Friday, July 11, 2008
Mangled Foot's fledglings
I think these are Mangled Foot's fledglings . There are at least 7 nests that I have now located (and I think a couple more) and several are close to this campsite so it is possible these are another crow's or from 2 different nest's (I doubt that).
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This is campsite 20 or 21 where I originally thought Mangled foot and perhaps one other crow had a nest. Back in June I caught one of the younger adult crows tugging at a package of hamburger buns a camper had left out. A pan lid was also on the ground nearby and I thought a crow had probably been playing with it. The campers returned and laughed about it and said they had already 'met' the crows. They had been hearing frequent crows calls that sounded odd which I explained were baby crows (and those calls are how I found the nests - I knew they were there because the adults were hanging around and pretty aggressive both in squawking and diving when I walked near certain trees along the road ).
While I was sitting at a picnic table eating dinner I saw a fledgling leave a tree and land on a log for the first time. Unfortunately my photos are still usually poor quality/ poorly focused. I have not yet learned the art of choosing the best setting to get the best auto focus. Or else my camera has cheap optics to match the cheap price I paid for it....
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