No respect at all!

[sbl]

[Pvt. Sweetey]

At first I laughed, then slapped myself for doing so.

[3rd_PA_Artillery]

Everytime I've passed that statue on my trips through Gloucester, there has been at least one gull on that man's head.

[Robert A Mosher]

Admiral Farragut is memorialized in Farragut Park in downtown Washington DC. In all of the years I have lived here, I don't believe I have ever seen a pigeon on that statue - only seagulls. Fascinating how they know.

I may be over that way tomorrow with my camera and will try and get a picture.

Robert A. Mosher

[flattop32355]

It all depends upon how you look at it.....

The gull could well be standing watch over him.

[plankmaker]

That is why statues must be designed accordingly.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSwEjmV8VVk&NR=1

Mark Campbell
Piney Flats, TN

[TheQM]

Please note how the rain hat has protected the Fishermen's neck from gull droppings!

[sbl]

It' s a "Sou' wester"

[cannnfodder]

The seagull's just giving the lad that long- sought- after PATINA!
What would the statue have done to it if it was in front of the Crow's nest? (LOL)
Actually the seagull is paying the highest respect to a Fishermen- Taken what was once eaten in the ocean and giving it back to the Men of the Sea.

[Curt-Heinrich Schmidt]

How d' ye!

The artist who designed the staue for the hatless 1796 surveyor Moses Cleaveland doomed Cleaveland to a life of pigeon droppings.

Several years ago, the crusted statue was cleaned and restored, and relocated off Cleveland Public Square i a redesigned area complete with waterfall.

It did not take the pigeons more than a day to return to their old ways, powdering Cleaveland's wig white.



However, across the quadrant is the 1894 Civil War Soldier's and Sailor's Monument that has four larger-than-life bronze vignettes depicting CW infantry, cavalry, artillery, and navy that the birds seem to politely ignore.





CHS