PAINTINGS OF CROWS

A CONVERSATION IN HALIFAX

 This bronze statue sits atop a public building in Halifax near the waterfront. This is a 20" x 16" oil on canvas, framed $400.00 Crows have been classified as amongest the larger songbirds. People are surprised to find out that they are in fact songbirds. They're voices are not pretty but they do have a language that is universal and amongest the flock they have regional words. The warning word for cat or preditor is the same everywhere. The food call is the same everywhere and the young stay with the parants often well over a year and still call for thier mom and dad to feed them. I observed a crow and it's behaviour while camping in Mexico.
Crows behave in a similar way in the desert as they do in Victoria Park.  In Charlottetown the city fathers have spared no expense in trying to discourage the crows from roosting in the Brighton aera. Crows endure and have returned to roost dispite the efforts made to discourage them. They are an unstopable bird.

"STOP"
is an oil on canvas 16" x 20" framed $400.00  I painted this after seeing a crow perched on a stop sign being sassey. Crows are not shy. They are very territorial and I have seen them gang up on a stranger in the neighborhood. The family clan stays together sometimes for three or four years. The oldest bird in the clan I fed, became crippled so that he could not use his landing gear. He would land on my hand so I could feed him. His clan continued to come at a feeding time to my backdoor on Goodwill Avenue. There was more than three generations in my yard. Once I even observed one of the perched on the head of a fake owl on the roof of the nieghbors' house. Fake owls don't worry crows. I could spot old "Whitey" by the white feathers on his wing.
 When I lived on Spring Park Road, I fed a crow I named "Pegleg". He could walk on only one leg because the other was damaged and out of use. He was always the first to be fed but would cache his grub under a leaf pile or elsewhere and then would call the flock to feed after stashing some lunch for later.
KDM