Tubularsock

A guest blog from a great friend of Tubularsock.

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BIRD BRAINS

                       The Crow and the Hawk

About six months ago, a crow showed up on our deck.
We have many crows flying over our yard, occasionally hanging
out for awhile in our trees, before they move on.
This crow was different.
We found out that he had been abandoned as a very young crow,
“saved’” and adopted by some people in the neighborhood.
So he grew up in what for a crow would be an “abnormal family,
setting”, never really fully learning to be a “regular” crow, nor how to comport himself as a crow. . .
When his “people” moved away, he was left to fend for himself
and of course sought out what he knew—humans.
The other crows in the neighborhood shunned him.
He was not a “regular” crow.
So he inserted himself into human groups and gatherings.
Some of the humans saw him as obnoxious, pushy, and destructive.
He demanded to enter houses, tore up decorative flags
and umbrellas, tapped on windows to be let in . . .
He was a fellow WITHOUT BOUNDARIES.
Other humans found him “cute”, a “phenomenon”, a “charming trickster”. . .

I personally found him scary.
It was the no-boundaries.
The pushiness.
The destructiveness.
The refusal to leave when asked.
The seeming sense of “entitlement”.
His attempts to “dominate” our deck.

We tried kindness.
We tried words.
We put up decoy spinners.
We resorted to the hose.
And then to nails on the railings.
Nothing deterred him.
Until he encountered a visiting HAWK.
Then the crow RAN (flew) as fast as he legs (wings) would
carry him.
Ducking for cover.
Hiding.
If he could have managed it—tail between his legs.
The crow had met a powerhouse that quite simply he was no match for.
Would never be.
Trump and Putin.
Meeting in Alaska.
The Ukraine question.
The bully crow (Trump) caved (wisely)
when he met the hawk (Putin)
A crow doesn’t “negotiate” with a hawk.
He needs only his instincts to tell him he is out-matched, out-smarted, and out-powered.
“And he flew home as fast as Air Force One would carry him—right into Sean Hannity’s loving arms.”