Duly yoink’d!
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(No onebox? Hmmm.)
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I would love to have some raven/crow friends.
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It was pretty spectacular having crows “walking” me to school every morning, during what shoulda been my senior year. They’d often be waiting for me on the front lawn of the school at lunch, too, and they’d take off once they saw me.
I never got a chance to wave at magpies, but I’d wave at ‘my’ crows.
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Was there a reason they liked you, like; did you give them food? And did they give you presents?
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I’ve got a family of magpies here (they nest in a gigantic holly in my neighbor’s garden), and I’d love to make friends with them, but I guess a cat (even though she never caught one bird even in her prime) might put a damper on that…
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I have no idea! I never fed them, and their presence was my present.
One morning the three of them were playing on the roof of the bank on the block S of mine, and playfully flew from there to trees along the way, talking much of the time. It was like they were showing off for each other and me. Once the school hove into view, they took off with loud caws.
The same thing happened the next day, and the next…and I never had any witnesses. I didn’t talk about it, and told only the coupla friends who’d asked after seeing me greeting them at school.
Whenever they were at the school at lunch time, I’d wave and say hello, which they’d acknowledge before flying away. Had they been there only in hopes of scrounging dropped food from the kids, they’d’ve stuck around.
We have three crows in the neighborhood here whom I occasionally see, or more often, hear. They showed up w/in the last few years.
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Very cool! I guess they liked something about you.
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They are evidently one of my main “totem animals.”
Flocks of crows would hang out near my Coliforniyahn BF’s place, and caw like mad until he got outta bed to get his act together to come visit me. Once he was up, they took off. They never did that at any other time, nor could they see when he was up.
I told another BF about my interesting relationship with crows, and the next morning, there was a crow on his little balcony. He’d never seen one there before. They looked at each other for a long moment, then the crow softly cawed and flapped off.
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I have a weird thing with turtles, or at least I used to. It started at the cottage one year; there was a big snapper on the road on the trip up that finally moved its ass off the road away from traffic, a small one that I’d see swimming in front of the cottage every evening (I think it’s still there), and an injured one that was on the way home. I stopped, put it in a box and took it to the humane society, who sadly had to euthanize it.
Within a week, I started seeing things like turtle ornaments, hearing someone talk about turtles, reading random books that would mention turtles. There would be a turtle reference every day for two years.
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You’re the kid from that meme, and I claim my £5!
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I don’t know the meme …
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Hah!
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Art by a coworker from a place I worked at years ago- she originally painted it on wood as a unique commission for someone, but when I commented on how much I loved it she made me a secret print of it, so I have the only copy in existence. I plan on proudly hanging it on my wall for the rest of my life, barring a fire or other disaster that could destroy it.
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Animated gif of a crow strutting on a railing
I tried direct link and a paste of the image, but apparently Discourse doesn’t like animated webp.
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