SC - birds and beliefs

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Bonne of Traquair wrote:
> 
> >
> >And Don't forget the morning (mourning) dove.  They also have been said sit
> >outside a hospital window and coo mournfully waiting for someone to die.

Actually, they like to bask in the sunshine. My apartment windows have a
southern exposure, they frequently show up on my window sill and have a
little party, I shoo them away, and in day or two they're back. If
they're waiting for someone to die in my apartment they've been
remarkably patient for the last twelve years or so.  Maybe we're too far
from the hospital?
 
> but is there any superstition associated with the pilated woodpecker who
> insistently drums on the flashing around my chimney, morning after morning
> at sun-up until mid-day?

Yes. It is part of the ancient wisdom and folkways of the midwives and
herbalists in my area that if you provide a semi-rotten, insect-infested
tree for the woodpecker to locate insects in, they will not mess with
your chimney flashing. The fact that they do mess with yours is an omen:
you don't have a buggy, semi-rotten tree nearby.
  
Adamantius
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Phil & Susan Troy

troy at asan.com
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