Workers sweep the squares with willow brooms, and flocks of pigeons swoop across the courtyards or roost on temple rooftops, their fluttering wings blending with the distant hum of traffic and car horns.
When fall comes, there's an anticipation of change -- turning leaves and cooling days, crunching leaves and gathering flocks.
Again, the attractive theology (that priests give their lives completely to God and their flocks) is undermined by the figures for priestly vocations.
Income taxes do matter, and harmful tax policies cause flocks of industry leaders and fledgling small business owners to find a way to successfully maneuver to their best advantage.
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Keep your binoculars handy and watch the flocks as they glide past the floor-to-ceiling windows.
As wild migratory birds will sometimes visit farms and as domestic flocks of ducks or chickens often live alongside pigs, especially in developing countries, this is quite feasible.
According to the US Geological Survey, the American Buff-Bellied Pipit is 5.5in (14cm) in length and is usually found in flocks in ploughed fields, shores and tundra.
Each May and June, the flocks of seafaring birds arrive on the islets, clamouring for the best breeding spots.
Some 106 miles to the southeast is a network of salt lakes that are home in spring and summer to vast flocks of pink flamingos.
Rigs of 6 to 100 ducks or geese were strung out early mornings on ponds and marshes as hunters hid behind blinds, hoping migrating flocks would see the decoys and come in for a landing or at least approach out of curiosity.
This would moisten a bit of the exposed lake bed and provide an emergency stopover for the enormous flocks of geese, avocets, grebes and teal that visit the Salton Sea.
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Estrada, 62, is candid about a private life that includes flocks of mistresses and children born out of wedlock.
We saw flocks of birds and then another spout, this one sandwiched between our boat and the islands and much larger than any we had seen.
Black pied crows perch in their dead branches and then suddenly take off in flocks to surf the swirling breezes around the dunes.
With minimal narration and swift explanatory titles, the director sweeps viewers up in the surging movements of huge flocks that swarm from north to south every fall and back again in spring.
Christian leaders should be encouraging their flocks to care about the poor and voluntarily help them.
They heard how mathematicians have found that the urge to synchronize works inside flocks of birds, schools of fish and certain inorganic objects.
In some places, at least, ruthless monitoring of poultry flocks has reduced both the avian disease and the (already rare) cases of people becoming infected.
The beach is sheltered by sand dunes overgrown with juniper bushes, and at one point runs between the sea and a saltwater lagoon that is often home to flocks of flamingos.
The countries represented at the summit pledged a co-ordinated fight against the disease and issued a declaration that mass culling of infected poultry flocks was the best way to control its spread.
Yet it is home to a roadside stand serving organic fruit and vegetables, a health-food shop packed with nutritious grains and a superstore that University of Washington researchers found attracts flocks of shoppers from well outside the desert.
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"That's why everyone who actually wants to sell clothes flocks here vying for interest of the best buyers and best media, " said Rabimov.
This can allow it to spread in flocks unnoticed, making it much harder to track and also possibly creating more contamination since the birds are surviving and spending more time on farms, in markets and elsewhere.
From sandy riverbed campsites you can watch flocks of colourful parrots as the sun goes down, and the night becomes even more eerie when dingoes fill the darkness with their howls.
Flocks of them used to fly to Hong Kong, Bangkok and Hawaii to buy imported European goods more cheaply than they could at home.
And allied to cloning, this should allow PPL to set up whole flocks that can be pharmed for human proteins in an economically viable way.
Ferries, fishing boats, private launches and container ships jostle for space in these crowded waterways, presided over by flocks of screeching seagulls that supply another of the city's signature sounds.
From throwing fireballs to directing flocks of ravens or firing lightning bolts, the vigors are permanent once acquired and powered by salts found throughout the city.
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