Counting Crows

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Counting Crows

One for sorrow,

Two for joy,
Three for a girl,
Four for a boy,
Five for silver,
Six for gold,
Seven for a secret never to be told.

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"One for Sorrow" is a traditional children's nursery rhyme about magpies. I've used it here! According to an old superstition, the number of magpies one sees determines whether one will have bad luck or not. We often have a trio in our backyard. Being fixed, I don't think we anticipate a girl!

Always me? Whatever.

 These are American Crows. We don't have magpies in southeastern Ontario. All are part of the corvid family.

The genus includes jackdaws, crows and ravens, and magpies (the latter of which: are absent in Ontario!).

American Crow	Northern Raven
43-53 cm (17-21”) Completely black, purplish in sunlight, with large, chunky, strong black bill and feet. Woodland, farmland, grove, shore As far north as mid/central Ontario (summer) and northern Ontario. A loud caw, cah or kahr	55-68 cm (22 – 27”) Wedge-shaped tail Hawk-like in its flight (gliding/circling) Roman nosed bill, goiter-like neckfeathers. Boreal and Mt. forests, coastal cliffs, tundra. Does not venture much to southern Ontario. Croaking cr-r-ruck or prruk, metallic tok

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