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The Summer Doldrums

10,000 Birds

Sparrows are missing; wood-warblers vamoose. Arctic Tern – the opposite of what I must be Though it is undoubtedly true That if with this plan I went through I would complain about those darned kangaroos So I’ll just stick with what works – a nice cold brew! I’d rather be blasted to the belt named Kuiper.

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How much bird is there, anyway?

10,000 Birds

But it happened at that moment that a lot of what I was looking at was avian in nature: a few crows, some sparrows, blackbirds, and other run of the mill inner-ring suburb fliers and flitterers. I’m sure there were a lot of insects in range of my eyeballs, hiding behind leaves or camouflaged against bark as insects are wont to do.

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