I Like Birds 4 - The Crow

 

Today we feature a murder of Crows with the musical selections courtesy of  Ernie

 According to Bird Aware the crow family, or corvids, are intelligent and adaptable birds ,with strong feet and robust bills

Intelligent and adaptable indeed. The one's outside The Crown in Portpatrick are prone to swoop and make off with the sachets of tomato sauce, vinegar and salad cream

Apparently there are four members of the Crow family - rooks, carrion crows, ravens and jackdays. The Portpatrick ones are firmly in the second tranche.

To the music. Ernie kicks off simple with Crow by Cinder Well who it seems is at the vanguard of a different kind of transatlantic folk music revival, one forged amidst the uncertainty of a global pandemic.

He then goes for a twofer Doves & Crows by Bare Bones. There may well be more Doves later on in this series

Next up are the aptly named Birds of Chicago with the Humboldt Crows which as I'm sure you are all aware are named after the German polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and proponent of Romantic philosophy and science Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt

For the final offering I'm glad to see something from the Bloodshot stable (or should that be nest?)  namely Land Where The Crow Flies Backwards by Roger Knox and the Pine Valley Cosmonauts.

Many thanks for these Ernie

More ortnithological observations next Friday

Cinder Well - Crow

Bare Bones - Doves & Crows

Birds of Chicago - Humboldt Crows

Roger Knox & the Pine Valley Cosmonauts - Land Where The Crow Flies Backwards