder that bush, lol, not many others though. It's a good hideout near the oak trees. You're on a roll, great pics!

Amazing colours on the Painted Bunting, Marilyn. It looks a lot like a parrot.

Great pics Linthicum, it must be unusual to get Eagles in the act.

Trois, your second shot is great, such an expression! Does the pepper powder bother the birds? It looks like it's had a hot shock, lol. Legs and feet on it! They look like metal.

You seem to have a lot of Hawks Deb. I see you have answered the hot question too, nice pics!

It's been wet and windy today, I only have a pic of a crow from yesterday. I could have cropped it closer before I transferred it, but I liked the effect from farther away. A large crow of sorts, I could see an orange beak though, it was 'braking' to land on the oak.

I went searching, found this article on crows that make tools,

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2178920.stm

Five years later, more tricks, and man doesn't know why they do this. I would say it's down to where the insects are placed and the nature of the wood, maybe narrow cracks in hard woods.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6948446.stm

Maybe my Jackdaw was making a tool?