Tree crow

Keeler, R.F. and Crowe, M.W. (1984). Teratogenicity and toxicity of wild tree tobacco, Nicotiana glauca in sheep, Cornell Vet., 74, 50-59. 

The crow flapped out of the tree as I reluctant put away n phone. The clatter of its wings was bud in the crystalline silence. I watched it fly across the frozen Scottish moorland. But as bleak as it was, evennowthere were geen shoots starting to push through the frozen earth, forerunners ofthe springto come. 

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