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To: JF Quinnelly who wrote (32978)	7/25/1999 11:44:00 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 71178

Am I the only one that has noticed more crows than previously? I think I've broached the subject before and got no response. When we moved here I never noticed crows, for years, and I spend a lot of time outdoors. And now, there are crows everywhere. Why? Is it because the area's become more built-up and crows scavenge people food? Is it because cats and cars and lawn mowers and other artifacts of civilization have killed off other birds locally, and the crows are filling the niche? Or is it something global?

To: JF Quinnelly who wrote (32978)	7/25/1999 3:53:00 PM
From: Gauguin	Respond to of 71178

<<<Just big, fat, frigging crows. Let's see Gaugie meditate his way around those.>>> Heh heh. Way ahead of SC there ~ most meditating ~ I was about to say "serious meditating" ~ like I would know what that is ~ is done when our little friends are asleep. Often starting at "midnight" ~ the middle of the night, like Roman midnight, say 3 a.m. Long before the birdies start. And, in India, there's those ghastly wurlitzer organ loudspeakers that blare out of city and countryside starting at about five a.m. I don't know if they're Muslims, or who-ever, but they pray for and on everyone. They just crank up these tower speakers to levels what would embarrass the Stones and blanket the whole city like cell phone coverage. Since chaos is invisible in chaos, no one but me seems to notice. They will set up speakers to blare into each other's religious compounds, like on their own walls, facing outward, blowing down into the courtyard next door. To like purge a perimeter, blow back the sea foam, or just to piss each other off. These are not just outdoor speakers, they are similar to the ones on Oahu used to alert the whole island to tidal waves. Crows become very discouraged and suicidal in this environment. There are some really, really cool whoop-whoop-whoop-whoopy-WHOOPPY WHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPYYYYYYYY birds that are awake late into the night, and simply the loudest animal call I've ever heard. From any specie of animal.