The unlimited time irks me "until further notice" I'm thinking about crossing the Van Wyck and the fence anyway, and it's time to start making phone calls.
My friend writes from Portland: "...we learned all about a crazy plan to shoot 400,000 barred owls over the next ten years, because they are coming over from the eastern US and outcompeting the native spotted owls for food and habitat. The barred owls will eat anything and have less restrictive roosting requirements and the spotted owls keep a very limited diet and such and so they are unable to compete and are going extinct."
There was a majestic fish crow cawing away above us on the walk to school today.
Reading Derek Goodwin's Crows of the World (1983), which starts:
"The crow family, Corvidae, is a numerous, diverse and successful group of passerine birds. It includes such familiar species as the Rook in England and the Blue Jay in eastern North America and also others, such as the Sooty Jay and the African Bush-crow, about which little is known. Corvids range in size from the little lark-sized Hume's Ground Jay to the Raven, which is the largest of passerine birds. Some are dull or uniform black in hue, others are among the most colourful of the world's birds."
There's a substack about birds that mentions crows.
Flowers are coming soon:
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