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Birds attack peace doves freed from Pope Francis' window
Fox News ^ | 1-26-14 | AP

Posted on 01/26/2014 10:48:53 AM PST by ebb tide

Two white doves that were released by children standing alongside Pope Francis as a peace gesture have been attacked by other birds.

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TOPICS: General Discusssion; Religion & Culture
KEYWORDS: crows; doves; peace
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To: Irenic

Prophetic!


41 posted on 01/26/2014 12:40:56 PM PST by PoloSec ( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
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To: ebb tide

“Look, I am sending you out as sheep among wolves. So be as shrewd as snakes and harmless as doves...”


42 posted on 01/26/2014 12:40:57 PM PST by PGR88
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To: Vaquero

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.


43 posted on 01/26/2014 12:42:22 PM PST by steve86 (Some things aren't really true but you wouldn't be half surprised if they were.)
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To: steve86
***I’ve never heard of a seagull attacking anything — but fish. Weird.***


44 posted on 01/26/2014 12:46:57 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Sometimes you need 7+ more ammo. LOTS MORE.)
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To: All

this has all the markings of a message. A symbolic gesture meets with cold, hard reality.


45 posted on 01/26/2014 12:47:47 PM PST by newnhdad (Our new motto: USA, it was fun while it lasted.)
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To: Cowboy Bob

I think they were blackbirds.


46 posted on 01/26/2014 1:17:01 PM PST by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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To: Jeff Chandler
"Do you think," said Martin, "that sparrow hawks have always eaten pigeons when they have found some?"

--Voltaire, Candide, ch. 21

47 posted on 01/26/2014 2:29:27 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: steve86

I had a seagull grab a cheeseburger right out of my hand one time when I was at the beach. ;o)


48 posted on 01/26/2014 3:33:18 PM PST by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

49 posted on 01/26/2014 3:35:44 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Mr. K

50 posted on 01/26/2014 3:36:56 PM PST by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him.)
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To: ebb tide

They know a well fed dinner when they see one!


51 posted on 01/26/2014 3:37:58 PM PST by dalereed
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

52 posted on 01/26/2014 3:40:27 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: ebb tide

Lol!


53 posted on 01/26/2014 3:41:43 PM PST by Zionist Conspirator (The Left: speaking power to truth since Shevirat HaKelim.)
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To: steve86
I’ve never heard of a seagull attacking anything — but fish. Weird.

Hey! They attacked Tippi Hedrin!

And crows killed Suzanne Pleshette!

54 posted on 01/26/2014 3:45:45 PM PST by Zionist Conspirator (The Left: speaking power to truth since Shevirat HaKelim.)
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To: steve86

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.


55 posted on 01/26/2014 4:25:48 PM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: steve86

In some places in Europe, seagulls will attach and devour pigeons that walk too close.


56 posted on 01/26/2014 4:32:59 PM PST by SgtHooper (If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj; Jim Robinson

“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.


57 posted on 01/26/2014 4:38:27 PM PST by GGpaX4DumpedTea (I am a Tea Party descendant...steeped in the Constitutional Republic given to us by the Founders)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

“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!


58 posted on 01/26/2014 4:51:06 PM PST by GGpaX4DumpedTea (I am a Tea Party descendant...steeped in the Constitutional Republic given to us by the Founders)
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To: Vaquero; steve86; boatbums

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...


59 posted on 01/26/2014 5:05:22 PM PST by GGpaX4DumpedTea (I am a Tea Party descendant...steeped in the Constitutional Republic given to us by the Founders)
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To: ebb tide

Kind of symbolic of the evil chasing after our souls. Beware.


60 posted on 01/26/2014 5:09:50 PM PST by tioga (Wise men still seek Him.)
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