Morning (Foreign) Bird Pic

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From France, we move to the UK, which I most recently visited over the New Year's break. This bird is on a sign, specifically over the Eagle and Child pub, where the Inklings gathered. The Inklings were an informal group of writers and academics, most famously including J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis, which met at the Eagle and Child in the 1930s and 1940s. You can sit where they sat, drink a pint, and eat a meal -- though like so many of the UK pubs, this one is now owned by one of the "chain" pubs. Still, it's nice to imagine the Inkling's ghosts still haunting the place.

Can an eagle carry off a child? Could a swallow carry a coconut?