Jim Crow is a meat eater

Jim Crow had his first taste of meat yesterday, a left over portion of cat food.   He is an intelligent bird and recognised that it was food he liked straight away.   The grain and meal worms were forgotten as he swooped down and ate huge chunks at a time.  Where’s the camera when I need it!

Carrion crows are so called because they will eat any kind of dead meat and strip carcases of their flesh – a grisly sight in the ‘horrible history’ days when they would pick at humans hanging from gibbets!  Is this why some people don’t like them?   It’s just their nature after all and the protein helps them to survive.

We’ll give Jim a dish of meat every day now, he is still too thin and needs to develop his muscles so that he can fly properly.   At the moment he flutters from perch to perch, when he can swoop the length of the aviary it will be time to let him go.