Breaking News – Penultimate Corvid-2020 Weekly Challenge.
Welcome to Week 12 of my Corvid-2020 Weekly Challenge. Corvids are birds belonging to the Corvidae family, encompassing ravens, crows, magpies, jays and nutcrackers. So peruse your corvid photo, poetry, music and story archives and join the challenge.
You can participate in the Corvid-2020 Weekly Challenge by creating a pingback to this post (my pingback approval settings are set up for manual approval, so it may take a little while for your pingback to appear) and/or by leaving a hyperlink to your submission in the comments. Tag your post Corvid-2020 or C20WC. I really do hope you will join in.
Dear Readers, I am running out of ideas for my Corvid-2020 Weekly Challenge. All good things must come to an end, I guess. I have decided to end my challenge at Week 13 for obvious reasons. Don’t be sad. We still have two opportunities to impress ourselves with our brilliance. Just joking. Perhaps I might start a spider challenge next. Joking again. It is not the right time of year in my part of Australia for spiders. Anyway, back to the corvids.
Judgment Day
the games we play
survival of the fittest
adapt or die
time out versus sin bin
two sides, two ways
sufferin’ย succotash
she who dares wins
we woz robbed; the raven decides

I had some wonderful entries last week. Check them out.
Spring into Summer With Magpie Cuteness
I hope you will join me this week and again next week for the final instalments of the Corvid-2020 Weekly Challenge.
Kind Regards.
Tracy.
What us ths Corvid challenge exactly? How do I participate in it?
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Hello there and welcome. Corvids are particular types of birds. There is a list in my post. To participate, all you need do is a prepare a post that is corvid related on your own site. It can be anything – poetry, art, prose, photography, music – and then link it via a pingback to, or leaving a link in the comments on, my latest corvid challenge post. Have a look at some of my other readers’ contributions (links also included in my post) and you will get the general idea. I hope that explanation helps. Hope you join in. It is fun.
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Thank you so much. Too bad the challenge would end in 2 weeks. I have a question; is the Greater Coucal a corvid bird? Cause the only corvid birds found here is the crow and I am not sure about this Greater Coucal bird. Please help.
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From what I just read, it isn’t.
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But we don’t let the facts stand in the way of a good story.
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So in this challenge, can write the post about this bird or should I write one about a crow?
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Either. The crow is more cirrect but it would also be interesting to know your pheasant is called a crow pheasant. I’ll leave it up to you.
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Thank you so much. I’ll definitely send the link of the post. This challenge seems very fun and exciting.
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We need more weekend days to fit it all in…Every time I hear “suffern’ succotash”, I can’t help think of the Looney Tunes…nice glossy capture of the raven.
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Thanks, Heather. Yep, not enough time. Well, I might have more time if I got out of bed earlier. :O
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Perhaps, I could send Ophelia for a visit… she’s up with first light, lately that’s about 5:30..but it doesn’t really mean more gets done ๐คช
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Haha. I could get that up early if I stayed up all night. In winter my dogs get up at 10am every day.
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I just mentioned that to Ophelia hinting how nice that would be, and she grunted…translated it means, don’t hold your breath!
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“sufferinโย succotash” makes this poem a winner, Tracy. Like Heather, I was reminded of Looney Tunes too!
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Me too, Punam. My brain has turned to mash. It was all I could manage to come up with. ๐
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You managed pretty well! ๐
If it’s any consolation my brain has too turned to mash!
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Thanks, Punam. One more to go. Phew.
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I tried last week to get a good photo of my local raven being harassed by a starling, but the wind has been blowing like a MF and the wire they were balanced on was swinging like something populated by a kid on a playground. ๐ฆ
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That’s so funny. The weather and the birds are waiting for the whole challenge to be over. I don’t blame them. ๐
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Today at the refuge a yellow headed blackbird posed for a long time 5 feet in front of me and I didnโt take his picture ๐
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Oh wow.
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It was amazing.
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I really enjoyed this edition of the Corvid Challenge! I’m going to be sorry to see it end.
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Thanks, Liz. I’m going to be sorry too. It has kept me going in some dark times.
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โโThis raven knows exactly what it is doing hahaโ YouTube.
Also have a look at the painting by 19th century artist Emily Carr, Big Raven. โโBig Ravenโ is an ironic
Canadian image and is a national treasure.
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I watched the video. That eagle woz robbed. ๐
Emily Carr’s painting is amazing. I thought at first that I was looking at a sculpture.
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Another lucky photo from the weekend
https://bushboy.blog/2020/06/10/the-raven-and-sunset-2/
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Thank you.
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Hello! Hereโs my post for the challenge. I couldnโt get close up photos but hope you enjoy! https://twilightartist.wordpress.com/2020/06/10/bird-fantasy/
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This one looks ready for the competition.
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Absolutely. It is the Ref.
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Love the sonics of your poem!
Also very appropo for the time we find ourselves.
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Thank you so much, Ju-Lyn.
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A raccoon is in the tree top of my cherry tree eating the cherries. They can not be menaced so there she will stay til the kits call. My tree is the Queen Anne variety and I think I can get some cherries at the local market.
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Ah, she has arrived. You’re very kind to make that sacrifice. ๐ I don’t get any cherries off my tree either. I don’t know the variety, but the birds and brush-tailed possums sure do like it.
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Great pic & poem, Tracy ๐ Here’s 3 dodging looking characters from me: https://jezbraithwaite.blog/2020/06/12/plotting-corvid-2020-weekly-challenge-12/
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Thank you, Jez. Glad you could join in again.
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Such a fun challenge. I wish I had found it sooner. Oh please do spiders in the fall.
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Glad you had fun this week, Carol and am so pleased you joined in.
I’ll think more on the spider idea. ๐
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I have no idea how I got unsubscribed from your blog Tracy. This is a challenge I would have enjoyed, so I’m sorry I seem to have missed it. I hope I’m now on the subscription list again!
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It was probably my stupid laptop, Margaret. The trackpad is so sensitive that I only have to accidentally brush it, and it goes and does secret things unbeknownst to me. I swear I lost about 50 subscribers on one day. Although other people have had similar problems, so maybe it is a broader issue.
It is a shame you missed the corvid challenge. It did prove a welcome distraction over a few horrible months. I post the last challenge opportunity this coming Tuesday. Feel free to join in for the final week.
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I might just have to do that!
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Please – no spider challenge! ๐ Although I daresay Darren would be so pleased. ๐
Lovely shot, Tracy!
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๐ Have you watched too many scary spider docos, Sarah? You must look up the dancing peacock spider on YT. The peacock spider is tiny and exquisite. Honestly, nothing to be scared about. I have never come across one, but it would be a dream come true if I did.
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I’ve actually had a chance to watch the fascinating dance of the dancing peacock spider about two weeks ago in a documentary! And you’re absolutely right – it’s beautiful! Still, 8 legs are 4 too many for my taste! ๐
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But they are such little legs. ๐
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Okay, okay! But that’s the only one I’ll allow anywhere near me. ๐๐ And only if it dances!!
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๐ธ okay.
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