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http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/06/150702-crow-rides-bald-eagle-animal/
The crow and the eagle.
This is on a different site to my Twitter site, but the very same story.

Rusty, that is quite amazing - a crow hitching a ride on an eagle's back! If I hadn't seen the photograph I would have thought someone was trying to pull my leg! (where do these strange expressions come from?)
It says in your article that it may have started out as the crow trying to pick a fight? That sounds incredible considering the difference in size between the two birds?
A Napolean complex - but a suicide bid surely, if so?
But they both looked happy enough with the situation!!
(I wonder where they were going?)
I still haven't caught up with watching the Ninth Diamond League.... I did record it but just haven't had time to play catch up. This is why I like to watch these events as they are broadcast - I so rarely get the chance to watch at a later date- there is always something else by then that requires my attention!
I really must get down to some household tasks
tomorrow ....I'll dyson, you'll be tescoing.......what happened to 'hoovering'? - the PC brigade would call it vacuuming?
and maybe I might even get out a duster..... quickly before the Davis Cup!
You have managed then to see quite a lot of your friends whilst they have been here? are they of Irish or Scottish descent?
When do thy return to Belfast?

Hello, Elle!
Yes, it is a smashing sequence.
Now, I have no idea of what I am talking about here, but is Mexico's symbol not an eagle and a snake?
I seem to remember the eagle picked up the snake and the snake eventually killed the eagle?
And there is a bird that snatches up prey and drops it on a cactus plant to impale and kill it. A shrike does similar.
I saw a sequence on one of the nature television channels in which this huge crocodile had a go at a hippo. The hippo turned on the croc and bit it in two.
And I saw a sequence in which a great white shark took on a killer whale. The killer whale made mincemeat of the great white.
My friends are mainly from Belfast who are here but have married Dundonians, so they have.
Not sure when they go back. After the bonfires are out!!!
Remember you have Le Tour to watch tomorrow and are bear spotting, too!

Hey, Rusty!
The Mexican coat of arms is a golden eagle eating a snake on top of a cactus. But that is all I know!
That sounds similar to what you were saying?
We don't get any Nature TV channels! - I know , we really should think about changing our supplier- but I really don't have the time to watch much television ....the poor dog has had curtailed ( no pun originally intended, but it's quite a good one , don't you think?) walks for the last fortnight due to Wimbledon!
And now there's Le Tour... would I get away with watching Highlights??????
Seriously, it's becoming a challenge now to 'lick' this and fully comprehend the system! and I'm waiting to see a bear.......
Bonfires...???? you've lost me here ?

Thank you, Elle!
I am sure I read a book by James Michener about the eagle and the snake. But that is all I can remember.
Oh, no, if you are happy with your Freeview stick with it Elle. I have about 20 documentary channels at least, but only put Nat Geo and Nat Geo Wild, and a couple of history channels into my "favourites" menu. I am not a TV watcher either. I like the Sky Arts channel, but lately it is mostly Andre Rieu concerts on most of the day, so I am going to discard that.
Highlights are fine, Elle, though we are about to hit the high mountains and there will be drama.
Think I read there are only 18 bears left in the Pyrenees, so we will do well to see one. There are enormous birds.
Think they call them griffons?
The bonfires are an Orange tradition on 11th night.
Enormous does not begin to describe them.
They are months building them, mainly wooden pallets.
I saw ones this year, that had what the loyalists fondly thought was the Irish "fleg" they were burning, but was actually the flag of the Ivory Coast.
It is not at all normal across there around the 12th.
Hence my friends have came over to sunny Scotland to get away from the mad folk.
Still 1690 over there!

Cross purposes, Rusty! I thought you meant bonfires in Dundee! and was wondering why? I see now that they are in Ireland!
Griffons are both vultures (?) and a breed of dog!
I'll do my best to watch as much of the Tour as I can, as I want to follow the scoring and the subsequent jersey awards (I think I'm hooked! )and also I'm interested in the mountainous regions- where's my bear? - but I'll record the highlights, too, in case it proves necessary.
Covered on both counts, then!
Time for bed...... I'll just head out for a bit of tree-hugging first.......Night.......

Elle, not Dundee, no! We are fairly civilised.
Belfast. They are still lit and lots of trouble going on.
Now I could be wrong about the griffons, they may be lammergeiers?
In Le Tour we often see unforeseen things.
It is a while now since I have seen a rider being allowed to go ahead of the race to meet his family.
What happens is the rider comes from a village on the race route, and a few miles from his home, he seeks permission from the yellow jersey and also his team captain, to ride ahead and see his family at the roadside. Permission is always granted with the strict proviso that there will be no funny business, like attacking once he is out of sight!
He rejoins the peloton once they catch up with him.
All very nice and pleasant, but I have not seen it for a while.
Elle, the tree-hugging is a great idea, but no gallumphing!
It is morning here, so time I retired.
Goodnight, Elle.
I still have Pete Seeger's Goodnight Irene earworm going on. But I like Pete!

Hi Rusty
The Lammergier takes bones and drops them onto rocks to break them,they are spectacular birds

Thank you, Doglet!
Be nice to see them again!

Hi Rusty
Legend has it that it was the bird who killed Aeschylus by dropping a tortoise on his bald head.We have typical summer weather at the moment rain and wind but we are supposed to pick up hot weather from France