I'll bet you've never seen this before

What a great capture for you and the bird. Really been in the right place at the right time is so important. really enjoyed viewing.

This has to be the perfect timing shot, I mean 'how many times do we get the privilege of seeing a crow acting like an Osprey'?
Wonderful capture Damian.

Thanks everyone. I had had rather disappointing day at the hide before this but as soon as I got the shot I knew the wait had been worth it. Annoyingly about 10 minutes after I took this some guys turned up and started cutting the reeds in front of the hide and scared all the birds off!

You're right Damian. Thanks for sharing you nicely timed capture.

Thanks Reyno. My pleasure.

Cool capture; not your usual thought of a crow picking up a meal.

CROWs as PETS? Really?

busbyea wrote in post #2032069
CROWs as PETS? Really?

Absolutely. They make excellent pets, especially when you get one from a nest. Which isn't hard to do if you check nests a lot. Sooner or later, one will get pushed out.

My first one was kept outside and would wait for me on the porch in the morning, then ride my shoulder the block to the school bus stop. When the bus came, he'd fly back home, then in the afternoon, be waiting for me when I got off the bus.

The next two I had were kept inside in parrot cages, at night. When you raise them hand fed, they don't know how to hunt or scavenge for food, and probably wouldn't know what do do with it if they found any. You have to feed them. They become part of the family, like any parrot would. And, they learn to talk too.

canonloader wrote in post #2032126
Absolutely. They make excellent pets, especially when you get one from a nest. Which isn't hard to do if you check nests a lot. Sooner or later, one will get pushed out.

My first one was kept outside and would wait for me on the porch in the morning, then ride my shoulder the block to the school bus stop. When the bus came, he'd fly back home, then in the afternoon, be waiting for me when I got off the bus.

The next two I had were kept inside in parrot cages, at night. When you raise them hand fed, they don't know how to hunt or scavenge for food, and probably wouldn't know what do do with it if they found any. You have to feed them. They become part of the family, like any parrot would. And, they learn to talk too.

That's amazing; I wasn't aware that crows could be tamed.

Not only crows. Robins and Blackbirds too. Sparrows can be tamed right from the wild by feeding them every day at the same time, and everyone knows about park pigeons.

Nice capture, saw a grey heron struggling with a eel yesterday but I have never seen a crow with a flounder.

Thanks guys. I think the crow my dad had was one that had fallen from the nest. I'm sure if left alone it would have been OK but he picked it up and fed it and it became tame. Very intelligent.

Nice catch by you and the bird

Thanks - timing is everything!