10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

This weekend offers a special opportunity to those of you who like to slice and dice your bird sightings by the most esoteric measures possible. Have you started your Leap Day List yet? What could be more challenging that growing a list you can only work on every four years at nearly the nadir of avian seasonal diversity. Sounds fun, right? The beginning of March signals the point at which we get serious about Saw-whet Owl sightings along Lake Ontario, but I’m not sure I’m feeling th

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

“One for the rook, one for the crow, one to wither, and one to grow.” There are many variations on this traditional farmer’s adage about sowing, which instructs the planter to scatter four seeds for every plant one hopes to harvest, so as to account for inevitable losses to birds and other hungry animals scouring the fields. Doubtless it’s a very old saying and the details can vary according to time and place: sometimes one of the larcenous birds is a blackbird rather tha

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