Attack of the killer ravens

[Sweetpea]

High in the darkening sky, a flock of enormous ravens swoop and swirl - narrow black wings stretched wide, heads protruding forward and huge hairy beaks scything through the air.


Every few minutes they let out deep, throaty, honking calls as they soar effortlessly, circling around until, finally, they spot their prey and swoop. But forget dormice, voles or even small furry rabbits; these sinister looking birds are feasting on something far larger - newborn lambs.

And instead of hanging around for a few discarded bones or a forgotten carcass to pick and claw at, they've started killing live farm animals - by pecking them to death, in horrific scenes reminiscent of Daphne du Maurier's The Birds, turned by Alfred Hitchcock into one of the most chilling movies of all time. Throughout Britain, traumatised farmers have reported a sudden and disturbing rise in the number of livestock being attacked by ravens.

Attack of the killer ravens: Flocks are suddenly slaughtering lambs - what is going on? | the Daily Mail


The Birds...

I posted this to a Pagan website I am a member of.

Apparantly this is world wide.

Funny, my Great Grandmother ALWAYS said, when she saw a raven, that "One day they will turn into birds of prey, like the eagles".

Knew a LOT my Great Granny.

She ALSO said that the seasons would all become one. A Global warming afficianado before the term was known.

[Sweetpea]

Funny, my Mum died when I was 17, but I still find myself saying "my Mum told me that".

[terrywit]

Originally Posted by von Clausewitz

I posted this to a Pagan website I am a member of.

christ,



recall these from being on jackonory

[Bruv2]

I saw "The Birds " in Liecester sq, and came out of the cinema just as it was getting dark.
At that time starlings used to roost in the trees in the square.........it was eerie to say the least.

[skinny]

Quite simple in my mind.

It is a natural evolutic step from the carrion predator, from which the article actually touched on. Predator, in my opinion, an animal taking advantage of the first oportunity to eat

Now from my very simple logical view point...if we view this as news we are very puzzled as to why "we" are actually are?

Huh??

I was kind of understanding that until the last sentence.

[skinny]

I concur with you von, but i hace made sense of it...it relates to my opening statement "quite simple in my mind"...i think i was just trying to be a drunken philosopher.

We are just the same as the ravens, we take advantage of opportunities which come our way and then learn to take advantage.

[Sweetpea]

Opportunists you mean? Ravens however, tend to know there place in the pecking order ('scuse pun) of life, in this instance they are stepping outside their normal behavior.

[skinny]

Can i have your explenation of pecking order...and why, as i think you mean, a lamb is higher than a raven?