Love this! :)

And I'm a big fan of crows - brain (pronounced like 'brine') in Welsh; brân in singular. They're magic birds, associated with blessings and luck for some of us, and bad luck and death for those of us who are Chapel (uh... really religious? Only it's a specific type of really religious that's hard to explain outside of a full-length essay which includes historical/cultural factors.)

Crows are smart and funny and beautiful, and I am def. that weird woman that makes friends with all the village crows (there's a bloodline of jackdaws where I live with the odd white feather in them, too.) In my defence, they like me too, we have good chats together ;)