By Maryanna Gabriel
While Mr. Glinty Eyes flies off and bugs someone else down the road, a friend wrote when she saw my post.
She had a crow story. This crow came to her and her partner when he was injured and unable to fly. He was being heckled by starlings who proceeded to dive bomb the poor thing. Without intervention, it was clear the crow would die. They hoped to nurse him back to health so they decided to rescue him. They built a container for him and named him Chuckie.
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| Chuckette, the pet crow. |
...tried to teach him to fly but he was happy walking around in the cage. We went to the zoo which had a crow habitat to learn how to make a house. Chuckie loved Maude [the dog] and would nestle up to her from inside the cage and groom her. He ended up being a she, when she laid five eggs of the most gorgeous blue colour. My neighbors son, who was 5 at the time, took them for show and tell.
I think that she felt safe in her cage from the outer world. When I would take her out to try to teach her how to fly on the grass, I would use Woody the parrot’s first big bird cage to transport her.
She was very nervous. Unfortunately,no flight, only a dive bomb on the grass. That’s when I put the long boards at different levels in huge 10 x 10 x 5 cage with a top. She would only hop from the different levels and eventually just enjoyed strutting around.
Crows and Ravens nest so high in the trees that it is rare to see their eggs. Crows and Ravens have a language as you may already know with their caws. Sometimes they will mimic our words. However “Chuckette” never did but she would whinny exactly like the horses. From your garbage experience, you can guess that crows and ravens are omnivores. So twice a day, I fed her a mixture of food. Sadly after she laid her eggs, she wasn’t as strong but also after Maude passed, she wasn’t happy and passed.
I hope and think that it was a good life for her.
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| Crow eggs. |