by divacrows | Nov 22, 2018 | Corvids, Holiday
For decades, the Corvid Staff have argued over whether cranberry should be served in sauce or jelly form. This year we are having a quiet, but chilly, Thanksgiving. No party-crashing cooper’s hawks and even the local crows seem to have gone home to...
by divacrows | Sep 8, 2018 | American Crows, Blue Jay, Health, Holiday, Rehab Birds, Snafu
Labor Day has come and gone, as have days of 90+ degree temperatures. The heat was pretty brutal last week: Snafu ignored a pinkie mouse in favor of flying around with an ice chip in his beak. Even Gwen and Stephen, despite their African heritage, spent most of the...
by divacrows | Mar 25, 2018 | Breeding, Holiday
Apologies to Diva Crow’s devoted readers! It appears the staff is undergoing some sort of organizational molt. Aside from Daylight Savings Time, we have been remiss in acknowledging the advent of spring. But in all fairness, spring itself is a little behind the...
by divacrows | Mar 11, 2018 | Gwen & Stephen, Holiday
Daylight Savings Time is back—or over, I always forget which. In any case, it means I can see the birds when I get home after work without scaring them half to death, as they distinctly do not like nighttime visitors, even those who come bearing peanuts. It also means...
by divacrows | Feb 14, 2018 | Holiday
St. Valentine is the patron saint of beekeepers, so Minion Man is insisting that it’s really Beekeeper Day. Unless it’s really St. Gobnait who is in charge of the bees. (That’s St. Deborah or Abigail for those of us outside of Ireland.) The...
by divacrows | Dec 31, 2017 | Gwen & Stephen, Holiday
NEW YEARS DECREE Whereas Minion Man and Room Service Woman’s eldest fledgling has left her home territory; Whereas said fledgling, aka Super Daughter, has engaged in allopreening and allofeeding with a suitable male human fledgling, Whereas these two young...
