Hooded crows are common round here and very entertaining. I took to offering them bits of old cheese, apple cores and the like, eventually settling on peanuts in their shell because they are inexpensive and handy. If the birds are hanging around, they come as soon as they see me raise my arm. If they’re some place else, it may take a while for them to latch onto the treat. Over the weeks, they have definitely become more relaxed in my presence.
These pictures are with a 210mm equivalent lens on my Sony Nex-6 on a tripod. The big problem with that is that it is not possible to do any framing in real time. Hence, two near misses.
Ideally, I should move the camera way over to the left, which would give me a better chance of catching some light on the bird’s eye, but that would be a lot harder to set up.
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