It was a pretty exciting day. I got to see George and Gracie today. I even got a couple of seconds of video of Gracie this morning. She and George kept taking turns to go the feeding station and bringing the food back to the nest. I think the babies have started out of the nest. They were traveling in a different direction this morning and were very very chatty. So maybe the babies are able to explore now. I will keep a sharp eye out!!!!
I got to hang with George of a few minutes. I set my camera up with him in view. I swear he must hear the camera going. Maybe he can see himself in the lens. I have to edit that piece of video before I can show it to you, but wait til you see George react and look at the camera.
I do have two very short videos to show you. Yesterday I brought George out some food. Now you know that George loves to pick on the Geese. I was taping George and I caught the geese and George reacting to each other. It is so funny. You will have to watch the geese as George approaches and how George reacts to the geese as they go into their pen. It is never boring on the farm. I truly don't need a television when I have all sorts of drama, comedy, action, horror and a little sci fi right there at the farm
After I got this video things had calmed down quite a bit. I stayed busy on the farm and at one point I saw George on a new perch. I hadn't seen him use this post before.
He stayed here for quite a while. He has been hanging around the farm more and more lately. Its been fun to be walking in the field and all of a sudden hear the whoosh whoosh of some powerful wings go right over your head. I'm waiting for him to all of a sudden land on my shoulder. After I took these photos I guess he had to amuse himself. See the pile of wood just behind George. This is what he did at the pile.
Then he decided that he had played enough with the woodpile and left me.
The past couple of days George and Gracie have been switching on and off getting food and bringing back to the nest. What is really cool about this next video is that I caught George in the act of stashing a couple pieces of pork chop that I had on the roof. I haven't seen many videos of Raven's stashing food and if you notice you will see that at the end he actually catches me video taping him and then takes off. He movements are subtle, but once you learn his moves you will see what I see.
Sorry about the end of that video I was trying to follow him through but lost track of him.
George also the other day had to keep moving around and around the farm because a crow was following him. George would try to hide his food then either see or hear the crow. George would panic and take his food and try to stash it somewhere else or fake it. I have seen him fake stashing food within the past couple of days as well. That is something I haven't seen him do before until this spring. Gracie has blessed us more and more. She is still very timid, but she is sticking around a little bit more all the time.
Another thing George has had to contend with lately are all of the male Red Winged Blackbirds. They have several nests around the farm and since George is such a great egg thief he has to contend with all of the males grabbing at his tail feathers, chasing him around in the air or dive bombing him while he is in his perch. My goal is to capture it with on video or on a photograph. I love having little challenges like this that I have set up for myself. It keeps me thinking all the time. And next week I'm going to start my colored egg study and see what colors George will or will not take. So stay tuned!!!
Thanks for stopping by George: The Old Silo Raven! George and I appreciate it!!!
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