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Jim Crow Still Flyin' High

Jim Crow Still Flyin' High

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Large black crow is perched on a sandy brown rock ledge with its beak parted widely as if it is cawing.  The pink-red of the inside of its throat can readily be seen between the sharp edges of its beak. In the background is an eroded hillside lined with evergreen trees. A grey cloudy sky is  behind the pines.  The eagle pictured in the second photo looks as though he’s been in a few fights in his time.  His faded yellow beak looks worn and is cracked and both his white head feathers and the black ones covering his shoulders and body look disheveled.  A blue sky with white cumulus clouds hover overhead his perch.
Photos by Jesse van Vliet and Sue Tucker on Unsplash

J. Crow and the Eagle

Only in numbers can a crow 

prove a menace to an eagle

Making a unique code of 

conduct and branding it legal.

From above and behind 

while an eagle’s in flight

The crow is quite able to 

avoid talons’ might.

The crow then can proceed

to peck and peck

At the eagle’s catch or 

the nape of his …

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