Lol, looks like that corvid is having fun riding the slopes on his polo mint. !! thanks for sharing this link Mike. I remember a crow in our last garden body-boarding over the icy layer of snow as if it was having a body scrub lol

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Regards, Hazel

I recall, a number of years ago, reading in a local, Bristol newspaper a piece (by a respected ornithologist) describing Ravens tobogganing on their backs down a snowy roof. First one bird, which then sought out and taught another. Her call: because it's fun. No biological advantage to be gained.

Corvids: both intelligent and ingenious.

But this one may be a very, very special case Mike.

All the best -

Dave

This was included in Chris Packham's Natures Weirdest Events a few years back.

Link here www.bbc.co.uk/.../p05rkc46

In reply to rspbailey:

Must be good then. And weird.

:-)

Dave

In reply to Dave - CH:

As I reached the end of that Lovely video, this one popped up, love how they never forget, he comes back to the frozen one at the end.

www.youtube.com/watch

In reply to SunnyKate2:

Some kind of weird biological imperative going on there.
A bird wouldn't do that just because it's... fun.

;-)

Cool ;-)

(Pardon the Scottish Accent)

In reply to HAZY:

HAZY said:
Lol, looks like that corvid is having fun riding the slopes on his polo mint. !! thanks for sharing this link Mike. I remember a crow in our last garden body-boarding over the icy layer of snow as if it was having a body scrub lol

As we know, crows are very intelligent birds and i find it fascinating watching the juvenile crows in our garden, how they explore and play with things.

Mike

Flickr Peak Rambler

In reply to rspbailey:

rspbailey said:
This was included in Chris Packham's Natures Weirdest Events a few years back.

Link here www.bbc.co.uk/.../p05rkc46

The quality of the video suggested it wasn't a fairly recent one, but still worth a share to bring smiles to faces and show how ingenious crows can be.

Mike

Flickr Peak Rambler

In reply to SunnyKate2:

SunnyKate2 said:
As I reached the end of that Lovely video, this one popped up, love how they never forget, he comes back to the frozen one at the end.

www.youtube.com/watch

Crows really are fascinating birds to watch.

Mike

Flickr Peak Rambler

Ingenuity or Integlent! A Snowboarding Crow