The Boss

[colinb]

I'm assuming this is one of the crow family members but boy did he/she insist on respect from every other bird around, throw a few nuts on the floor and no-one went near until The Boss and her/his partner left. 

 

 

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Nikon D7000 nikkor 55-300mm @ Fuerteventura/Canarys

 

[fuzzyedges]

Full marks there

The first one grabs my attention lovelly

[Phil]

Tis a smashing set but with the inclusion of the rock #1 gets my vote

[colinb]

Cheers guys, I was hoping he/she might take to flight in the last one and I was down on the floor shooting up. Darn bird turned around and flew off behind the rock

[Kobione]

Darn bird turned around and flew off behind the rock

 

Isn't that just the way, Colin!!

 

Nice set anyway, no 1 for me too - really looks like he's 'King of the Heap'!!

[NannyFerret]

Lovely capture.
A lot of people don't like them, but they look lovely with their glossy black feathers.

[ChrisLumix]

I'd say you must be well 'chuffed' with those, but I think you're right - crow family...

[KateW]

Lovely set, with a nice sheen on the feathers.

[FUJI]

A  scanned pic and memories from over fifteen years ago:

 

Your post of the ....BOSS.....Reminded me of the Rook? I nurtured from baby fledgling to a mature bird.............My son is a tree surgeon, he often has to rescue downed nests after gales have brought down supporting branches, there were two chicks but only this one survived:

 

After the initial three or four weeks of almost round the clock feeding with cat food, our nce little chick quickly became a very cheeky, intelligent and very active member of the family.........

 

Rookie, as my son's called him, used to love a game of ...Tug-Of-War pulling on a matchstick held in the fingers.......enjoyed teasing our (then) large Siamese type cat by pulling his tail then hopping or flying off squawking with rook or crow laughter.............Got in to great trouble when more adventourus flew into a neighbor's bedroom window and terified her, I had to go to the rescue, then apologise.........HIs other favourite game, was to steal bitsof the wooden toys from my garden workbench, he used to fly up to the gutters with them...........He use to delight in sitting on shoulders, riffling through your hair, as if preening his feathers..........The last we saw of Rookie was when we spotted him chasing a lit cigarete end around on the road; after this he flew of to rejoin his wild mates who kept calling him.

 

The next spring, we had to deal with a blocked rainwater spout...................Guess what?.......We discovered that it was blocked by, bits of wooden toys, two bunches of car-keys and a couple of spoons and silver paper........Neighbours were delighted to get their keys back after they vanished mysteriously:

 

A bit of a rebel....yes....but great fun, everyone in the immediate vicinity loved him, except for the lady the terified:

 

FUJI

 

(With acknowledgements to the original local photographer)

[colinb]

A nice story Fuji and you could well be right about this being a Rook as I have very little knowledge about all but the most common of birds. This one was not at all bothered about people and seems quite happy to put up with me snapping away.

[annie]

shot one is beautiful...but I love the whole set.

 

funny comical birds the members of the corvidae family.

[colinb]

shot one is beautiful...but I love the whole set.

 

funny comical birds the members of the corvidae family.

 

 

thank you Annie - nice to see you posting again too