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Out of the Ordinary

Month: May 2013

  • Crow and newspaper

    I was sitting on  a bench in the parkette beside the library enjoying an orange and the sun when a crow landed on the bench not far from me and began to pay attention to a newspaper that someone had left there.

    In the ten or so seconds before I got enough past my astonishment/amusment to dig out my camera and start recording, the bird had half unfolded the paper so that it opened against the back of the bench – in a readable position –  but then it fell forward onto the bird's head.  Crow ducked from beneath the paper and  I caught on camera what followed.   I could imagine the script going something like this:

    "Extra!  Extra! Read all about it!  Caw!  Caw!!  Caw!!! …. Well, darn.  Just when I get something to really 'crow about' there's no one around to listen."  

    Here's the   video  link.