by divacrows | Jan 2, 2022 | Diva Crows, Ed Birds, Holiday, Rehab Birds
Diva Crows survived the wild ride that was 2021. In all, we cared for a total of 449 birds during 2021, which is more than double the amount we took in 2020 (being 202 birds)! This is thanks to Diva Crows’ amazing interns to worked through a plague of unknown...
by divacrows | May 24, 2021 | Education, Songbirds
Brood X Cicadas have not-so-graciously made their appearance all over Fairfax County. The good news for us at Diva Crows is that they are great food for the birds. We humans might be super annoyed at their endless mating calls, exoskeletons scattered around our lawns,...
by divacrows | Feb 14, 2019 | Health, Holiday, Snafu
How did it get to be mid-February? I blame Snafu. We brought him inside due to the very cold weather and he has taken up is position in the center of the house with great gusto. He shows his “appreciation” for being rescued from the Polar Vortex by bobbing...
by divacrows | Dec 24, 2018 | Blue Jay, Holiday, Rehab Birds
I thought the rehab season was over. Then ten days ago I got a call about a beautiful adult blue jay. He had taken it upon himself to fly into a window and given himself an impressive whack on the head. He was turned into VCA animal hospital, and the report I received...
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...
