Go to Life in the Rocking Rectory
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Rocking rector
Nice post, happy to read you again.
posted by
WileyJohn
on May 16, 2011 at 3:21 PM
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An old country superstition was that a black crow settling near was to bring bad luck. Perhaps it originated from this bird taking small livestock from smallholdings etc. Road kill might have partially changed its eating habits and the decline of the keeping of livestock. Thank you for your comments.
posted by
C_C_T
on May 14, 2011 at 8:56 AM
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F I’ve seen our crow, eating the gizzard or another inner part of a dead animal hit by a car in the road. However I’ve never heard of them, taking away a live prey. In fact I don’t see crows, eating most of the time. I fed the birds corn kernels once in 1978. From then on the original raven that led the flock of crows and Calvin successors like the Pope and British throne with their flocks have stayed near me. BC-A, Bill’s RJLst
posted by
BC-A
on May 14, 2011 at 7:08 AM
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It is sad but then my cat left me a dead bird today as a love offering
posted by
skye08
on May 13, 2011 at 4:51 PM
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how sad, and not much anyone can do
posted by
Lanetay
on May 13, 2011 at 9:27 AM
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The laws of nature are sometimes hard to accept....I love seeing tigers and the deer alike, and just feel so sad that one has to kill the other.
posted by
Nita09
on May 13, 2011 at 7:20 AM
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I think that kind of sentimentality is only possible from the top of the food chain...
posted by
lionreign
on May 13, 2011 at 7:16 AM
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Oh my, powerful contrasts on the nature of nature...
Beauty and cruelty..I was pondering the complexities of things similar lately and it is mind boggling. Thought inducing post, RR.
posted by
Raye09
on May 13, 2011 at 6:10 AM
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Oh that is so sad and would be a good excuse for a bad golf score.
posted by
Kabu
on May 12, 2011 at 8:57 PM
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this spring in Decorah, Iowa by their fish hatchery they've set up
a web cam 24/7 with infrared light that the mother and her ducklings cannot see but actually since she's laid her eggs the entire world has been watching on... one time i saw her feeding them a dead carcass... maybe i'd do a sermon about the circle of life... to get to the site just google it at eagles decorah ia.raptor.net or something of that sort... enjoy!
posted by
poet_prophetess
on May 12, 2011 at 8:54 PM
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I've noticed with my dog... when I tell him "it's all gone..."
as re the food i'm sharing with him... he simply accepts it and walks away seemingly without much feeling... you sure get a lot of action out on that golf course... really sad action i might add... i just looked at your really nice website... sounds so quaint over there in norwich... did a nine year old girl sound your call to be a priest? ... how cool is that... wonder what a child would say about what you saw... ???
posted by
poet_prophetess
on May 12, 2011 at 7:56 PM
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Rocking rector
Very sad trip to that golf course, not something to crow about.
(Sorry)
posted by
WileyJohn
on May 12, 2011 at 3:21 PM
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Try the book of Job in the bible..now that will be your sermon! great writing!
posted by
Inspired7211
on May 12, 2011 at 2:57 PM
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That is just so sad...
posted by
Cheerygirl
on May 12, 2011 at 2:32 PM
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R.R....
In ature's world, no one said it would be fair, just as in our realm of humanity...nature can be downright cruel, as can man,
but, on the other hand nature can be beautiful, as can man.
..(thus endeth the sermon...:)
posted by
Rumor
on May 12, 2011 at 1:55 PM
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I think when you have time to reflect it will open up to you! sam
posted by
sam444
on May 12, 2011 at 12:19 PM
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