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birds, birding 

I'm working this week in an office building that's part of a way-overdeveloped series of malls in the burbs. Turns out there's this Nature Conservancy on the edge, and I took a walk there on my lunch. Saw:

Eastern kingbird
American goldfinch
Killdeer
Great blue heron
Egret
Sparrow sp *
Buteo sp
Ringbill gull
Dabbling duck sp
Kingfisher
Barn swallow

* "sp" = "some damned species." When I see a sparrow, or a duck, I feel very smart that I know it's not a chicken, or pterodactyl.

birds, birding 

@gamehawk Especially the females and the juvenile males! Drab, drab, drab. They really need to smash the patriarchy and seize the means of pigmentation.

birds, birding 

@gamehawk Ugh! People. I can hate on the house sparrows and starlings crowding the feeders as much as the next cranky homeowner, but come on. They're trying to scratch out a living as much as me or any Bluebird. Bygones, already.

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