Pets

[SERIOUSLY THOUGH*]

My photos of Poe (the crow's new name) are on my tablet, so I'll upload them when I can.

Now for the sad tale of Poe and the lost banana.

Here we were, chilling, eating bananas, when Poe appears at the window. "Ayy feed me" quoth the crow.
We give him some banana, he looks at it, takes a peck. And goes absolutely ballistic. Tearing and pecking and guzzling. He had apparently never tasted something so good.

Naturally we give him a little more before going upstairs to get changed for the day. Two minutes later, who doth appear at our window but our favourite crow ! Smart bugger knows where we are. So I go down and get some more banana (wondering if we've begun a spiralling addiction). Poe happily takes his piece of banana and flies off to the neighbours window-sill. He starts a-pecking when the three kids that live there spot him and come up to the window to say hi.

Poe is happily pecking at the window as he usually does when it comes to communicating with humans. Then, scum arrives. I refer to her as scum, as she doesn't like Poe. She tries to shoo him, waving a towel around. Poe, startled, flies off, astruck with sadness as he sees that he forgot his banana on their window sill.

But Poe got the last laugh. The window doesn't open, and is on the 2nd floor. Which means that scum was stuck with banana on her window-sill until her husband got the long step-ladder. Not sure when they finally removed the banana, as it was still there the following morning.

I hope Poe has taken it upon himself [or herself, who knows what gender s/he is] to peck at their window all night.


More Poe stories to come, with video, including "Poe Vs the evil iPad screen".