"Lunch with your buddies..."

[Radoslav Karapetkov]

I've shot many rituals and sacred ceremonies in your neighborhood (Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands) with the Coast Salish and Kwagiuth Indians. After one shoot a "crow" or "raven" kept dive bombing at my head in downtown Victoria - wouldn't bother anyone else - only me. The Native Elders had a good laugh at this one.

"The Raven in Kwaguilth culture is known as the sky messenger of the animal kingdom. The Raven is famous for being a somewhat mischievous glutton. He was always out to please himself and have a good time, but his adventures always ended up bettering mankind."

Could be good fortune to have a lot of messengers around us - sometimes we just have to listen to what the message is.

Peace,
Dale

The ancient Greeks had special kind of priests. They were called something like bird-fortune-tellers and predicted the future by observing the behavior of birds. [or "augurs", but that's different and "augur" is Roman]

My bird-fortunetelling instinct tells me that it's a good thing. Maybe the Universe is telling us that it's time to mate, or that our current partner is the one and we should make the big step.

You never know... "Always in motion the future is"...

Anyway, it's a good thing. Take an amateur bird-fortuneteller's advice on this, if you want :sarcasm:.


P.S. I once saw a UFO making some strange maneuvers in the sky. Then I ran to a UFO-fortuneteller and she told me that maybe it's time for me to fly off.

P.P.S. Happy holidays! :clown2:

 

[albert rudnicki]

"Everywhere I go there are these damn crows..."

More and more I am convinced that soon my DSLR will cover with dust.
Can't wait for the pocket red.

 

[Axel Mertes]

Hey guys,

reading between the lines I have following "picture" of the situation we are all in:

1. RED sales gave me a very important Email just 2 hours ago (you know, THE email, like that phone call of the coming baby).

2. Jim is on VACATION.

What could that mean?

I keep my picture myself

Axel

 

[Bob England]

We are in the San Juan Islands, Washington. There are Mouflon sheep, Sika elk, Fallow deer, bald eagles, Peregrine falcons, mink, Orca whales (summer), owls, big-ass seals, and crows here. Plus, a couple of cats and our dogs... no one else. It is the absolute opposite of Orange County.

Jim

That's one heck of a commute; from the San Juan Islands to Lake Forrest in OC. Hope you don't do it daily! :sad:

 

[Zach Hilton]

If you knew how lucky I really am...

Jim

I met her at NAB. Very very nice young lady. I wish you the best of luck!

 

[Clint Johnson]

Those would be ravens harassing the eagle- twice the size of a crow and twice as smart. A lot smarter than the eagle in fact.

We have bald eagles around here pretty much all the time and the occasional golden eagles that are half again bigger than the bald eagle... somewhere I have pictures of them fighting over a deer carcass out on the lake where the golden eagle fought off four bald eagles to eat its fill- then the bald eagles ate their fill - then the ravens got their share- then the stellar jays- and then the chickadees came in for the clean up.

Then there was the swan that just couldn't make the trek south for the winter.

It fought the eagle off for a few days but then one morning the fight was over.

And the swan wasn't so pretty any more.

I've seen them mating, fighting, diving right under water after a salmon (and having to swim a couple hundred meters to shore after dunking themselves). They are particularly hard on the ducklings in the spring since they are slower and can't stay under water long enough so they are easy pickings when they are little.

I even have some crappy Hi8 footage of an eagle smashing its way through about three centimeters of ice to get at a dead fish floating up against the bottom of the ice. It would rise up into the air about three meters and then drive its clenched "fists" into the ice until it broke... that's hungry.

 

[Elizabeth]

Could be good fortune to have a lot of messengers around us - sometimes we just have to listen to what the message is.

I suppose it may depend on whether you are being dive bombed by an eagle or a raven or a chickadee, but I find that most often a message from birds
is a re-enforcement that one is "On Track" in one's life and efforts (or just right time right place).

Also an eagle in my dreams once told me that "There can be no Fear while Flying"

... so I would conclude that Jim's eagle encounters are indeed auspicious ...

Mmmmmm. I see grand and powerful things are ahead for RED!:sorcerer: :sarcasm:

 

[Clint Johnson]

I tend to see the presence of a particular species of avian in a given locale to mean that the environmental conditions of that ecosystem coincide with the prevailing conditions in which that avian species evolved... but I'm funny that way.

 

[Elizabeth]

I tend to see the presence of a particular species of avian in a given locale to mean that the environmental conditions of that ecosystem coincide with the prevailing conditions in which that avian species evolved... but I'm funny that way.

Yep! That too!

 

[Paul Leeming]

I've shot many rituals and sacred ceremonies in your neighborhood (Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands) with the Coast Salish and Kwagiuth Indians. After one shoot a "crow" or "raven" kept dive bombing at my head in downtown Victoria - wouldn't bother anyone else - only me. The Native Elders had a good laugh at this one.

"The Raven in Kwaguilth culture is known as the sky messenger of the animal kingdom. The Raven is famous for being a somewhat mischievous glutton. He was always out to please himself and have a good time, but his adventures always ended up bettering mankind."

Could be good fortune to have a lot of messengers around us - sometimes we just have to listen to what the message is.

Peace,
Dale

I've always had a fascination with crows and ravens.... so your story is inspiring to me

Cheers,

Paul

 

[IAN SUN]

That is one stellar Black Bird.
Gorgeous shot Paul.

 

[Curran Giddens]

I met her at NAB. Very very nice young lady. I wish you the best of luck!

Was she the one wearing the all-white outfit? I didn't go to NAB, but I think I have a pic somewhere....

EDIT: Not sure who took the pic, but here it is....

 

[Mark B.]

We are in the San Juan Islands, Washington. There are Mouflon sheep, Sika elk, Fallow deer, bald eagles, Peregrine falcons, mink, Orca whales (summer), owls, big-ass seals, and crows here. Plus, a couple of cats and our dogs... no one else. It is the absolute opposite of Orange County.

Jim

Probably the most amazing animal I've seen in the wild was a "big skate", which surfaced next to our dingy just after we'd paddled away from the shore of Spencer Spit on Lopez. It must have been at least six feet long from tip to tail, three feet wide or so. It just stared at me for a minute, within arm's reach, and then submerged. I spooked one of its babies camouflaged near my feet back at the shore, and I think the mother came by to let me know that it would cut me up if I wasn't more careful about where I waded in the future.

Oh, and the mice on the islands... so many mice. While I was camping on Sucia, all night long I had mice running under the tent through a dip between the ground and the tent floor - a space which just happened to be where my head was situated. I don't think there are many things quite as freaky as feeling a wild rodent running back and forth against your head.