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more sneaky ravens

To: Andrew <>
Subject: more sneaky ravens
From: <>
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 15:09:27 +1000
Not fishing related but my local ravens are getting sneaky with hen eggs.   If 
I leave the door of the hen house open, quite understandably, the ravens are in 
there quick smart pinching the eggs. 

I've been keeping the hen house door closed more but now I've realised, after 
it's happened a little too often,  that if I'm on the way back to the house 
carrying the eggs and, as always happens, decide to do something further 
outside and place the eggs down, when I return not long later they have 
magically disappeared!   And I've a BIG idea who the culprit must be...... I 
now feel like I'm being watched!   After losing 3 beautiful, large fresh eggs 
yesterday that I placed carefully down on some straw bales in the carport, I've 
decided to do a "plant" and hide with my camera hopefully to catch them in the 
act. 

Cheers,
Karen Pearson
Warrandyte.


---- Andrew <> wrote: 
> Hi,
> 
> We also have Australian Ravens which soften bread in the birdbath.  I 
> presume that in this case when the bird baths ran out, he used the dam, 
> realized fish were attracted and they were more of a meal than bread.  
> What I would really like to know now is whether that Crow is the only 
> one in the vicinity which does it and/or whether the Crow's offspring 
> use the method.  ie is this cultural trait passed on.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Andrew
> 
>
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