Ravens had not been seen nesting in Washington for more than 100 years — until now. Two of the majestic birds were spotted nesting along the Potomac River, according to the D.C. Department of Energy & Environment. The department has tracked about 240 bird species in D.C., finding nesting bald eagles last year, and nesting ravens last week, fisheries and wildlife biologist Dan Rauch said.
EDITOR’S NOTE: I find it very interesting that these Ravens haven’t been spotted in Washington for over a 100 years but have now suddenly appeared during an “Election Cycle” Ravens are many time seen as unclean birds, a sign or an omen of evil or war.
“We didn’t have eagles breeding in the district for 50 years, and when it comes to common ravens, it’s over 100, so these are two big milestones just in the last few years,” he said. The male and female ravens are nesting under a bridge. The female is doing the incubating, and he’s the lookout and provider. READ MORE
I don’t believe that it is biblical for us Christians to see ravens as ominous creatures, since God used ravens to feed Elijah. These may be the only passages where ravens are ever mentioned in the Bible:
1 Kings 17:4 You shall drink from the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.”
1 Kings 17:6 And the ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning, and bread and meat in the evening, and he drank from the brook.
Psalm 147:9 He gives to the beasts their food, and to the young ravens that cry.
Proverbs 30:17 The eye that mocks a father and scorns to obey a mother will be picked out by the ravens of the valley and eaten by the vultures.
Luke 12:24 Consider the ravens: they neither sow nor reap, they have neither storehouse nor barn, and yet God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds!
There are still a lot of Dodo birds in DC, though thought to be extinct.
An omen?
1814 Russia withdraws after Napoleon attacks…then attacks Napoleon with everything they have. WW2 Hitler attacks Russia….Russia withdraws, later hitting Hitler with everything they have. 2016, Saudi Arabia and Turkey amass 360,000 troops ready to invade Russian occupied Syria. Russia Withdraws……anyone discern the pattern here? Jess sayin…This has historically been Russia’s military strategy…..