Black the crow learns to bathe.

It has been almost one month since I took on the task of feeding an abandoned baby crow. A huge task involving feeding every hour, teaching him to be afraid of the cat, and keeping the rest of his family close by with food for them all. His flying abilities improve as his tail feathers grow out, but it still has another inch of growth before he has complete flight control.

He now spends all his time with his crow family forcing me to call the whole family in to feed him. Blackie is indistinguishable from his siblings until he flies down to me. I still feed him every 1 1/2 - 2 hours during daylight hours but he takes 1/2 his food off the ground and only wants spoon feeding when really hungry.

This video was taken about a week ago at Blackie's first bath. He has learned to drink and play in the lasagna pan when hot but he must now be learning to bathe elsewhere with his family.




And in a tree:

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