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We love birds.

birds. We just love birds. I love birds. I love birds. I love

seeing beautiful big birds of prey. Whenever we see a hawk we get very excited.

We have some bald eagles where we live.

This is bird bragging.

But something happens every once in a while.

It happens quite regularly,

where I'll see a large bird that I think is like an owl or some cool bird of prey,

and I'll point it out to Kate or to whoever I'm with, and I get excited,

and then I realize.

Oh, it's never mind, it's just a crow.

What do you have against crows?

Well, nothing except that they're, they're just so common.

And maybe that's the thing. They're so ubiquitous that I don't I'm not excited by them

But they have like a lot of spiritual significance. I know to Native Americans that they are they signify like a crossing over into the other life and so I know they're very like sacred to many people and obviously they've been written about and throughout history like there's been some association with them being

spiritual connectors between worlds so I really should be excited more excited to

see crows but I don't know maybe it's maybe it's the fact that they're always around. They look quite ominous, you know, they have those piercing, sort of sinister looking eyes. They're always eating roadkill. They're always like, they're quite eating road kill they're always like they're quite

on a bash they're often right in the road just then they don't fly away to the

last second you know they're really like hardy but that you could but you could spend that and say that's an

impressive quality they're brave crows are brave grackles grackles are

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