tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-966269378423643111.post2010144319581262110..comments2023-06-26T11:56:42.715+00:00Comments on Birdwatching magazine blog: Patch-watchingMike Weedonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13585282148070606734noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-966269378423643111.post-70042278898349211612008-03-05T15:27:00.000+00:002008-03-05T15:27:00.000+00:00If I recall correctly (from my youth) from the Edw...If I recall correctly (from my youth) from the Edwardian book Familiar Wild Birds Vol 4:<BR/><BR/>"In some parts of the country the flight of a Raven across one's path is enough to make the heart of the boldest rustic quake, whilst to hear its unspeakably horid croak from an adjacent bough is held to be prognostic of the direst calamities"<BR/><BR/>...but it may be the other way round.<BR/><BR/>Mike WMike Weedonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13585282148070606734noreply@blogger.com