Finally Some Decent Crow Shots

[Canoncan]

I know what you're going to say, that these are of two snapping turtles I spotted this morning. Well the crows have you fooled too. Maybe to the average eye these are turtles, but to someone with true ornithological training like me, I see right through their disguise.

Ready for flight

Look at those Crow beady eyes

His mate comes to swarm me, I feel like I am in a Hitchcock movie.

Look at the texture in that wing

Just as I turned around one took off in flight. This shot will come in handy. I asked my boss for a bigger quarterly bonus, he said when trutles fly. Won't he be surprised.

 

[Meysha]

Ha ha ha!!! :lmao: :lmao:

This thread is hilarious! love the captions love the photos! They're amazingly sharp! Just like their beaks!!

(I think all in all, this is the funniest day on TPF I've seen yet.)

 

[Chiller]

Canoncan man...just brilliant work my friend. You really had me ......I thought...this is it.. Great job on the flying crow. I saw one like that, years ago, when I was coming home from an all nighter. :+)
Excellent work!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for the laugh too..

 

[JonMikal]

ahhhh, the dreaded north american land crawler sometimes flying crow. i've seen these and are usually ones you can easily catch on film. discarded by most crow species, these reprobates keep to low vegetation and feed on trash and other slower moving unfortunates. the unhealthy diet enables their body to conform to other more familar animals, i.e, turtles, rats, and the like.

 

[Raymond J Barlow]

Very funny Canoncan! but the last one need a Superman cape! , and a gravestone somewhere!! hehehe., good stuff!

 

[Corry]

Bahahahahaha! You make me laugh! Great shots! That detail in the wing...are those parasites? Or part of the tur...um, crow?

 

[M @ k o]

LMAO!! Very creative. Cools pics ! ^5 on the last one. lol

 

[Canoncan]

Bahahahahaha! You make me laugh! Great shots! That detail in the wing...are those parasites? Or part of the tur...um, crow?

They looked like slugs. I thought the first one was stuck at the side of the road, as she struggled to move. I ran to the car to grab something to pick her up in, as I lifted her I realized she had dug a hole and was laying eggs. I quickly put her down, so no egg photos, then the second one started to cross the road. I stood there for 30 minutes to make sure he did not get squashed, and he made it accross to his mate.
Thanks for the comments, hope you all enjoyed the humour.

 

[photo gal]

Hee hee!! You are too funny Canoncan!! Great job! and thanks so much for the good laugh!! : )

 

[aprilraven]

canoncan....your the funniest thing....these are really great....the hitchcock reference made me bust out laughing....just cool as he**.....ok..am i the only one willing to ask what in the heck ornithological training is??? i couldnt even read it ..much less try to say it.....you gotta give...is that the study of turtles??(is that not shellshocked-gludious maximous??) or the study of crows.(wait thats, blackimus-featherupitus....)..maybe the study of ignorant southern chicks that question everything....?
(nope sorry, thats rebelignoramous training... my bad...)

so give... whats the word mean...?

 

[Canoncan]

canoncan....your the funniest thing....these are really great....the hitchcock reference made me bust out laughing....just cool as he**.....ok..am i the only one willing to ask what in the heck ornithological training is??? i couldnt even read it ..much less try to say it.....you gotta give...is that the study of turtles??(is that not shellshocked-gludious maximous??) or the study of crows.(wait thats, blackimus-featherupitus....)..maybe the study of ignorant southern chicks that question everything....?
(nope sorry, thats rebelignoramous training... my bad...)

so give... whats the word mean...?

Ornithology is the study of birds. An ornithologist is usually a biologist who is an expert on birds. A bird scientist so to speak. Thanks for the compliments.

 

[Ihaveaquestion]

That was awesome!

 

[terri]

Nutter. Funny stuff!!!

 

[surfingfireman]

By the way those "slugs" were leeches, waiting to hitch a ride back to the water I am sure.

 

[LaFoto]

Nutter. Funny stuff!!!

Eh? Terri? What more can one say, hm?

But as always with Canoncan's photos, even those of the CROWS (--erm---) are perfect. Mostly so his crow-in-flight. They move a lot slower, these crows do, than ducks in flight, I guess. So easier to capture in a photo?