You can read more about what the Bestiary† from the middle of the 13th Century had to say about crows at http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2016/2/crows
†Image from Bestiary MS Bodley 764. Page 43. “Bestiary being an English version of the Bodleian Library, Oxford M.S. Bodley 764 with all the original miniatures reproduced in Facsimile. Translated and introduced by Richard Barber. The Boydell Press. Woodrifge. 1999”
You can see all three photos and more at http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2016/1/sunflower-with-a-mohawk
Once upon a day before Christmas http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/12/the-day-before-christmas-t-8-days
Sandhill cranes flying down the Rio Grande. http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/11/cranes-after-sundown
More wild and fun special shapes balloons http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/10/udderly-ridiculous
The balloons and I are all wet http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/10/splash-down
Backlighting in the cottonwood forest http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/10/backlit-bosque
Another bloody moonrise: http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/9/blood-moon-rising
After fording the shallows of the west fork of the Rio Grande to one of the large sandbars in the middle of the river, I was faced with a forest of salt cedar interspersed with thorny Russian Olive Trees as I bushwhacked my way across the sandbar to see what was happening along the wider, deeper water running on the east side of the sandbar. Figuring they were hidden from the shutters and eyes of humans they commonly see along the accessible areas to the river, the Sandhill Cranes were playing games, drag racing to be more specific, very much like what you might see in an old Far Side comic.
As I emerged from the orange-yellow briar patch, a couple of Sandhill Cranes took off in a race down the river, while another pair quivered behind the barbed wire starting line ready to start their drag race down the river. I was able to catch the second pair on film and narrate the action in each of the photos below.
