Corvid vs cat

[anon29537550]

You owe me a keyboard, damn it!

[Mangochin]

Tough to buy jeans with one.

[DukeTrout]

@Adrian_Hillier

Ravens are now becoming common, and magpies, jays, rooks, jackdaws and carrion crows are all very common now, the only other rare corvid being the chough, Cornwall’s county bird, which I’ve also yet to see.

I blame George RR Martin.

[SeamusAMurphy]

As a cat person, I’m betting short term corvid, long term cat.

[anon23281680]

I’m pretty confident the cat is playing. The angle of her ears, the tempo of her tail, the way she purposefully turns away, and the ostentatious grooming. She’s pretending she doesn’t see the bird. She only gets a little angry when the bird bites too hard. My guess is they know each other and this is a familiar game for them.

[anon73430903]

@Adrian_Hillier

It is a hooded crow, a sub-species that we don’t have here in England, but is common in Scotland and Ireland.

You occasionally get them on the Cumbrian coast. There is a planned attempt to reintroduce choughs at St Bees Head as well.

Hooded Crow

[vermes82]

Here’s one I saw today.

[GoatCheezInfrno]

@euansmith

I misread that as “corvus corone comix”; the underground comics crow.

Good old Arial, with its keming problems.

[euansmith]

The Devil makes work for idle hands crows to do.

[FGD135]