10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2020

Of course, there may very well have been fowl-inspired weathervanes in ancient Greece and Rome. A few of my own observations of birds perching on Albany, New York’s weathervanes (clockwise from the upper right): A pair of Fish Crows ( Corvus ossifragus ) perched on a “fish”vane (what else?)

New York 157

New York Farming Belgium Fowl 157

10,000 Birds

JULY 12, 2018

Not that I haven’t been searching: by now I have a good backlog of bird-bedecked bottles that I’ve picked up over the last few months, just waiting for the right moment to uncork. ” I could very well say the same and so it’s high time to right this error of omission. So I survived. Good birding and drinking!

2016 102

2016 France Chickens Fowl 102

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Ever the moral perfectionist, Franklin argued that the turkey was a much more honorable and determined fowl, and suggested the bird – as an “original Native of America” – would make a decidedly more fitting avian mascot for the United States (seemingly implying – incorrectly – that the Bald Eagle is not an indigenous New World species).

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2017 Bald Eagle United States Turkey 154