Submitted by Gitie on 6 February, 2013 - 22:35
by Leah Lemieux (www.rekindlingthewaters.com)
I love being around birds of all kinds, but admit, corvids and parrots are favourites--they are such characters.
Submitted by Gitie on 4 November, 2011 - 20:25
By Belinda Elbourn
A couple of years passed and we had moved to another farm, when Darren came home with a baby crow that he had found on the road.
I named him “Crow” this crow was even nosier than Camry (Darren said this one must be a girl).
Crow lived in our sun room, Crow was very smart she new she wasn’t allowed to enter into the kitchen so she would just sit in the doorway and poke her head in to see what we were doing.
Submitted by Gitie on 1 November, 2011 - 11:49
By Belinda Elbourn
When Darren and I lived just west of Ceduna in South Australia we were very lucky to have shared our lives with 2 very special crows.
The first one to arrive on our door step was Camry, at first Camry was very shy little bird.
But after a day or two soon became a very demanding, cheeky loud little bird.
He spent the first couple of months in our enclosed back veranda.
As we had a huge enclosed fruit tree cadge (Darren and Camry are standing in it in the top photo) we thought it would be best for him to live out there, plenty of room to fly and hide.
Camry soon became very close to Darren, if was to go out to the cadge to feed him he would hide in the orange tree and would not come out.
Submitted by Gitie on 5 June, 2010 - 19:40
In this picture Vicky magpie has just landed on the branch with some food for the young chicks in her nest.
The start of winter, i.e. June is the mating season for magpies. By July the early breeders will have laid their eggs which usually hatch 4 weeks later. The young hatchlings spend a month in the nest developing and growing before they fledge.
Vicky is a late breeder. She doesn't lay her eggs until September and it is well into October before we see her fledgelings.
Magpies tend to keep the same nest over the years unless it is destroyed in a storm or other extreme circumstances. But Vicky has changed her nest quite often.
The most remarkable time was when a few years ago she swapped nests with a crow. The crows nests are bigger and stronger and she immediately got to work to line and soften the inside. The crow on the other hand lost no time in reinforcing Vicky's old nest and making it more
A couple of years passed and we had moved to another farm, when Darren came home with a baby crow that he had found on the road.
In this picture 
