The day was hot. Nearly one hundred degrees.
Two crows struck a voiceless pose on their shade perch by the creek.
June 21, 2012
As we turned to summer
Posted by Scott under Birds | Tags: american crow, heat wave, nature, northeast, pennsylvania, summer |[18] Comments
some little crum creek 
July 20, 2012 at 9:12 am
Almost ‘menacing’… the mood of the photo. Great capture!
July 20, 2012 at 4:51 pm
Thanks, Robin. Crows have that way of setting a mood, don’t they?
July 19, 2012 at 6:15 pm
LIke paper-cut silhouettes! Nice shot!
July 20, 2012 at 4:48 pm
Thanks, Jen. They were still as paper. I bet fiddling with the contrast & brightness & stuff might make a funky silhouette picture.
July 12, 2012 at 10:28 pm
The Bride loves to listen to crows talk. I on the other hand am slowly, very slowly coming around but when it gets too hot for crows to talk……not good whether you are a fan or not.
First time visiting so I have being noodling through your photos and the history of place. Very nice, very nice indeed.
July 13, 2012 at 5:26 pm
Thanks J-man. Glad you stopped by. I usually associate the crow calls with gray, but cooler, days of fall.
June 29, 2012 at 9:22 am
Love this one, what a pose by both of them – so lovely! 🙂
June 29, 2012 at 7:29 pm
Thank you Eve. It was indeed lovely to see the quieted crows pause for a considerable moment.
June 22, 2012 at 8:15 am
Same here in New Hampshire. We’ve broken records that have stood for 140 years. Too hot for man or beast.
June 22, 2012 at 9:10 am
The Philadelphia Inquirer says we hit 97 degrees; that’s 2 degrees from the record set in 1923. But it felt over 100. I wondered what sort of dramatic pose I’d assume without AC.
June 22, 2012 at 2:23 am
The ones in my backyard are definitely NOT voiceless. 😉
June 22, 2012 at 9:11 am
Ha! Usually not the case here either. In fact, it was their calls, just prior to their silence, that drew my attention.
June 21, 2012 at 10:28 pm
Great shot, the effect of silhouettes in gray scale. The heat does take a lot out of them.
June 22, 2012 at 9:17 am
Recent attempts to shoot crows in color haven’t turned out well. So I tried the black-and-white function…thought it might accentuate their dramatic pose. I really felt for them.
June 29, 2012 at 4:38 pm
You done good!! 🙂
June 29, 2012 at 7:24 pm
Thanks!
June 21, 2012 at 10:07 pm
Too hot here for the crows… all the birds a bit silent today. This is the beginning of the silent time when the parents are too busy foraging food for the fledglings that run after them all day long. That’s a great photo of crows, though. Looks like the one on the left is a fledgling.
June 22, 2012 at 9:18 am
Could be a fledgling. Pity the poor mother with mouths to feed on days like this.