We have a bunch of crows in our neighborhood that wake me up every morning. I’m not appreciating that fact right now because they usually start cawing about an hour or two before I intend to get up.
This has set me to paying attention to crows a bit. I’ve never really watched them much.
Not far from me is a McDonalds…the one that can never get the tea order correct.
I was sitting in the parking lot enjoying my items from the dollar menu…and lo! I spotted a Crow waiting for a french fry.
How do I know he was waiting for a french fry? Because I tossed one out the window and he immediately swooped down and flew off with it.
It suited my mind at the time to believe I had communicated with the Crow in some sort of mental stream of silent man-to-bird consciousness, discerning that he wanted a french fry. And thus I gave to the Crow what he so longed after, fulfilling my repressed feelings of wanting to commune with nature on a level that our Native American brethren must have commanded when they lived here alone on this continent, in the wilderness, centuries ago.
That of course is B.S.
Truth be told, I could have thrown a five pound chuck roast out the window and he would have tried to fly off with it as well. Crows will eat anything.
But hey…it makes for a good story doesn’t it?
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First, Don - excellent sketch. I love the perspective you used.
Second - you probably WERE communing with the crow. As obnoxious as they are - and they are - crows are understood by nature nerds to be among the most highly intelligent members of the feather family. They communicate very well, and learn how to play games. I hate to say it, but they’re, well, smart. This does not take anything away from them also being, well, LOUD. And though I hate to use the U-word against anything in nature, they are also, um, ugly.
Thanks Karen:-)
Well, perhaps I WAS in communication with the crow eh?
I wonder if I can mentally communicate to the one’s in my back yard each morning to CHILL OUT!
perhaps you should leave a nicely written note, on parchment. the crows will be happy that you’re respecting their intelligence, and go quietly.
If that works you have a million dollar solution there
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