Photos of Huginn & Muninn

[agoodwinsmith]

You will remember, in my post here:
http://agoodwinsmith.livejournal.com/143195.html
that I spoke of having started to feed some crows, and how that was going.

Yesterday I remembered to get some photos:







Well, that seemed to work okay.

I didn't say they were good photos.  :)

Comments

[sammason.livejournal.com]

I like it that you've trained your crows to peck in unison ;-)

[agoodwinsmith.livejournal.com]

Heh. :)

Mostly they bum in unison. :)

[cat63.livejournal.com]

Crowing about your achievements, huh? [exit, pursued by a raven]

[agoodwinsmith.livejournal.com]

Mwahahaha. :)

This year I have discovered the difference between crows and ravens. One is that ravens eat crow nestlings, if they can get the chance. Two is that this, of course, makes crows crazy, and they will group dive-bomb a raven. Three is that ravens are so much bigger than crows that they probably eat adult crows, if they catch them, so the dive bombing is not safe. Four is that ravens are solitary, whereas crows are usually always in groups. Five is that the calls are quite different: the crows make a harsh "caw, caw" sounds, whereas ravens make a rolling "roook, rooook" sound. (That's ook as in book, not ook as in kook.)

I keep trying to get a picture of the raven, but they are always blurry, and nothing in the photo gives any sense of scale, so the blurs just look like crows.

But aren't my peanut-eaters cute? :)

[sammason.livejournal.com]

Whenever I've heard ravens, they've croaked like frogs. And they have this adorable habit of flipping over to fly on their backs.

Btw I don't understand your verb 'bum'.

[agoodwinsmith.livejournal.com]

To bum: to mooch, to cadge, to supplicate, to beg. To ask in an ingratiating manner for charity.

As in the song

Halleluiah I'm a bum
halleluiah bum again
halleluiah give us a handout to revive us again
I went to a house
and knocked on the door
the lady said bum-bum you've been here before
halleluiah I'm a bum
halleluiah bum again
halleluiah give us a handout to revive us again.

[agoodwinsmith.livejournal.com]

Gol durn it - I've been leaving my smirkies off everything lately.

Here's the one for above: :)

[cat63.livejournal.com]

They are indeed :)

I knew that ravens were much bigger than crows (not that we get ravens where I live) but do you know the difference between crows and rooks, as taught me by my late Aged Pa?

Tis that if you see a took on its own , it's a crow, but if you see a lot of crows together, they're rooks :)