When a mysterious black bird began showing up outside the Capitol Hill offices of the Utah Attorney General’s Office last month, the large raven was the talk of the office.
It was unusual to see a bird that size perched on the window, unafraid of the people on the other side of the glass tapping to get its attention.
And for a month, the bird kept coming back. The employees named it “Edgar” — a nod to Edgar Allen Poe’s poem “The Raven” — and wondered if the bird was good or bad luck.
“We snapped pictures,” Richard Piatt, the communications director, wrote on the AG website, “left croutons for her to eat, enjoyed her friendly presence.