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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;silverthwait, post: 127628, member: 103&quot;]Avian anecdotes:</p><p><br /></p><p>When we were growing up, my parents had an enormous, and educational, calendar.&nbsp; Each month had dogs, cats, birds, wild animals, etc., etc.&nbsp; Since we lived in the country, I expected to see the birds in all directions.&nbsp; Many did appear, but some remain still on the page.&nbsp; Orioles eventually showed up, snowbirds, cardinals, barn swallows (elegant!), and one day an absolute Flock of scarlet tanagers!&nbsp; Ditto with red wing blackbirds - flocks only.&nbsp; Humming birds aplenty, as my mother had a butterfly bush.&nbsp; And at the other end of the spectrum, PA has this perfectly homely critter known colloquially as a turkey buzzard.&nbsp; Seen in groups in the dusk beside the road...one tends to roll up the car windows, elsewise one does not feel safe somehow.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have never yet seen a bluebird <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/frown.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":(" unselectable="on" />, but one day my father and I both hit the ground, as a giant shadow suddenly covered most of our front lawn.&nbsp; Our UFO turned out to be a bald eagle, about 12 feet off the ground.&nbsp; EEGAD![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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