Re: Herons..

In message <BFDB71F9.270BE%sacha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Sacha <sacha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
Sacha <sacha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
One rook is a crow, more than one crow are rooks.

But what about two - never more than two?

Never more than two rooks, do you mean? Scores of rooks in our experience!

Well, two somethings ... I keep trying to apply the one or many rule, but we always have a pair: too many to be crows, too few to be rooks. We may have the one and only sociable or faithful pair of crows (they do look like crows)!

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Klara, Gatwick basin
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