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One for Sorrow, Two for Joy, Three for a Girl, and Four for a Boy, Five for Silver, Six for Gold, and Seven for a Secret never to be told.
I wonder if a pair of them nesting not ten feet from my bedroom window is good luck or not. There is the joy of the pitter-patter of tiny feet, but these things are a menace and have been a known harbinger of the eldritch for centuries.
On the face of it, pests. Noisy, filthy little flying rats, with a penchant for roadkill and anything shiny. They are Corvids, intelligent, carnivorous and social, part of the Crow family. If I leave a window open and turn my back on it, they will happily carry off my tools and parts. They scream at me every time they see me and fly off if I open the window, but they are bloody persistent and have managed to construct quite a sturdy nest while I'm not looking.
Last year it was pigeons, other than being stupid and messy I didnt mind them so much.
One of the joys of living at eye level with the treetops. Its a mixed blessing for sure. ;-)
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My mother had a pet crow when she grew up on the farm and its name was Jim... go figure ;-) The Blue Jays here are the noisy ones and the Mocking Birds set up a racket all night while nesting....But Starlings are the worst of all in my book :-)
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Heh, here we call pidgeons "rats with wings"... Crows, less-so.
Is that poem, then, I take it, not originally from the band Counting Crows...?
But you said a pair, and two is for joy... so whatcha worried about, a few lost tools? ;)
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