A Gardeners Forum Forums Members History Forum Life 2007 Some critter is stealing our soap!

I enjoyed this thread.

Linny,
Cool Beans!!! Good to know you have clean crows in Florida!!!
It's been fun...

This has been a fun story to follow.
Hate to see it end, but glad there was a solution.

Well that explains why there were no tracks on the floor!

Oh those wacky crows. When I was a baby we had a pet crow, Mr. Caw-Caw, who would fly down and steal the pacifier right out of my mouth! From the very start I was always involved with birds and crows are one of my favorites!

Thornius, what a great mental image I get from that story of the pacifer and the crow. I wish it could have been video taped. Was it by any chance? Since I found out it was a crow, I looked up information on them. I had no idea you could actually tame them, but they truly are intelligent creatures. Who knew?

A good portion of a tree on our property came down during a thunderstorm several years ago. It happened to be the highest tree on the property and the one used by crows as a roost.

One cannot imagine the treasure in that fallen tree cavity. The knob to our lawnmower that kept the handle locked in place that we had looked for over two seasons, key, coins, fork, seed package, tinsel, marbles, foil. Now, whenever something is missing outside, we run in the yard, look up and yell (with mouth covered of course) "drop it crows".

On a sad note crows are now few in our area as they are dying off from a bird disease. The same one killing blue jays. Bird info states crows keep an area clean of debris. Guess we'll find out first hand if that is true.

Dang it herbalyn. Your story made me laugh, then it made me sad. Great sense of humor there with the "Drop it crows"! That made me laugh. It saddens me to hear they are dying off along with the Blue jays. I guess you sure will find out first hand if the debris is being "policed" by the crows. I'm sure that you, as well as I, would rather be missing things than to know things are not missing because the crows are dying. It's another one of those bitter-sweet things in life huh? Thanks for the story though. I loved it.

Hi all
Thorny.. the crow taking your pacifier explains a lot

herbalyn... You write just great. I was rolling with laughter (until the illness) and your style is tops.

What are they doing about the dead birds. Is Cornell or somebody on the job? What bird disease?? Are they doing something to identify and isolate it? We don't want the crow and jay disease killing disease in Maryland... got more info?

So glad you found the solution Linny! Thoroughly enjoyed this thread!

I know there are some people that don't like crows...
.....but I am a crow lover.

Here's my crow...

He is a sweetheart...he has never stolen my soap!