Ravens
Ravens are clever animals. They anticipate your move, calculating what you might do then move to stay ahead of you. Independent and wary, like cats, they watch your habits. They recognize the garbage bags, the food packaging they can tear or peck open, where you might leave it. And they have a language, probably a dozen distinctive sounds they use call to each other. Maybe more to the accustomed ear. They don’t sit alone like other birds, singing or talking to whomever will listen. They speak and then fly, getting on with it.