German Shepherds of the Bird World Our neighbor's two darling kittens have grown up to be lethal bird catchers, so keeping cats out ...

You may know from previous posts that I feed the small birds in our yard as well as the crow family, Bertram, Corvina, and Ned. What y...

I seem to have happened upon a kindred spirit, Kathleen A. Johnson, Two Crows Studio . She's done a number of crow paintings. I'm ab...

Crows teach each other who's who. As you know, I'm very interested in crows as pets, especially Bertram , Corvina, and their ba...

Update: There is now just one baby crow remaining out of the three, and he has been named Ned . I learned from watching the PBS video, A Mu...

Last week I spent a day digging out the rockery in front of our house, all the while serenaded by the loud squawks of one or more of Bertra...

Oh dear, oh dear, Kiro just ran a thing about how aggressive crows are, and people are making comments that the crows should be shot. Right...

Yesterday evening Bill and I were standing under the flowering European Bird cherry in our backyard, when our attention was drawn to a cacop...

A week or so ago, Bertram reappeared after an absence of five days. (You may remember my fretting that he'd been done in by a poisoned...

Bertram just landed on the wire outside the living room window and peered in. I had already put peanuts out early this morning, but I immedi...

Sunday evening, Bill spotted Bertram on the roof next door, eating a mouse. Crows aren't hunters, so I knew this was carrion, and start...

Since last fall Bertram has bravely swooshed down each morning and afternoon to retrieve the peanuts I set out for him, while his mate, Corv...

All this time I thought that Bill was sort of normal, but it turns out he's exactly like the rest of my family. Maybe that's why I ...

My sister Jenn loves to dress up her pets. She used to have tons of little Yorkies running around the house, and they would always be gettin...

Bertram is a very handsome crow that lives on our street with his wife, who is so shy that I still don't know her name. Each morning an...