Feathers in your cap

[Harold Cannon]

If your chief approves it then there is no problem because that is his right as chief.

[MacLowlife]

PugC,

Have you noticed the tendency of crows to stand with their backs at an exact 45 degree angle to the horizon?

[pugcasso]

PugC,

Have you noticed the tendency of crows to stand with their backs at an exact 45 degree angle to the horizon?

I haven't noticed that specifically ... is there any more information about that?

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I have heard about the legal status of owning eagle feathers (I think this type of restriction apples in Canada as well).

I wonder if that law only applies to eagles of North American habitat. Maybe the Scottish feathers used are from the 'Golden Eagle' native to Scotland?


I'm currently only interested in crow feathers (just ones I find) ... a giant raven feather would be nice but ravens aren't in the city

[Bugbear]

I'm currently only interested in crow feathers (just ones I find) ... a giant raven feather would be nice but ravens aren't in the city

We have lots of ravens down here in the Southwest desert cities. There's one who has lived in my tallest palm tree for several years now. There's bats up there too.

[MacLowlife]

I have an interest in crows, too and I have noticed that they usually stand with their backs at a perfect 45 degree angle, but I can't explain it or add any particular significance. However, I think it would be a good start for some religion that maybe also embraced baseball and/or picture framing.

A bishop's hat is called a mitre and the joint used to fasten two 45 degree cut pieces is also called a mitre. Bishops wear black. Crows are black. The rest is details.

[piperdbh]

A bishop's hat is called a mitre and the joint used to fasten two 45 degree cut pieces is also called a mitre. Bishops wear black. Crows are black. The rest is details.

If the bishop is presiding he wears white, and snow on crows is white. If the bishop becomes a cardinal, he wears red, and cardinals are red.

More details.

[JSFMACLJR]

Bishops wear black. Crows are black. The rest is details.

Well not to be too pedantic, bishops seldom wear black. The episcopal colour is green; their cassocks ( generally ) are purple; they wear vestments of the colour of the day/season which may be white, red, green, violet, rose...or black.

Maybe there are bishops somewhere who wear black, but I really can't agree that "bishops wear black." They only do so when celebrating masses of the dead and on Good Friday ( if they follow the older uses ).

[davidg]

Maybe there are bishops somewhere who wear black, but I really can't agree that "bishops wear black." They only do so when celebrating masses of the dead and on Good Friday ( if they follow the older uses ).

The idea that bishops wear black may come from the medieval chimere. Originally a riding cloak the chimere is now used primarily by bishops in the Anglican communion, some independent Episcopal churches, and by holders of doctorates at certain universities. While for the most part the chimere is scarlet in colour, traditionally it is black for a bishop, with the scarlet version only being used "in convocation". Often it is hard to find a bishop wearing a black chimere these days but if you look hard you can sometimes still see that

However, I don't think bishops or mitres have anything whatsoever to do with eagle feathers, crows or how they may stand at 45 degree angles to the horizon!

[ThistleDown]

We have lots of ravens down here in the Southwest desert cities. There's one who has lived in my tallest palm tree for several years now. There's bats up there too.

Bat feathers. Now there would be a collection of immense interest and great value. And certainly would be a feather in the cap of the collector.

[Bugbear]

Bat feathers. Now there would be a collection of immense interest and great value. And certainly would be a feather in the cap of the collector.

I suppose you could train a pet bat to dangle from the cap badge by it's little hind legs.