Ya know, I just like Łukasz Rawa’s photography. Go check out his page on Unsplash. He has some truly stunning images of birds, like this one.

I saw a few Hooded Crows like this at Powązki Cemetery in Warsaw last month, but I couldn’t get close enough to them to get a good picture, especially on my phone. It was the first time I saw one of these in person, in the wild. We don’t have these in North America, so it was special for me to see them hopping around and nibbling at random bits on the graves as though they were doing some maintenance cleaning. Like all Corvids, they have extraordinarily intelligent eyes, and there was a moment when I felt weighed and measured, but ultimately they had better things to do than worry about tourists and they went about their business.

I’ll be in England and Finland next month. I wonder what birds I’ll have the joy to see there. In the meantime, I’ll learn more about these gorgeous creatures.