A Murder of Crows

Posted by Ultradog MN on November 27, 2006 at 07:50:04 from (71.220.63.32):

I read somewhere that a bunch of crows is not called a flock but a murder.
I guess it comes from crows being carrion eaters. Someone would die and a flock would pick at the body. Folks in days of old thought the crows killed them.
This fall I have seen more crows than ever before in my life. A couple of times now you'll hear a terrific squawking and cawing and look up to see literaly hundreds of crows perched in just a couple of trees. Never seen so many before.
This summer I sold my house and am renting at a friend of mine in the central city till I find another.
Lots of different kinds of folks here: Mexicans, Somalians, Blacks, and lots of Asians.
I know several good Asian families - done a lot of carpentry work for them. Kind of got to know their culture a little.
A lot of them - Vietnamese, Hmong, Laotian - think that crows are very bad birds. Seeing them in the tree outside their home is a bad omen - a harbinger of bad things to come.
There is a family of Hmong that lives right across the street from me.
This morning I went outside to have a smoke and there must have been at least a hundred crows in the tree in their front yard.
A couple of generations of their family all live together and it was a bit humorous to see their reaction to all those crows.
The old Grandma would cautiously open the door and peer out then quickly slam the door closed.
Old Grandpa wouldn't even poke his head out.
Mom and Dad and the kids were all looking out the windows - craning their heads up to see into the tree. You could see them all jabbering and jesturing and having a big family confab.
Then Grandma ran out with a broom and made sweeping gestures at the sky before darting back in.
Finally the Mom must have worked up the courage to go start the car. She ran out the back door with a blanket over head and raced for the car. She got it running and drove directly in front of the door. She opened the back door of the car and the whole family came out of the house in a flood with blankets over their heads - kids screaming and crying, every one shouting and piled into the car. They drove the heck out of there.
I'll bet that poor family thinks it is entirely doomed. Poor folks.
I watched it all from the front step. It was so humorous that I stayed out for a couple of smokes.
Of course I was silently chuckling all the while.
The poor things...

Replies:

• Re: A Murder of Crows gorilla 17:55:28 11/27/06 (0)
• Re: A Murder of Crows Jon Hagen 16:39:53 11/27/06 (0)
• Re: A Murder of Crows doogdoog 15:04:12 11/27/06 (0)
• Re: A Murder of Crows HAPPY DEERE 14:13:05 11/27/06 (0)
• Re: A Murder of Crows MN Bob 13:34:17 11/27/06 (0)
• Re: A Murder of Crows mjbrown 10:00:55 11/27/06 (0)
• Re: A Murder of Crows JMS/MN 08:53:36 11/27/06 (0)
• Re: A Murder of Crows Mike (WA) 08:07:45 11/27/06 (0)

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