<html><body><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>Studies of birds that stash show they have amazing memories and can relocate hundreds of the stashed items (in some cases even more). But then they cover it with leaves. Before the snow I saw a blue carefully put an acorn on the ground, and then carefully cover it with four or five dried oak and maple leaves. Good luck on relocating that one day given the wind, turkeys, squirrels and deer all rendering many hiding places on the ground totally useless.</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>Don Grussing</div><div>Minnetonka</div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr" data-marker="__DIVIDER__"><div data-marker="__HEADERS__"><b>From: </b>"mnbird" <mnbird@lists.mnbird.net><br><b>To: </b>"Brian and Cindy Drill" <bcdrill@charter.net><br><b>Cc: </b>"mnbird" <mnbird@lists.mnbird.net>, "Stephen Hedman" <shedman@d.umn.edu><br><b>Sent: </b>Saturday, October 24, 2020 6:13:01 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [Mnbird] Crow Behavior<br></div><br><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Hi Cindy,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">This is usual behavior for all members of the Corvidae family
which includes jays and crows. For
whatever reason known only to themselves, they are great stashers. I have observed crows doing this same type of
hiding in my yard though it was with peanuts.
How they eventually find things, if indeed they do, is beyond me. I do put out peanuts on my deck and quickly
jays and crows descend to grab one or two and fly off to either bury them or tuck
them in some nook or cranny. Sometimes
they will bury the peanuts in the ground and cover their stash with leaves or whatever.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Amazing family of birds.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Steve</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">St. Louis County</p></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Oct 24, 2020 at 3:20 PM Brian and Cindy Drill via Mnbird <<a href="mailto:mnbird@lists.mnbird.net" target="_blank">mnbird@lists.mnbird.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Good afternoon--<br>
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While I have certainly seen crows interacting enough in my neighborhood, <br>
I witnessed something this afternoon I do not recall seeing before. A <br>
crow dropped into my front yard with something in its beak (we have a <br>
neighbor who apparently tosses all old bread out for the birds, I have <br>
had squirrels stash entire hot dog buns in the carport rafters). The <br>
crow set the object down on the ground, then pounded into the soil with <br>
its bill until it had made a hole. It then placed its item into the <br>
hole, tucking it in a time or two, and then walked around in a small <br>
area collecting leaves off the ground and returning to conceal its <br>
larder with the leaves. It was quite a show. Maybe I have to stop <br>
blaming squirrels for every random thing that pops up in my yard? Cindy <br>
in North Mankato<br>
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