Posted on 01/26/2014 10:48:53 AM PST by ebb tide
Prophetic!
“Look, I am sending you out as sheep among wolves. So be as shrewd as snakes and harmless as doves...”
I live within sight of one of the major breeding islands on the Mid-Columbia, populated by California and Ring-Billed gulls. Been here all my life, active boater and bike rider along the shore. Never seen a gull attack anything but fish.
this has all the markings of a message. A symbolic gesture meets with cold, hard reality.
I think they were blackbirds.
--Voltaire, Candide, ch. 21
I had a seagull grab a cheeseburger right out of my hand one time when I was at the beach. ;o)
They know a well fed dinner when they see one!
Lol!
Hey! They attacked Tippi Hedrin!
And crows killed Suzanne Pleshette!
I live on Long Island, NY. I boat, I chase them out of my garbage cans on land. Their favorite haunt is the town dumps. They are garbage processors and will eat anything they are often there at Wendy’s begging as I sit in my car eating a burger. I don’t give gulls anything. I know for a fact they will kill mammals and birds but have not seen them Do that I often see them eating thrown out burgers and fries and also road kill. On my boat I have seen them pluck eels and small sharks out of the shallows and fly them high then drop them on rocks or better yet in the middle of a parking lot to kill them.
The local commercial fishermen treat them with the same respect the ancient mariner should have treated that albatross. Seems they keep dead stinky stuff under control. I am familiar with herring gull, great black back gulls and I know of others but not their names.
In some places in Europe, seagulls will attach and devour pigeons that walk too close.
“Were the attacking birds Amish ?”
Asshats who ‘blame the Amish’ are ignorant. It is a disgrace to FR that some do that. Call a spade a spade...but not ‘Amish’. I have many Amish friends in the world’s largest Amish Community, located in Holmes County, Ohio. These ‘characterizations’ are full of the drivel coming out of said noses of those who speak so ignorantly. Those who do think it is ‘smart’...well, I think it is a ‘smart-ass’ kind of comment that we should not use on FR.
“Were the other birds black..if they were you have black on white crime”
Well, here under the Obama/Holder regime, that can never be a hate crime. But the other way ‘round?...Always!
Some years ago we were sailing in the Bahamas...a bareboat charter in the Abaco Keys...we had a charcoal grill on the boat we could hang over the rail...we were 8 of us on board, we were grilling 9 pork chops...a gull swoped down and grabbed one off the grill right ‘under my nose’, so to speak. They are aggressive, and not just for fish in the water. Kinda like Holder’s people...if it belongs to you, it’s mine if I can grab it...
Kind of symbolic of the evil chasing after our souls. Beware.
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