If you've been visiting my blog for very long, I'm sure you will remember the saga of Henrietta.
She has returned to her rightful place -- outside our den window, looking as perky as ever.
Sorry, she is my replacement for Henrietta, because Bailey and I both missed her. She had to wait until the rainy season was over before I could put her outside.
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Now we have the saga of the Crow, "Never More". He arrived on our patio last Thursday, making a lot of noise and talking to himself. He really did sound like a human talking -- among other things.
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I decided to tolerate him. He reminded me of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven"
"Quoth the Raven 'Never more'"
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I have exchanged my camera with my husband's Canon Power Shot A560, so I was very happy to get this close-up. But how close was I? About three feet! However I still have a shaky hand so some of my photos are not as sharp as I would like them to be. This crow (not a Raven, I believe, as I was taught that Ravens have shaggy legs and crow's legs are smooth) has taken a decided liking to our patio.
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First he pulled out this stone from a basket of African Violets we had been given for Easter.
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Then he dropped it in this Peter Rabbit pottery watering can. After that he took it out again and tried to make off with the whole Peter Rabbit pot.
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At that point I chased him off.
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He came back. Next he tried to pick up this rock in his beak. We have it on a little table to use for holding down papers when we are sitting out there.
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Then he went for the rope door mat. I chased him off of that.
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Then he started pecking at the rubber stripping on the patio windows!!
Not a good photo, but I had to take it through the window.
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Then he knocked the stone off the other little table and almost got this one in his beak.
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Then he started on the Parade Magazine from the Sunday newspaper. I had gone outside to read the paper in peace and quiet!
He began to rip this up, so I chased him away again.
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Back he came!
Finally, when I saw him making for the telephone I got out the hose.
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He did eye me a couple of times and I think he was looking at my sweater! Since there was nothing else he could attack except me, I decided to call it quits.!
I don't know if he would have attacked me, but he was very close and that beak looks lethal. He was getting braver and closer by the minute.
So ends this saga -- for now.