Nice video. Charming creatures. Nice to see how the birds collect small pebbles. They don't have teeths and need to 'chew' the food in their muscled stomachs.
Hello pica pica life, nice to read your comment. (What happened to Sweetie made me very sad. I couldn't watch the video.) You are right about the swallowing of small stones, which can be found in their pellets. But why is the magpie collecting a beak full of pebbles, while the crow is watching? Maybe the magpie imitates the crow that is carrying food in its beak, which can be seen at 6:32. (The filled beak of the crow is more clearly visible in the very shaky part of the video that I had to cut away.) In the last scene the crow is hiding a pebble, as if stashing food. I have the impression of two kids playing games and pretending to do serious things. Of course I don't know if my interpretation is correct. In any case, I had a lot of fun watching the charming creatures.
@@kestrelsandcrows6871 We think you are absolutely right about the playing. We have also seen other young animals playing with each other. It seems like young animals play cross species more often. When they become adults, it usually stops. Corvids are very playful, maybe due to their intelligence. Yes, what happened to Sweetie was very sad and unfortunate. We were really hoping for her and Guy, and that they would nest again in 'our' nest this year.
Oh my god, so cute the little baby crow and he knows how to hold a nut and crack it. But I don't think they can crack walnuts. I crack them with a big walnut cracker, so it is half open, so they can hide them for later.
Thank you for your nice comment. I also offered walnuts, half cracked. But crows and magpies know how to crack walnuts. They fly up high and drop the walnuts from above. The walnuts hit on the ground and crack open. My local crows take peanuts first. The magpies have different preferences and take cashew nuts first. Unfortunately the crows did not visit for months now. As far as I know they did not have offspring in 2023. I hope to see them again. Since a couple of days I see a pair of crows visiting the old nest from 2022. So far I could not recognize if it is the same pair.
@@kestrelsandcrows6871 That's a pity, they did not come. I never give peanuts because I found out they are toxic. Dr. Eric Berg explains why here,www.youtube: com/watch?v=ejACsiPCgak. I had budgies 1/3 of my life as a child and I knew birds are very sensitive to chemicals. I buy organic walnuts cheaply from a local person, many kilos and ordinary hemp and sunflower seeds and organic or biodynamic bread corn that I soak, but this I do very seldom. It is maybe a bit too expensive. I also never give them salty things or white non organic bread. I saw now magpies with hanging wings and this comes from the bread. I see the crows hold on to the nut and crack it open, but if I don't open it a bit, they would probably have to drop it from high. Maybe I should give them a few in the end to hide.
