Canada's Crow from Hell!

[Raymond J Barlow]

I drive by a grave yard everyday, It's about 1 km from my house.. I was out this am for coffee, and since it was a beautiful morning, I decided to take a drive through and see if I could catch some kind of feathered creature near a grave stone.. 20 seconds into my ride I came upon this crow.. like he was waiting for me.. he smiled, and chuckled a bit, and told me Jon and Chiller will hate me for this, but he wanted some exposure anyway.

this is just the begining of TPF's crow hunt.. I hope we can carry it on and see what we all can come up with.. I just can't believe how lucky I was!!

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p.s. Jon, daisy thinks you are good looking too!! you better watch out! lol

 

[JonMikal]

i don't see a crow...chiller, you see a crow?

 

[Raymond J Barlow]

o ya, that's not a crow, it's a Canadian pigeon!

 

[Canoncan]

We have a leader so far, a last minute entry has zoomed into the lead. Good colour in that one shot. You can really see the blue. That pic is worth crowing about.

 

[Chiller]

I think it's a crow, unless it is a seagull in a crows costume. But this crow sure puts the "grim" in Grimsby eh?
Great shots Raymond :thumbup: ...ya wanna send this guy our way now. ? Got myself a brand new bird feeder at home....with some new seed :scratch:

 

[JonMikal]

We have a leader so far, a last minute entry has zoomed into the lead. Good colour in that one shot. You can really see the blue. That pic is worth crowing about.

uh oh, looks like i better step it up a notch! Linda, i won't be home for dinner!

 

[LaFoto]

Serious congratulations, Raymond!!!!

OF COURSE, JonMikal can't see a crow here.
With all these attempts to capture a crow on a tombstone, he has become crow-blind. Well, not quite: actually, he sees them everywhere, but the big black birds that go caw-caw-caw all the time (and that so handsomely settle on a TOMBSTONE, no less, in Grimsby, Ontario) are bears to him and flying rats and whatnot.

So don't care about him...

These are some nice shots and I am more and more seriously planning to go on a trip into Hamburg to the big and old cemetery in Ohlsdorf - a cemetery as large as an entire quarter of town. There must then be one or the other crow....!

 

[Chiller]

Hmm...Looks like I had better step it up too. Grimsby is not far from my place. Maybe I will hunt down the Grimsby Crow layball: .

 

[Raymond J Barlow]

Lol!! Make sure you call em before you come, and i will take you to my lucky spot! i will pay a visit there every am, and see if these crows have a routine visit here.

I swear, I never spent 10 seconds looking for a crow before this morning.. and this one just about broke my windshield! There were 2 of them, the second was up high in a tree.. I chased them a bit, but they hiked off to some other graveyard I guess.

 

[Big Mike]

I have some crows around my house that I wanted to shoot...but not with my camera :X

The darn things moved in a few weeks ago and have chased off all of the other birds...and they just won't shut up. Saturday was the first day in weeks that I could have slept in...but they woke me up at 5:00 am.

I used to hear many different & lovely bird songs in the morning...now it's just SQUAWK SQUAWK SQUAWK SQUAWK

 

[mentos_007]

I see a crow on the 7th!!!!

 

[Armstror]

I have some crows around my house that I wanted to shoot...but not with my camera :X

The darn things moved in a few weeks ago and have chased off all of the other birds...and they just won't shut up. Saturday was the first day in weeks that I could have slept in...but they woke me up at 5:00 am.

I used to hear many different & lovely bird songs in the morning...now it's just SQUAWK SQUAWK SQUAWK SQUAWK

I feeeel your paaaaaain.

 

[Raymond J Barlow]

they are a nasty, crappy bird, and they do belong in graveyards.. underground!

 

[tr0gd0o0r]

I want an angel picking her nose on my grave

 

[JonMikal]

btw Raymond, what mm lens did you use for these?