birds
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One morning, you take yourself out on your morning walk and notice the birders have descended. Their telescopic lenses are trained on a cluster of black-brown-white birds squabbling on the ice in the far distance. You squint, you can’t tell what they are. Hawks, maybe? Geese, you guess? ‘Tis the season, but the shape is…
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Back in January, I coalesced to my partner and agreed to a pet I never gave much of a thought to keeping: birds. So, in the midst of a brutal cold snap (-10F), we went and acquired two parakeets from Petco. I know nothing about birds, about keeping birds, about bird breeders. I trusted him…
from the pen of icarus blake 