Photos from Cody Julie Davis
I recently came upon a rather precarious scene, flushed up about 15 Crows and as I drew closer an Owl shot up out of the tall grass and landed in a nearby tree. I’m assuming the Crows had it cornered and were beating it up. The Owl stretched and tried to dry out, and upon taking off for the trees a few Crows were back after it. I was thinking maybe this was a juvenile and it exposed itself too much and the Crows took advantage. I hope things worked out!
The crows are just looking out for their own families. Owls will gladly put other birds on the menu, but that is their nature. The crows are smart enough to know it.
If you knew a serial killer lived on your block, I’m sure you would not be thrilled, no matter how cool they looked or if they had many other awesome qualities like the owls.
Great Horned Owls are really terrifying creatures if you’re anything in their size range or smaller. That’s something hard for us to appreciate, since we’re not, but even something like a random ostrich or emu coming at you angrily would probably scare us, and they didn’t even want to eat us! 😄
Oh I’m totally not blaming the crows. Survival and all. But they also hold grudges and are smart. They even harass humans if they have a grudge. Or if you can befriend them there are cool things that can happen too.
Basically they’re human enough that I can like and hate them like I do humans.