My crow avatar, full image.

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1. Carl T. Bergstrom (ct_bergstrom@fediscience.org)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Dec-2022 07:13:38 UTC Carl T. Bergstrom

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   The crows at work almost always spot me before I spot them. I think they recognize my gait because they can find me in a new jacket with the hood up against the Seattle rain. They have a particular flight pattern, a low swoop braking right in of me, to get my attention.

   Sometimes their wingtips brush my arm as they come by. This took a while; at first I would feed them any time I saw them, even up high on a light pole. Now I wait for them to swoop me.

   My avatar here is one of those work crows.