Still there 5-5.30 p.m.
> Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:12:49 +1100> From: >
> To: > Subject: [Birding-Aus] House Crow > > Hello
> bird lovers,> > This morning, for forty minutes after 10am, I saw the house
> crow at the children's playground in James Meehan Reserve, behind Dee Why
> Beach, in Sydney. It is a fit, confident and surprisingly striking bird with
> deep, glossy purple coming out on its wings when illuminated by direct
> sunlight. Its smoky grey neck, particular beak and
> butcherbird-meets-bowerbird look were cool. The first time I saw it it was on
> Clyde Rd. with a Snickers chocolate wrapper in its beak! After this, it flew
> into some trees to sharpen/clean its beak and meditate, then cruised over to
> some waste bins lined up along Clyde Rd.... After five minutes of tearing at
> rubbish exposed at the top of one of these bins, the bird unearthed half a
> piece of toast and preceded to devour it hungrily in a paperbark! There were
> a dozen magpies and several ravens around the playground and all of them let
> the crow get about it's business. After feeding, the crow had a drink from a
> pot in someone's front yard, then perched on a tree limb by the playground
> and calmly rested. Not once did the creature make any caw or cackle. Having
> seen this, the rarest vagrant I've ever spotted, I think I'm officially a
> twitcher. > > I'd be getting in quick to see this bird, folks, as NSW NPWS
> may be wanting to kill it, sadly. > > Well done to Christina of the Northside
> Birders (who I met this morning) for finding this bird a week ago. She had
> brilliant powers of observation!> > LJ >
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