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16 hours ago ago from Great Auk - or Greatest Auk?
As I walked up Park Avenue I spotted a Rock Pigeon chick, about ten days old, lying stiffly dead on the steps of a church. At that age, they are bristly and their underlying structure is apparent; you can see how they were related to the Dodo. At first I felt a visceral wrongness at seeing a baby bird in the heart of December, but Rock Pigeons will breed whenever the food supply is adequate, and in the city it always is. With pigeons so ...
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8 hours ago ago from Blogalopod — The Creature That Walks Like A Man
On the morning of the winter Solstice, I was dusting off my car with an old broom from some corner of the house. The car was idling, and the whole world, despite it being around 9:30 AM, was sleepy, except for the sound of a new engine and the snow under my boots. I see something dark flash by the side of my head, and I feel the single beat of a wing, and like an angry fist, something careens into the glass behind me, resonating through ...
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1 day ago ago from My Virtual Maryland Garden
While working in the kitchen this morning, a flash of color just outside the big glass doors caught my attention. Something avian, relatively big, black, white and red was flapping on the bird netting. As my eyes focused I realized that it was a red-bellied woodpecker. I moved in to take a closer look, expecting the bird to fly away immediately, but it didn’t. Then I realized why: it was on the inner side of the bird netting, in the space ...
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