Carrion Crow
Corvus corone
They are not popular birds although I like them with their
glossy black feathers and frilly bloomers. Where I grew up,
farmers used to hang dead crows on their fences,
presumably as a warning to others of their kind as to what
would happen to them if they tried to eat any of their grain.
I am pretty sure the crows just laughed this off.
George Gascoigne a poet and MP in Elizabethan times
wrote of the crow:-
The carrion crow, that loathsome beast,
Which cries against the rain,
Both for her hue and for the rest
The devil resembleth plain.
Guess he didn't like them either!
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