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Two hooded crows (Corvus cornix or possibly in this case C.c sardonicus) perched on top of a building in the centre of Trieste, Italy. The one on the left has, shall we say, a highly confident stance (cheeky so-and-so).
Reminds me of the old border ballad:
As I was walking all alane
I heard twa corbies making a mane:
The tane unto the tither did say,
'Whar sall we gang and dine the day?'
Plenty of superb places to dine in Trieste, that’s for sure (and, for those who know the poem, you don't have to eat all knight).
This photo was taken with my newly purchased Canon PowerShot SX 40 – an amazing bargain now that the SX 50 has been introduced. The lens was stretched to its 840 mm maximum, and the camera was hand held.
Twas the twenty-third of December,
and all through the day,
not an employee was stirring,
except maybe Trey.
Taken: from the window overlooking the staff room. ~ 12:00pm
Formerly the TWA Flight Center, designed in 1962 by Finnish architect Eero Saarinen, now a kind of 1960s theme park.
Joe Schost (left), director of maintenance with TriStar Experience, exits the plane as pilot Mike Barron and his father, co-pilot John Barron, both of Hannibal, Mo., and formerly of Kansas City, look on after they too left the cockpit of the "Wings of Pride," an MD-83 McDonald Douglas commercial jet, Friday morning, Aug. 7, 2015, in the first hangar at the TWA Museum at the Charles B. Wheeler Downtown Airport in Kansas City, Mo. The jet bears an opposite color scheme (white accents on red rather than red accents on white) because it was purchased by the employees of TWA in 1994. The plane was used by TWA and later American Airlines, was later retired, then restored and new engines installed. It arrived Friday morning from Roswell, N.M., where it had been kept in a hangar with B-52s. It will now reside at the TWA Museum for tours and used on Honor Flights for veterans.