Photobombs?

Thanks to affinity8 for the best laugh I've had in a while:

http://listoftheday.blogspot.com/2008/04/photobombers-of-day.html

Shiny black ghosts

Crows are common visitors here. We leave all the table scraps out in the yard for them. If they don't eat them, the raccoons and possums do. It's a nice little ecosystem.

I looked out the kitchen window a little while ago and the front yard was full of crows, walking around and pecking at the ground. I turned around to heat some water for tea and when I went back to the window, every last one of those crows was gone. They move in groups through the neighborhood, shiny black ghosts, communicating sometimes raucously, sometimes as silently as wingbeats.

Intelligent, fascinating presences with a complex and secret language that I always feel, if I just applied myself more, or sipped the secret nectar, I might be able to understand. It looks like I'm not the only one to feel that way.

I have a great fondness for them, anyway. Certainly, crows have been a recurrent theme in my life, in this blog.