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“What has it got in its pocketses?”
Clearing out the closet and look what I found in several pockets?
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Raptor Wednesday
The female that has made Sunset Park her territory. And one of the males in Green-Wood.
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Coney Island of the Mind
Fish Crows. Ring-billed Gull. American Herring Gull, and is that a fish head? Common Loon.
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Scoter Saturday
White-winged Scoter/Melanitta deglandi close to shore. And further out, Black Scoters/Melanitta americana.
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Snail Notes
Snails are hermaphroditic so perhaps it is not surprising that the German word for snail, Schnecke, was masculine in Middle High German but became feminine in Modern High German. Snail in German, French, and Latin can be slang for vulva. Hegel thought snails upset taxonomic order; he presumed they reproduced body parts like plants. There’s a…
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More Ducks
These give you a good sense of how small Bufflehead Ducks, and/or how big Mallards are. The same day the above were on Crescent Water, There was a female Ruddy on Valley Water, keeping on eye on threats from above.
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