As far as I can remember I've been my mum's pet so when a intruder tried to invade my territory I wasn't too happy initially, however I have relinquished my throne to this new contender as the bond between my mum and the crow is really too cute to take offense.
Yes, you heard it right, my mum's new pet is a crow who is absolutely crazy about my mum's cooking. This brings to mind the fact that crows have always been fond of my mum's cooking, back in the time when us kids were little and my mum had just got her first oven, she went on a baking spree and we had cakes, cookies, nankhatais, you name it for high tea. It so happened that one day she baked a cake and my brother seemed to be finishing his share a little more than enthusiastically and coming back for second and third helpings, something which he never did. My mum helped him to another piece, to which he demanded a bigger piece saying "The crows are absolutely loving the cake", he had been feeding her precious cake to the crows!!!
Now the hero of this piece, the new pet crow arrives every day around mid morning for its due, and is quite vocal about advertising its arrival, making a perfect racket until my mum walks into the kitchen and offers some kind of food to it. It has been a regular arrival for the past few months and these days has become quite spoilt for choice. If you offer it plain crusty chapati or a plain biscuit, it will look quite disdainfully at it and then at you as if meaning to say "You got to be joking right, you expect me, the royal Highness of Crowland to eat this crap ???"
Today I decided to write about it and wanted to attach a picture of the crow so became a wild life photographer and stalked the crow, but the wily crow just wouldn't put up an appearance when I was around pointing my trusty blackberry at it. Finally after a few hours of playing cat and mouse, his royal highness relented and allowed me to capture a few images. I really admire the patience that wild life photographers must possess when they are waiting for the perfect picture.
it seems everyone these days have a pet crow....I have a similar pet that comes to our window every day...and we'd put a piece of chapati or a bread for him on the sill. However as you mentioned I also find this breed a little moody...they don't often like what we have to offer, nonetheless they'll never miss their visits.
ReplyDelete@ Krunal... absolutely, quite a few people have told me of pet crows :)
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