As the crow flies!

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You have to love the sky to love this post, but ever wondered about the origin of the idiom "As the crow flies"?

The meaning of the saying is "in a straight line" and is often used to explain distances between two places. But I digress, as today I have some sky shots for you and a full explanation of the saying "As the crow flies" can be seen at the end of this post!

Talking about how the crow flies will not be great if no crow appears in the post?
This is a Pied Crow (Corvus capensis)

Just a beautiful sight of the wind playing with the clouds here!

I told you that you have to love the sky to love this post and the wind and the clouds 🤣

Right and here is another crow flying in a straight line!

The wind sweeping the clouds into the colors of the sunset!

Yet another Pied Crow flying in a straight line!

Finally just a windy sunset scene to end the post here!

So where does this saying "As the crow flies come from?

"As the crow flies, similar to in a beeline, is an idiom for the most direct path between two points. This meaning is attested from the early 19th century, and appeared in Charles Dickens's novel Oliver Twist:

We cut over the fields at the back with him between us – straight as the crow flies – through hedge and ditch.

Crows do conspicuously fly alone across open country, but neither crows nor bees (as in “beeline”) fly in particularly straight lines. Crows do not swoop in the air like swallows or starlings, and often circle above their nests. One claim, that before modern navigational methods were introduced, crows were kept upon ships and released when land was sought, has no scientific basis. In fact crows would not travel well in cages as they fight if confined".
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Many of us here on @hive are second language speakers and I hope that this post will bring some clarity to anyone if they ever here this idiom (saying).

I leave you with this below!

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All of the photos are my own, fresh and taken today. I used a Canon Powershot SX60HS camera.

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