H.R. Waller
Date: 19 October, 2008
TIme: 1638
Weather: slightly cloudy, 58 degrees
Location: The Kaneko parking lot
As I was sitting here at my computer, I heard the familiar, scratchy "CAW CAW" of a blackbird. When I looked down out of my balcony on 3 east overlooking the kaneko parking lot, I saw a sleek, pitch black scavenger with what looked like a piece of garbage in his mouth. I tried to remember back to biology sophomore year when we did our bird unit to decide if it was a crow or a raven. Then I noticed the square shaped tail and remembered the "square crow" memory trick my teacher had taught us. To confirm that I was correct, I consulted Audubon and found that indeed, this bird with all over glossy black coloring and "heavy bill" was a crow and not a raven. Who knew sophomore bio would pay off one day??
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