For the past two days I have seen a young crow with white feathers on both wings. He is one of our local birds that is right up the road from my house and 100 yards form one of my blinds. I will be interested to see if he stays around this summer and fall. This particular family group feeds on the road side constantly so I see them each day on my way to work. This crow is not as fast as the others and is still a little clumsy. I hope he makes it.
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"If money can fix it, it ain't broke" The great theologian and my crow hunting partner AW.
Being miss-marked he's a "sittin duck" for being killed by an owl or any hawk that preys on crows. I see one a 1/2 mile from the house this past spring that was miss-marked, the last inch & a half of it's tail was white. It was a young bird and was eating garbage over by the 7-11 convenience store's dumpster. That was the only time I see it and I go down there a couple times a day. I have about 75 white racing homers I use for doing dove releases with. I have a few dark homers that I fly for pleasure. When ever I have a cooper hawk or a perrigrine falcon go after my birds it the odd ball dark bird they grab. I have six dark homers in with my seventy-five white's. Just like people whon shoot wild pigeons, if there is a white one, a red one that stands out they always take the odd balls out first.
I watched him for a few days and then never saw it again. It was a young bird so it may not have made it or it could have molted. Who knows. Oh well, someday we will get one.
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"If money can fix it, it ain't broke" The great theologian and my crow hunting partner AW.
