Here’s some more persiflage: our first “spot the. . .” quiz that isn’t a photo. It’s a drawing on an old British postcard. There’s a raven hidden in it! Can you spot it? Answer at 1 pm Chicago time (h/t: Matthew).
Find the raven in the postcard 😀 pic.twitter.com/REIjQCWrTC
— Ravenmaster (@ravenmaster1) February 18, 2018
If you’ve visited the Tower of London—and you must if you’re in town—you’ll not only see the Crown Jewels and the Beefeaters, but the famous population of captive ravens, kept in the tower (one wing is clipped so they can’t fly away) and tended by the Beefeaters. They’re famous, and here are two of them, Jubilee and Munin. What a great photo! The last time I visited the Tower, I found the Raven Master (one of the Beefeaters, or Yeomen Warders) and had a nice chat about the birds.
They’re well fed, too. In an article devoted solely to these birds, Wikipedia reports:
The diet of the ravens is carefully maintained; it includes fresh fruit, cheese and fresh meat, as well as vitamins and other supplements. In 2007, the Ravenmaster Derek Coyle commented: “I buy fresh meat from Smithfield – liver, lamb, beef, chicken. And occasionally when I’m at my own place in Suffolk someone will give me some rabbit that’s been killed. If I see roadkill on the road, and it’s not been too badly mangled, I normally put it in a black bag and bring it back here. I give them biscuits as well, soaked in blood from the meat that I buy. And in winter I get them capsules of cod liver oil. I know they’re getting as much vitamins and oil as they possibly can. That’s why they look so healthy.”
Check back in a few hours if you didn’t spot the raven in the drawing. Note: try not to give it away in the comments.
One leg at a time!
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing,
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
Still, I don’t see any damn raven.
You must walk this one with a cane.
Oh, right. Not where I was looking at all.
that is kinda giving it away…
I cheated. Posting makes me think of the first and probably last Home Owners Assoc. meeting I attended the other evening. A large part of the discussion was about our urban geese and what are we going to do about them. Just one of many man made problems.
Urban coyotes?
OK, you’d probably want them even less.
Glen Davidson
Feed them and give them mobile phones so they can work as night patrol. It worked for the Romans.
All good ideas but I wonder who knows this one. Go around putting oil on the eggs in the nest. Mostly I think they get Pam and spay it on the eggs. This stops the egg from developing. But the goose does not know this and continue to sit on the eggs that will never hatch. Apparently this is much better than breaking eggs because if they just break the eggs the goose will lay more eggs.
I don’t believe you. Mobile phones were too heavy in Roman times for geese to carry easily.
Talk about your cryptic camouflage.
Found it!
Is there a way the pics can come through into email?
Is your intention to have a copy of the beefeater picture at a larger size to spot the raven? THIS is plenty large enough for raven spotting – DL it to your comp.
pic.twitter.com links don’t appear as pics.
So I have to go out to the site and pull it up that way.
One less step is more convenient.
What browser? I had that problem & fixed it.
The email subscription email in Apple Mail app….
So you read posts within the mail app rather than opening in a browser tab
And you can see most embedded images using the mail app, but not the Twitter embedded images of late, but you used to be able to see them within the mail app?
If that summary is correct then clear your twitter cookies off your device. Twitter changed their cookies recently & devices still with the old cookies are having similar problems. If you can’t see ANY images at all in the mail app, then change your preferences in the mail app.
If none of that helps then contact Apple support who are very good. But you’ll have to be clearer at explaining the problem! 🙂
Cookies for Twitter: there’s around a dozen different ones on your device!
Oh no – the obvious strikes… cookies.
Well, thanks for the suggestions. I’ll see if there’s anything I can do…
GOOD ARTICLE from last year about the Tower ravens: Chief Raven Master, Chris Skaife
The bit about the love life of raven Jubilee must be wrong though – he was taken by a fox a few years ago I think.
I’ve been to the Tower a few times, don’t remember any ravens. I’ll pay attention next time.
Seriously? They’re famous because legend has it that, if they ever leave, the Tower will fall down.
Too easy – it’s on the man’s left pant lag.
!!!
The raven image is in the Beefeaters pants, I think.
He’s British, what you see there are trousers. Pants go underneath.
Got it! I was going to say that it was baked in a pie…. the flat thing atop the beefeater’s head. But clearly there is another afoot. 😉
I must say that I’ve never seen happier ravens than the two in the photo! They must love the food there.
Who doesn’t love biscuits soaked in blood?
That must be the secret to having glossy feathers and hair!
For more of the Tower ravens, look up the ravenmaster1 instagram feed.