The bed was upright and it probably helped to be tall; he assured me, No–trees, clouds, I can see out the window. Not all of it but yeah, I can see.
Good, I feel much better about that.
Meantime, I was stepping out the door today when a crow tumbled–no other word could describe it–out of the holly bush right in front of me and took off on foot, one disjointed wing at a funky angle after its roll down that prickliness.
I later did a search on whether crows fake injuries to lead you away from their nests, and the answer was, very rarely; they’ll be aggressive, they’ll caw for other crows to help them defend and mob, but faking injuries is pretty much for smaller more vulnerable birds, especially ground-nesting ones.
We’ve all seen crows playing king of the mountain at the tippy top of the highest tree around. They like height.
So, let’s see, there’s a snowy plover video here. But that one faked it with both wings. This was just one, and its quick walk was a bit awkward, too.
It couldn’t possibly have had a nest in that short holly bush–there’s no room in those tight spaces for a bird that size even if it wanted to. It was probably there to go after the berries. I wondered if one of the very small species that sometimes does nest in there (with a name like flycatcher you know they and their meals are small) had attacked it from inside there when it landed? I don’t know.
Did you run under my car. How am I supposed to get you to leave.
Now it was up against the neighbor’s house near a bush, that wing and walk still odd. My holly was out of sight and it did not fly to return to it. It cawed loudly, one loud yell, a pause, then another, just as a hawk soared from behind that house and coming into my view–but I don’t think the crow could see it yet. Huh.
I said to Richard later, If it actually was injured, why would it call attention to itself by yelling like that?
To call in reinforcements.
Oh of course. Yes that makes sense.
There was a neighbor I don’t know taking a determined fast walk just then, barbells in hand. I almost asked her, Did you see that crow being weird?!
But the question, um, might have seemed a tad close to home on the part of the one asking it so never mind, I didn’t.