Article: Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif., Gary Bogue column: Crows feast on almost anything, even big rats.

Byline: Gary Bogue

Jun. 7--Live with vultures, become a vulture; live with crows, become a crow.

-- Laotian proverb

Dear Gary:

Early the other morning I looked out on our back lawn to see a crow pecking furiously at something. He then flew off and I went out to investigate.

What I found was what seemed to be a freshly killed large rat.

Would the crow have somehow killed the rat or was he just an opportunist? I removed the rat carcass, and later noticed the crow returning to the same spot.

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