Saturday, January 6, 2024

The Wise Woman calls crows

 The Wise Woman, knowing I’m interested in crows, bought a bag of unshelled peanuts and a crow call. 

She auditioned for me.

I told her she was doing just fine.

She took her show outside to a live audience.

Within seconds, I heard the crow version of “The Hallelujah Chorus.” Three crows can sound like a choir, but I counted seven from my upstairs window, with more coming in.

The Wise Woman’s version of a crow in distress was convincing — to a red-tail hawk. The hawk arrived, seeking an easy kill. Crows from all over mobbed it.

No comments:

Post a Comment

Training and self-improvement

  In 1958, Gary Snyder gave American readers an account of a week of intensive Zen training at the great temple in Kyoto. Students went thro...