Crows

11/25/09

I took this photo in Point Reyes Station a few days before Thanksgiving. It was a foggy morning. I noticed a school bus coming up the hill and children at the elementary school and I felt good, like I was playing hooky since my school was already out for vacation. Weekdays are always nicer to have off when everyone else is still working, when I can move slowly and everyone else around me is moving fast. 

These crows were raising a racket on these lines around the corner from where we were staying. Crows are very interesting birds with a lot of different sounds and they have great acrobatics. You may have seen them flip upside down in flight. I often see a crow being chased off by two or three small birds. It always seems to lumber through the air while the little ones frantically flap, poke and squeek it along. Perhaps the crow has come too close to their nest or stolen an egg.