Each morning, just as it is starting to get light, there is a loud racket in the trees behind our house. Loud Caws and grumblings and answers and murmurings, etc...for a good 10 minutes. I went outside one morning to see what was going on (this has happened for the last month or so), and watched ( I counted) 27 crows fly from one tree to another, "yelling" all the way.
I looked it up on the computer and found out that the American crow is a common but very smart bird. If you have a group of them, they are called "A Murder of Crows"....Apt name for them. Maybe the noise and grouping in the morning is their "coffee break", where they sit around and decide who to "murder' that day....whether there are any dead guys around that need picking...(eww) or who to annoy, etc...just a thought!!
I also found out that if you have a group of Emus, it is called a Mob....yes, I can see that, too!
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Okay, for a second there I thought you were going to say that you went outside one morning ... and found a body (or something scary like that). I'm actually relieved that it was just the crows. :)
Yeah, that title made me little nervous too. A murder of crows, eh? Interesting...
I understand that crows are traditionally associated with vampires. You are in the right area....just saying.
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