Crow

Crow
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Yesterday Wendy and I saw a crow fly over the road carrying a twig while we were on the way to New Bern. If you know me, you know what that means. Crows are building nests. Sometimes they build dummy nests to confound me and predators. Did you know that you can shoot them any time of the year in every state of the US, but it's illegal to capture and raise one as a pet? Oh, by the way, they make great pets. If you get a baby crow and hand-feed it, it will stay with you for a while, maybe a summer. But like a summer romance it's over when autumn comes. He is smart enough to figure out that he's a crow and you're not. So he'll leave you to be with his own kind. You know, birds of a feather.