One is for Crows (or Magpies)

One is for Crows (or Magpies)

I came across this old-fashioned nursery rhyme in a mystery book I was reading.  It was funny because I had just started to draw a picture of a crow.  I had since seen the nursery rhyme on two TV shows that I admire.  I thought it was some kind of sign, so I included it with the drawing.  It turns out the nursery rhyme is really about magpies which are in the same family of birds as crows.  The picture I was working from was of a crow standing in the grass.  I couldn’t see what his feet looked like so I googled crows’ feet and a ton of people came up with lines around their eyes (aka wrinkles).  I had to chuckle.  I finally found a picture of a crow’s foot and completed the drawing.