Fishing Crows.

I've witnessed this twice now in two different venues, one in Cornwall and one in wiltshire, Crows catching fish!! Again yesterday i watched a couple of crows sitting on low branches looking at the water, then fly down and grab a small fish with there claws, is this normal?, i've never seen it happen before, has anybody else seen this happen? Maybe food is getting scarce and they're picking up on other birds practices that normally prey on fish, weird!!

well I never pl... ive not seen it before, so like you would like to know if anyone else has..

Never seen that before PL but will have to keep my eyes open in future.

Had a word with DS on the phone tonight, he'd heard some one else say the same thing, getting clever these birds.

would like to know why they do it tho, is there anywhere or anyone offical we could ask??

And now there is a famous Blackbird somewhere in the South West area.It mimics the sound of ambulance and police car sirens.
Was on the news.

ahh yes I did see that...lol, so do you think the crow is mimicking the heron?? lol

that straight up TR? or you taking the michael.

I was going to let DS mention this one, but he's at mansells for the weekend, he saw on the news a heron pinching slices of bread from a campsite, taking it to the camp pond, breaking of bits, dropping it in the water and using it to attract the fish, in other words bait, whats happening?? are we about to see a real life "The Birds" like Hitchcocks film.

pondlife wrote:

that straight up TR? or you taking the michael.

Straight up PL,was on West Tonight News.

Now when have you known me take the michael?

Ermmm!!, yep all the time no i didn't see it TR. I know this sounds a bit far fetched, but we had a bird over the lake that sounded like a bite alarm, haven't heard it recently but with the amount of anglers alarms over there we might here it again.

Well it won't be copying my alarms PL thats for sure

ha ha, nor mine, not over there anyway, i got a job to remember the last time mine made a noise at that place

pmsl tr, it would be funny tho, if the bird did a alarm sound , and you ignored it ..... and it turned out to be your alarms really lol, thus (blanking again) wicked ..

It is true about the blackbird,i saw it on the news as well.

We'll be getting sparrows opening chip shops soon.

PL, are you sure you have not been drinking a bunch while you are fishing??LOL