Greensboro Birds

Just saw this Owl pellet dissection kit ($8) in the Apartment section on Urban Outfitters’ website. Comes with a pellet, “dissection tools” (really, a couple of toothpicks), and a bone chart. No mention of which owl species coughed these up, but they’re “Made in the USA,” so that narrows it down a little. You can [...]

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Why am I so bummed about Radaronline.com’s folding over the demise of all the other pubs I worked for? Because I’ll miss all of these people, too. Leave it to Balk of all people to say such nice things that made me cry. And I’m not a big crybaby, except during Jane Austen movie adaptations [...]

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Back to the birds at hand. Still waiting for the juncos to arrive, but we’ve got white-throated sparrows to spare. In fact, the underbrush was swarming with white-throats during this evening’s dog promenade. Here’s the little Sam Peabody that inspired Josh’s latest bird illo. We’ve had three frosty mornings, so apparently summer is not [...]

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I completely identify with Angela Lansbury. Seems like I’m always in smelling distance of whatever publication drops dead on any given day. (Hm, let’s scan my resume/magazine obituary, shall we? Mademoiselle? Dead. Child? Killed. Budget Living? Ditto. Teen People, Cargo, Golf for Women, Muscle & Fitness Hers, Sly? I know, right?!?) Today brings the not [...]

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It’s official: Greensboro Birds has jumped aboard the Sam Peabody bandwagon. We’re flexing our mighty muscles of endorsement in support of Sam Peabody, founder and sole representative of the White-throated Sparrow Party. It’s high time we elect a candidate with dual citizenship (in Sam’s case, U.S. and Canada), who understands both foreign policy and national [...]

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