Magpies, Ravens, and Crows--Oh My!

Thanks for joining, res!

Watch out, res, crow-card on the way to your PO Box.

Really happy that you have thought of the crow family. I have a couple of crows that are very friendly and I love them . I shall put photos soon here but very busy at the moment. Back soon

Ooh I love crows and ravens too.  I have a pair of ravens that hang about my workplace from time to time and I caught them grooming eachother last week and managed to snap a bit of a pic but it didn't turn out very well :/

There's a cool raven on my blog -- it's going to someone in this group but I couldn't resist posting NOW 'cuz I like it a lot. :->

This is a rare bird, only found in the Queedom of Retailia, a Red Staring Crow. He would out-stare any cat.

Here's a beaut from Toni Hanner. I really love it!

Beautiful crow by Ruth Giles. 

See also my animals blog post of today.

Those are some crows! 

Weeell, it is not a crow, more an old crone.

Have lots of Halloween fun!

And a rather altered photo of one of 'my' crows. I give them dog biscuits when I go out if I see them. Usually they see me and fly around my head. A little frightening, those beaks... so I always carry dog biscuits in the pocket of my everyday anorak. It also makes me very popular with dogs. The owners tell me their pooches are never so friendly with strangers as they are with me. I never give biscuits to a dog, they are well fed.

Enjoy Autumn it is about to end. 

Martha, your crow is stunning! How did you make that background? Must be a photo app I know nothing about!

Thanks Toni. I was lucky to get a reasonable photo with my phone and then for fun I played with Photo Art Effects until I got something I liked. I was looking for Autumn colours. The app came from Google Play in my Samsung tablet which runs on Android. I don't know if it is available on any other platform. There are umpteen apps with umpteen effects; the problem is which to choose. 

Looks like a pile of delicious noodles!

Great pic, Martha----GRAAAK!

Thanks Jan. I find very  interesting how the sounds animals make are written and pronounced in different languages. For instance dogs say bow wow in English, I believe, guao guao in Spanish and the tiny dog belonging to Obelix says Haaarf! in French ( the h is silent). What about a study of crow language? my crows say usually Cow Cow, pronounced exactly as if they were talking of female bovine cattle. I have occasionally heard Graaak too.

I love all those animal sounds in various languages, too! 

Here the crows say 'kra, kra' (and in Dutch the crow therefore is named 'kraai').

The dogs here say 'waf' or 'woef'. A funny thing concerning the verb 'to bark': in Dutch it is 'blaffen', and in German it is 'bellen'. However, the Dutch word 'bellen' does not mean 'to bark' at all (as said, we say 'blaffen'), but 'bellen' in Dutch means 'to make a phone call' :-)  (I love these kinds of false friends, too ;-) )

How nice you mention Obelix, Martha! I love to read the Asterix books. That little dog is named Idéfix in French and Dutch, and Dogmatix, which has more or less a similar meaning, in English :-)  
(I collect 'Asterix in Corsica' in various languages; as in that album there is a party in which all characters from previous books show up, and it is fun to learn that, for example, the Spanish boy, Pepe Paella y Peseta in Dutch, is named Pepe Costa y Brava in German - and many more word fun :-) )

Thank you!!! Heleen. You are a proper Heleenpedia. I had forgotten Ideefix, so well named, and was too lazy to go through my books. I learned a lot of French with Asterix. I cannot remember if I have Asterix in Corsica and certainly, if I have it, it will be only in French; what a good idea to read it in all languages. 

Back to the animal sounds, I shall keep your learned message and perhaps collect more with the view to make a book.  

Next year is the year of the dog so I could start with that. 

This midday dreary ,while I walked weak and weary in my local park I found a poem, The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe. There are local poetry lovers and corvids lovers in my neighbourhood! It made me happy.

I am interested in exchanging some 'bird art'. If anyone wants to then please let me know!!

Deanna, Lets bird it up!!!!

Hey Toni, I am drawn to bird images of crows and ravens. I have a group I feed in the backyard. They call to me every afternoon for bread or tortillas!! I would love to exchange some art with our little feather friends as the feature.

Great to see so many birds- crowsmagpiesravens- lovers here!

@ Carolyn, nuff sounds nice, however as far as I know pigs in Dutch language 'knorren' (= to knor), so they say 'knor knor' (the 'k' pronounced also), altjough the English 'oink oink' is coming up here in the Netherlands, too :-)

Nuff said, now start drawing corvids :-)

I’m sending out some fun tags at random to members of the group......flying out today !