Mr. Crow of Ainsworth Drive

Yesterday's Mr. Turkey of Jefferson Gardens loves to run the neighborhood; however, crows are in stiff competition for being the lead birds. They heckle Mr. Turkey every chance they get. At the time of this photo, several crows were foraging on the ground and the crow on the sign was enjoying his elevated vantage point. While up there, he used the sign as an implement to clean off his beak. He raked his beak across the top of the sign several times. Birds hate having anything on their beaks. There is some evidence that crows have extremely high IQ's and, they not only use tools, they can make them. 

Since Ainsworth Drive is the street with all of the decorations at Christmas, perhaps Mr. Crow was plotting to assemble something on his own. He has the smarts and he sure was being vocal about something. It is so much fun to follow the hapenings in our Greensboro neighhborhoods. The longer we look, the more we appreciate. The more we appreciate, the longer we look.....

Comments

[Jane Mitchell]

Reminiscent of "The Fox and the Crow"except the former out-foxed the lofty crow in Aesop's fable.

[Janis 0f So Cal]

Crows and Ravens are very,very smart as birds go. I am sure they think of Mr. Turkey as an overgrown special needs bird since he does not really fly well and has a brain near the bottom on the Bird Smarts scale.
I myself often feel the crows are quite judgmental of all things in my yard...even me!