thank you for making this video! i love seeing others interested in our animal relatives -especially crows who are so particularly funny and charismatic. my neighborhood crowmies were using this strategy - and the escalated dive bombing - with a hawk a few weeks ago. so cool!
I'm in Scotland and have been feeding the crows every day outside for about a year. Anyway, a few months ago at the start of summer there were small songbirds around. I heard the crow who nests in a tree right outside my flat (apartment for Americans lol) cawing really loudly. I opened the kitchen window and took a look outside, the downstairs neighbour's cat had one of these songbirds in its mouth and the crow was cawing at it. I looked at the crow on my gutter and the crow looked at me then started tapping its beak on the gutter then looked back at me then cawed loudly at the cat. I then began to make noises at the cat with my mouth which the cat ignored. After doing this a few times and the crow tapping the gutter then looking at me I decided I should be louder and clapped my hands instead. This worked, the cat got a shock, dropped the songbird which immediately escaped (with the crow shooting off rapidly to chase it). It dawned on me later....did the crow just teach me how to get the cat the cat to drop the songbird?
Great story! Part of the intent with those scolding calls is to attract other birds and animals to help make life more difficult for the predator. So while those calls weren't specifically directed towards you alone... that is essentially what the crow was saying! Thanks for sharing
Wow, what an interesting experience. I notice in your story that the sound of a hand clap is more similar to the sound of a beak tap on a gutter. So since your initial instinct failed in effectiveness, perhaps subconsciously you utilized the part of your body which could create a louder sharper sound. Nobody can know for sure what actually the crow intended vs what you received, but perhaps if you observe any more crows responding to a feline predator with sharp sounds, it could be a direct communication
I've seen this behaviour a few times in the past couple of weeks. A young eagle keeps perching atop buildings beside my workplace, and the crows put on quite the show. My co-workers often so what they're doing to watch
Hey great videos 👍 I’ve recently found a rookery near me (chorley U.K.) there fantastic to watch ,chattering away you get the sense that there one big family there amazing , thanks for your vids ! And good luck 🤞
I saw this exact behavior a couple months ago in the orchard behind my house. They were very noisy so i looked around and it was all because a hawk was cruising by above them.
There's this crow that constantly shows up at my upstairs balcony yelling and pecking at the windows. He does this every evening. Why do you think that is? I go outside to see him away sometimes and he goes into a tree and continues to yell at me lol
Yes they are very territorial and have no fear..a huge great black hawk came all my ravens sat near it they were 1/3 of its size..I was afraid for them at first .the hawk eventually left
thank you for making this video! i love seeing others interested in our animal relatives -especially crows who are so particularly funny and charismatic. my neighborhood crowmies were using this strategy - and the escalated dive bombing - with a hawk a few weeks ago. so cool!
I'm in Scotland and have been feeding the crows every day outside for about a year. Anyway, a few months ago at the start of summer there were small songbirds around. I heard the crow who nests in a tree right outside my flat (apartment for Americans lol) cawing really loudly.
I opened the kitchen window and took a look outside, the downstairs neighbour's cat had one of these songbirds in its mouth and the crow was cawing at it. I looked at the crow on my gutter and the crow looked at me then started tapping its beak on the gutter then looked back at me then cawed loudly at the cat. I then began to make noises at the cat with my mouth which the cat ignored. After doing this a few times and the crow tapping the gutter then looking at me I decided I should be louder and clapped my hands instead.
This worked, the cat got a shock, dropped the songbird which immediately escaped (with the crow shooting off rapidly to chase it).
It dawned on me later....did the crow just teach me how to get the cat the cat to drop the songbird?
Great story! Part of the intent with those scolding calls is to attract other birds and animals to help make life more difficult for the predator. So while those calls weren't specifically directed towards you alone... that is essentially what the crow was saying! Thanks for sharing
Wow, what an interesting experience. I notice in your story that the sound of a hand clap is more similar to the sound of a beak tap on a gutter. So since your initial instinct failed in effectiveness, perhaps subconsciously you utilized the part of your body which could create a louder sharper sound. Nobody can know for sure what actually the crow intended vs what you received, but perhaps if you observe any more crows responding to a feline predator with sharp sounds, it could be a direct communication
I've seen this behaviour a few times in the past couple of weeks. A young eagle keeps perching atop buildings beside my workplace, and the crows put on quite the show. My co-workers often so what they're doing to watch
That's awesome! Thanks for sharing 🙂
Hey great videos 👍 I’ve recently found a rookery near me (chorley U.K.) there fantastic to watch ,chattering away you get the sense that there one big family there amazing , thanks for your vids ! And good luck 🤞
Thanks for watching!
I saw this exact behavior a couple months ago in the orchard behind my house. They were very noisy so i looked around and it was all because a hawk was cruising by above them.
Very cool, thanks for sharing!
There's this crow that constantly shows up at my upstairs balcony yelling and pecking at the windows. He does this every evening. Why do you think that is? I go outside to see him away sometimes and he goes into a tree and continues to yell at me lol
remember a group of crows is called a murder.
Yes they are very territorial and have no fear..a huge great black hawk came all my ravens sat near it they were 1/3 of its size..I was afraid for them at first .the hawk eventually left
Yeah they get pretty close sometimes, but they definitely seem to know the limits of their targets. Thanks for sharing!