Sometimes nature seems harsh and hard….
The crow is waiting to snatch one of the newly hatched baby birds
I’m with the smaller birds…the crow can just go eat something dead and leave thier young alone.
Yesterday I found were a porcupine lost his life. The fight was hard and long…quills were everywhere. Sort of sad really.
But that is the law of the natural world.
Linda
Life on a Colorado Farm 
I justr do not like crows…circle of life and all is great…but I can just say I don’t like them.
At first I thought that was an eagle in the tree….they do about the same thing and I love eagles….hmmmm
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When the crows are nesting, I put out cheap dry cat food for them to eat and feed their own babies. That little extra bit of protein seems to keep them and the jays away from other birds’ babies. I don’t have crows at home, but there are a pair that hang out in the parking lot at work. They know my car.
What kind of predator kills porcupines? They seem invincible to me.
The only thing we have that’s totally out of control is raccoons. I think the wildlife rescue people have been relocating them into our area. City raccoons do not fare well out here where people will shoot them if they’re caught in a chicken pen. I think they need to set up feeding stations in town for the raccoons and dispense food laced with birth control medication. This week there are 4 dead raccoons on the highway within 5 miles.
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I am with you. I root for the little guys every time.
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Who would tangle with a porcupine? Always curious. Gayle
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Wooooo—that porcupine did lose that battle, didn’t he????? Yipes—nature at its best…. I guess we all would do what we had to do in order to get food… The critters just do the best they can.
Hugs,
Betsy
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Isn’t it surprising how little nesting birds have absolutely no fear when it comes to defending their family against predators? I’ve been buzzed and dive bombed by all kinds of winged creatures when I wandered too close. I watch the little ones fiercely take on hawks and crows seemingly without a thought of danger to themselves. Still, without something to keep populations in check Nature will visit with disease or drought to keep the balance. The whole circle is miraculous. But I am sad for the porcupine.
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Oh my! Whatever tangled with that porcupine probably was hurting!
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Nature is hard sometimes isn’t it…..but that’s life. Then you look at flowers and see a positive side 🙂
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Nature can be cruel but i worry about how ‘man’ is upsetting the natural ecology of the world. What would eat a porcupine?
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Linda, dare I say I do like the crow and I love your photo, something eerie and primitive about it. I hope summer has found you!
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Hi Linda, Crows are nasty nest robbers. Might have been a Eagle that killed the porkypine..although those quills are nasty..nasty:(
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WOW!!! Thats a whole lot of quills. Hope your pets stayed away from them unlike our dog didnt do last summer. I think he regretted that decision as he did not like the removal process.
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Amazing photo Linda of the ‘porcupine quills ‘ – maybe it was just another porcupine male protecting
his territory? Obviously not your dogs as they would have some injuries – maybe one of those pesky
coyotes? If so, it will be a very sore coyote.
As for that wretched crow – I think I would have had out a gun to shoot the mongrel. I hate them
for what they do to new born lambs and even calves if possible when the cow births during the day
and is unable to get up quickly enough to care for the calf – same applies to the ewe. The mongrels
peck out the eyes – I hope the person who commented that he/she likes crows will think about that?
Obviously the person who said that was not a country person! Sorry about the delayed comment, I just
wanted to see what others would write.
Yes, “Sometimes nature seems harsh and hard”
I draw the line at CROWS!
Cheers on another informative post of life on a ranch in Colorado
Colin (HB)
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