Every day we share a single photo from our Flickr Pool shot by one of our faithful and talented readers (that’s you!).
Usually when I visit the pool, I first find a photo and then try to find my way into it. What's my angle? How do I weave a post around a particular photo? Some days I visit the pool and it takes me an instant to find a photo and the words just flow. Today is just such a day.
About a year and a half ago we moved from North Burnaby to near BCIT in Burnaby (I still commute to Vancouver every day - just so I never forget how awesome it is). And since we moved here, I have become completely fascinated by the daily evening migration of crows to the Still Creek area. Through various places I've lived in Vancouver I've been aware of them, but I'm really close to their nighttime home now - it's one of the last gathering places before they rest for the night. The sound is deafening when they briefly roost in the trees that give me shade on hot summer days.
And I've visited them at dusk down in the Still Creek area, the same area where wozza604 went to get his own photograph of The Crows.
Long a symbol of East Van, crows are equal parts intelligent, social and mysterious. Studies have shown that not only can they use tools to procure food, but some have been observed to actually make their own tools. And since they also seem to be able to recognize individual humans by their facial features, it can be a little creepy when you are standing in the middle of a road, just yourself and your camera, amongst thousands of noisy crows.
But well worth it.
