Still sitting pretty

Sheryl the crow, nesting in glory outside the
Guardian office. Photograph: Mark ApplinSam Wollaston provides the latest news on the crow nesting in the plane tree outside his office window, sending him and his fellow hack into a flap.

Read the first installment here.

Not an awful lot going on today, or any other day. Sheryl sits on the eggs, Russell doesn't. He's not a bad sort though, he's not off chasing other tail feathers I don't think. In fact, crows often stay with their partners for life, apparently. As do emperor penguins and possibly albatrosses. Hey, the Farringdon crows could be adopted by the Christian right, like that penguin film was - they're a perfect advert for monogamy, morality and family values. Except that these are liberal crows obviously, or they'd be nesting outside another newspaper's offices.