I have to use photos from my archives—please forgive me. They have been hard to photograph lately
There is something you can’t help but love about Crows
They are so incredibly bright—studies have shown they are as bright as a nine-year old child.
They do have some very scavenger habits–
That I really don’t care for: like trying to peck out the eyes of newborn calves, poaching baby birds from other nests to feed their own, and devouring exhausted songbirds on their way home.
Still, there are other marvelous things about them—they talk to each other, and to you (if you talk to them) and clean up those ‘dead’ things so the earth stays fresh and clean.
Besides, I think they are just darn right “purdy”!
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
Life on a Colorado Farm 
I feel that way about magpies. But, I enjoy their happy talking. They are funny.
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We have hardly any Magpies here. We used to but not anymore.
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Lulu: “Ooh, our Dada wrote a book once where the bad guys were crows! Well, sort of, anyway … It was his second most popular one, after the one about the dragon.”
Java Bean: “Ayyy, maybe Dada needed to write a few more books about things with wings.”
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And Charlee, Chaplin, and Oona can help him—after all they really like BIRDS!!!
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We have ravens fly through from time to time. I like them. They aren’t near as obnoxious & awful as magpies. Every bird has a purpose, I guess.
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Yes they do. We have very, very few Magpies anymore
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We had a couple of large, beautiful, crows on our deck this morning.
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YAY!
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Smart, but naughty! We don’t have them in NZ ..
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Interesting. You have some things we have like pheasants. But no one thought to bring you a pair of crows 🙂
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We have magpies, and sparrows, blackbirds and thrush but no crows 😊
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We have no Thrush here that I know of
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