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spring may actually be here now

2014-03-31 - 6:56 p.m.

I just read A Feathered River Across the Sky: The Passenger Pigeon's Flight to Extinction by Joel Greenberg. It's a relentless and depressing description of how a species that numbered in the billions was reduced to extinction in the wild in less than 40 years -- but 40 years is being polite and a nod to rounding errors because the whole thing really took place the decade from 1878 to 1888. This sickening and wicked waste of life is difficult to describe and the motive often seemed to be nothing more than putting a few extra pennies (literally pennies) in people's pockets. It wasn't bad enough to make all the adults run a gauntlet. They also collected all the squabs so that there was never any new generation to replace the birds that were killed.

On a more cheerful note, it's nice to see that SEO hasn't completely killed off the ridiculous description when a writer is looking for an alternative to repeating the name too many times. I found a particularly hilarious example yesterday. "The bequiffed Sheffield lad." Is bequiffed even a word? Maybe it is in English English but it struck my funnybone.

We've had some nice weather for a change. The neighbors had their small birds out enjoying the pleasant weather, and I ate dinner out on the bird porch with my own little flock.

I know. I was supposed to put up a photo page from Spain. I will do it soon. I wanted to make a collage but evidently I have forgotten how to do it in PhotoShop. So there's another delay.

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