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David Dalton
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 Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2004 3:36 am Post subject: Seagull returns!!! |
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After I had just left Dominion supermarket on Ropewalk Lane
a little while ago here in St. John's, Newfoundland,
I spotted a bright white all white (top and bottom and including
wing tips) seagull. It was I am pretty sure the same species
but about 2/3 the size of the one described in
http://www.nfld.com/~dalton/luthien.html
so perhaps that one was Jonathan Livingstone Seagull
and this one today was Luthien Seagull , if the males
of that species are bigger, but today's may just be
younger.
Anyone know what species it is, and how rare it is?
It must be rare since I haven't seen one for sure
since February 1996.
Also how would you interpret this sign of today?
Many happy returns,
David |
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Elaine Stutt
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| Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2004 11:40 am Post subject: Re: Seagull returns!!! |
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David Dalton (dalton@nfld.com) writes:
| Quote: | After I had just left Dominion supermarket on Ropewalk Lane
a little while ago here in St. John's, Newfoundland,
I spotted a bright white all white (top and bottom and including
wing tips) seagull. It was I am pretty sure the same species
but about 2/3 the size of the one described in
http://www.nfld.com/~dalton/luthien.html
so perhaps that one was Jonathan Livingstone Seagull
and this one today was Luthien Seagull , if the males
of that species are bigger, but today's may just be
younger.
Anyone know what species it is, and how rare it is?
It must be rare since I haven't seen one for sure
since February 1996.
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Well, looking at the trusty bird guide, it might be an Ivory Gull,
which is an arctic gull about the size of a Black-legged Kittiwake.
They rarely come inland. I've seen bird-alert about them so I
imagine sighting them is rare.
| Quote: | Also how would you interpret this sign of today?
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Oh, I don't do signs, but when I used to commute over a bridge, I
always thought it a good sign when I saw a white Egret.
| Quote: | Many happy returns,
David
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Yeah. Can't say I've ever celebrated Bloom's Day but yeah.
Elaine
( Uh, the NCF doesn't do automatic crossposts, and, deletes all groups
but the one posted from so, if you're not actually reading a.r.d
you'll be missing this Oops!  ) |
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David Dalton
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| Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2004 9:31 pm Post subject: Re: Seagull returns!!! |
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On 17 Jun 2004 06:40:32 GMT, cu072@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Elaine Stutt)
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| Quote: | Yeah. Can't say I've ever celebrated Bloom's Day but yeah.
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I wonder if any Irish people ever consider(ed) James Joyce
a sort of druid and suspect that some did/do, even if
he was Christian.
Thanks, Elaine,
David |
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Elaine Stutt
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| Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2004 10:12 am Post subject: Re: Seagull returns!!! |
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David Dalton (dalton@nfld.com) writes:
| Quote: | On 17 Jun 2004 06:40:32 GMT, cu072@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Elaine Stutt)
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Yeah. Can't say I've ever celebrated Bloom's Day but yeah.
I wonder if any Irish people ever consider(ed) James Joyce
a sort of druid and suspect that some did/do, even if
he was Christian.
Thanks, Elaine,
David
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I know we had one poster who did. I think the idea was that modern
Irish writers were continuing in an unofficial bardic function.
Well, unofficial if you consider that Brehon law had died. He thought
that writers, without a specific mythic content, were still important
and might be more accessable to many than the much older texts.
Joyce's work is certainly obscure enough and long enough to be encoding
whole myth cycles. But, except for the early works, it's not very
accessable.
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David Dalton
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| Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2004 11:19 pm Post subject: Re: Seagull returns!!! |
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Elaine Stutt wrote:
| Quote: | David Dalton (dalton@nfld.com) writes:
On 17 Jun 2004 06:40:32 GMT, cu072@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Elaine Stutt)
wrote:
Yeah. Can't say I've ever celebrated Bloom's Day but yeah.
I wonder if any Irish people ever consider(ed) James Joyce
a sort of druid and suspect that some did/do, even if
he was Christian.
Thanks, Elaine,
David
I know we had one poster who did. I think the idea was that modern
Irish writers were continuing in an unofficial bardic function.
Well, unofficial if you consider that Brehon law had died. He thought
that writers, without a specific mythic content, were still important
and might be more accessable to many than the much older texts.
Joyce's work is certainly obscure enough and long enough to be encoding
whole myth cycles. But, except for the early works, it's not very
accessable.
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Songwriters are very important too, they often have surface
meanings, other meanings of their own, and maybe other
meanings they are inspired to put in but don't realize
until later, and sometimes even prophetic components.
Music and songwriting are very important, the living flame.
David |
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David Dalton
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| Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2004 11:21 pm Post subject: Re: Seagull returns!!! |
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David Dalton wrote:
| Quote: | After I had just left Dominion supermarket on Ropewalk Lane
a little while ago here in St. John's, Newfoundland,
I spotted a bright white all white (top and bottom and including
wing tips) seagull. It was I am pretty sure the same species
but about 2/3 the size of the one described in
http://www.nfld.com/~dalton/luthien.html
so perhaps that one was Jonathan Livingstone Seagull
and this one today was Luthien Seagull , if the males
of that species are bigger, but today's may just be
younger.
Anyone know what species it is, and how rare it is?
It must be rare since I haven't seen one for sure
since February 1996.
Also how would you interpret this sign of today?
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I am now pretty sure from scanning images of Ivory Gull
on http://images.google.com that both the 1996 larger
one and the recent smaller one were/are Ivory Gulls.
Now I will update the Tolkien groups I guess.
David |
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