{"id":11673,"date":"2017-05-01T00:00:41","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T04:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/?p=11673"},"modified":"2020-11-05T21:09:05","modified_gmt":"2020-11-06T02:09:05","slug":"halloween-graffiti-and-stupid-fish-crows-at-union-st-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/?p=11673","title":{"rendered":"2020 – Halloween Graffiti (and Stupid Fish Crows) at Union St Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Ignore May 1, 2017 publish date – this was published on October 20, 2020)<\/span><\/p>\n

As far as I\u2019m concerned, fish crows are the dopiest birds ever. The literature will tell you otherwise, but I think we could do just fine without these fighting-over-garbage loudmouths.<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve written about their stupidity elsewhere on this blog, but lately, we\u2019ve been inundated with them.<\/span><\/p>\n

A few days ago, (it seemed like) hundreds of them were flying around my building and screaming their sounds-like somebody-stepped-on-a-duck squawk non-stop.<\/span><\/p>\n

This was the view – and sound (crank it up) – from my living room (you can hear a real crow at the 0:30 mark):<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0uvwkOHl_4E<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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I live on Union St in Hackensack. On the other end of the street – about a mile away – is Union St Park, which has two large walls that\u2019ve had organized graffiti on them for years. The artists are really talented and I enjoy shooting it.<\/span><\/p>\n

I haven\u2019t been there in ages, but I happened to pass by there today and decided to renew acquaintances with the art there.<\/span><\/p>\n

Wouldn\u2019t you know that the only other living beings in the small park were a herd of freakin\u2019 fish crows. They made fools of themselves on park benches and generally just flew around with beak-selected garbage and wallowed in the receptacles.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Classy bunch.<\/span><\/p>\n

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On to the stars of the show\u2026\u2026\u2026..<\/span><\/p>\n

I did a \u201cbest-of\u201d of one wall:<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u2026\u2026\u2026.and a photo stitch of the entire other wall (click twice to enlarge):<\/span><\/p>\n

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Something for the artists to crow about (groan)<\/em><\/span>, for sure.<\/span><\/p>\n

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(Ignore May 1, 2017 publish date – this was published on October 20, 2020) As far as I\u2019m concerned, fish crows are the dopiest birds ever. The literature will tell you otherwise, but I think we could do just fine without these fighting-over-garbage loudmouths. I\u2019ve written about their stupidity elsewhere on this blog, but lately, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11673"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11766,"href":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11673\/revisions\/11766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}