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Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Angry Birds of Preying?

Crows descend on Bothell for nightly slumber party | KING5.com Seattle
http://www.king5.com/news/Bothells-nightly-invasion-of-crows-195181751.html

Eating crow [, or crow eating prey; pray not.]
"Scavenging carrion eaters have a long association with the battlefield, "They left the corpses behind for the raven, never was there greater slaughter in this island," says the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. Along with buzzardsrats, and other carrion-eating scavenging animals, there is a tradition in Western culture going back to at least the Middle Ages of seeing them as distasteful (even illegal at times) to eat,[5] and thus naturally humiliating if forced to consume against one's will.[2]
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_crow#section_1

Year of the Snake, the arrival of the Burning Man, ...

"undulating designs nightly for the next two years[, heralding his arrival.]