by Savannah Telfer | Jul 8, 2021 | American Crows, Blue Jay, Education, Rehab Birds, Songbirds, Training
Wildlife Rehabilitation Intern, Melissa Rodriguez feeding a fledgling Common Grackle Our Wildlife Rehabilitation Interns are about halfway through their summer internship! Over the past couple of weeks they have been learning from Alison Meredith, (our Intern...
by divacrows | Mar 15, 2020 | American Crows, Training
I have the honor to announce the arrival of a new royal in our midst. All hail Princess Aurora, Lastborn of the House of Corvidae, First of Her Name, Envoy to All the Counties, Cacher of Mealworms, Protector of the Six Cages, and Mother of Bureaucracies . A full...
by divacrows | Dec 13, 2018 | Blue Jay, Health, Snafu, Training
I was looking through my massive archive of photos of our corvid overlords and noted a dearth of pictures of Snafu. Our favorite blue jay is camera shy. Anytime I show up with a camera (phone or regular), he goes into turbo-flit mode. The result is a series of...
by divacrows | Jan 15, 2018 | American Crows, Gwen & Stephen, Snafu, Training, Zen
It is cold here in Corvidland. Since the new year, we have had temperatures in the single digits, vicious wind, and general unpleasantness. So how is everyone coping? Those with permanent down coats seem to be fine; those who are not so endowed, and whose furnace...
by divacrows | Dec 9, 2017 | Corvids, Holiday, Training
I hate the end of daylight savings time for many reasons, but I’ve just added loss of training time to the very long list. I can only spend time with Snafu and Zen before I go to work, which is not nearly enough. Snafu has been regressing in his training,...
by divacrows | Oct 11, 2017 | American Crows, Training, Zen
If a tree falls in the woods and no one is around, does it make a sound? I don’t know; not my department. More to the point, if Zen takes food from a 12 inch long pair of tweezers that I am holding, has she taken food from me? A question worth pondering. Yes, we...
