Canuck, eyeballing some hamburger
“Nagev” is “Vegan” spelled backwards. I apply it to the perfect anti-vegan which,
from my observations, is the crow. Old
fart that I am, I don’t eat very much but, through habit, I prepare hearty meals. Inevitably there is food
remaining on my plate when I burp, push back, and shamble into the living room
with the remains of a beer in hand. Later I find myself pondering just what do
with the stuff remaining on my plate. If
there is a lot I stick it in the refrigerator for tomorrow’s repast, but if
there is only a little, heretofore I would scrape it into the trash. But not any more.
I should point out that I cook and eat my greens most every
night. Nagging by every woman I have ever known well has instilled in me
the need to “eat right”. Thus my
left-overs almost always contain green stuff.
Well, since my encounter with Canuck, the famous Vancouver
crow, I have become a rabid Corvofile*. Instead of dumping the remains of my dinner in the trash, I
place it, plate and all, on my back deck.
Like magic, next morning the plate is clean, or nearly so. What remains is all the healthy green
stuff. From my observations, crows will
not eat beans, broccoli, cucumber, green pepper, zucchini, or lettuce. They also will not eat onion or tomato,
although these are not green.
Furthermore, I have it on good authority that they prefer egg yolk to
its surrounding white stuff.
What Corvids WILL eat is meat, potato, bread, cake, pancake –
that kind of unhealthy stuff. In other
words they are nagevs. My kind of bird!
*Science probably classify Canuck as Corvus brachyrhynchos although that is uncertain
He certainly is a handsome young man (because he's primarily interested in meat?!?)
ReplyDeleteFriday my usual beer and conversation group met at a new pub. They have good beer, but on available evidence their food sucks. I bought a carry-out sandwich that was so bad that I had to force myself to eat half. I put the rest out on the deck - my resident beggar crows cleaned it up in ten minutes. All but the scant plant-derivatives, of course.
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