As chance would have it the odd calls returned this morning in much the same way they had the previous. Now with a hypothesis to test and an idea of what I was looking for I went out to check on the crows. At first it was about as difficult to interpret as the previous two times, but then I got a good look at the mouth of the crow sounding the odd call. A beautiful pinkish red marked the lining of the mouth of this bird showing that it was a juvenile. To add to that the eyes where still the milky blue-gray of a fledgling. All that tied with the calling could have been enough to conclude that this was begging behavior but I was lucky enough to catch the actual feeding it’s self.

Interestingly enough it looks like both the fledglings are quite adept at flying. I was surprised by this as I did not know they developed that ability this early in the year.