Ravens are our clean-up crew at school. They vie with the crows for “yard duty.” Despite our jokes that they might carry away a kindergartener, they are actually useful at school. They clean up trash and food from the playground. This useful duty almost makes up for the fact that they also poop on the railings, ransack the garbage cans, and pick bits of rubber off of cars . . . they tore up my rear windshield wiper and pecked at my sunroof seal. Why? I dunno. For me, I forgive them. I mean, just look at them. What’s not to love?
And, I haven’t ever mentioned my theory on the “vandals” who stole a windshield wiper off a colleague’s car. Rowdy kids? I don’t think so . . . try rowdy corvids!
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Liza Lee Miller 