Chirstmas was very Merry for the ravens and for ME! My family has got the message (knock, knock, click, click, clunk) that I like RAVENS= and came through with the raven goods! I received a very cool raven tee-shirt, a personalized tea mug with the name Raven Maven on it and a picture of a perching raven AND a big raven puppet from the National Park Service Store! I now have 2 raven puppets and plan to put on a puppet show for the ravens as soon as the fog clears out.
The ravens received a very bountiful largess of phenomenal proportions- a set of prime rib bones complete with lots of fat, as a gift from family members. I saw raven sitting in the redwood tree so I put out a large hunk of meat and fat. I then went inside and was peeking through the drapes to see what Bold would do. Bold saw me and gave me the raven eye. (the raven eye is a bright and shiny eye that takes you in and says- I know what you are up to) Bold then came down to the deck railing to get the treat. Bold jumped around, forward and back a few times and THEN- he picked up the whole piece in his beak and flew off with it with Shy following right behind. It made me think that raven could pick up a whole rat if the occassion arose for such a necessity.
We went to see the new Sherlock Holmes movie the day after Christmas since I have been a Sherlock fan for many years. The director of the movie incorporated ravens into many of the movie scenes. He utilized the raven as a necrological apparition-announcing a death. The only problem with all this necrological nonsense was that the ravens had a CROW'S voice.! No great croak, or knock or click or clank- just a plain ole CAW! Pishaw- a perfectly poised remonstration- from 1895! I got it straight from my grandmother who was born in 1895- pishaw for crow's voices for ravens. For those lexicographers in the group:
Pishaw is derived from PISH- to make an exclamation of disgust!
A thing which causes many poohs and pishes, And several oaths! Byron
Grandmother and I are in good company!
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