oakenguy | (no subject)

You might think that the best sort of competition is the one where the other player doesn't even know they're playing.

You'd think that...until you consistently realize you're losing.

My sister and I both love birds. It's the one thing that's bred true down four generations of my family. And here's the thing: as sure as night follows day, whenever I tell my sister about a neat sighting, she comes back with one that totally blows me out of the water.

December.
ME: I saw a bald eagle on the drive up here, no more than fifty feet away, just perched on a branch by the side of I-95!
SISTER: Oh neat! Yeah, we see them sometimes along the river. Hey, notice these tracks in the snow?
ME: The big ones? All over your front yard?
SISTER: Yeah, wild turkeys! They like to come and hang out under the birdfeeder.

May.
ME: Oh hey, check out this blurry picture--there's a pair of orioles living near the house! We think they have a nest over by the geese!
SISTER: Oh, awesome! Hey, speaking of nest, look up.
ME: Are those....robins? Baby robins? In a nest a foot away from your bedroom window?
SISTER: I know! They're so cute!

So now it's June, and thanks to a visitor last week I'm armed with this picture:

And I'm going to send it to her, and I know, I just KNOW when I do I'm going to get a photo back in fifteen minutes of her hand-raising a dodo chick, along with a "Hey, turns out they're not extinct after all! And they can talk! Who knew? LOL! :) " note.

Or maybe I overthink things.

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If it's any consolation - that hawk photo is very cool! Cooler than a hand-fed dodo even! :)

You *need* to find the Dilbert cartoon in "habits of Defective People" where Dilbert and Dogbert go birding...

Edited 2008-06-27 15:05 (UTC)

I was going to mention something about wild penguins, but the dodo chick is better.

Awesome pic.

Question is, what is it eyeing in your house? Surely not Toby?

Fortunately, it's my office! Probably the condition of my desk looked a lot like a messy nest after a windstorm.

Wow, is that outside your house window, or outside an office window? Either way, totally cool! Redtail?

Redtail, yah! Office window--I'm told there's a nest over in the Fens, and they really like perching on the ledges around our part of Boylston St.

Kewl hawk picture!

(Sorry, this is the only bird userpic I have :-))

There's a follow-up that icon joke with a cat joining them and saying, "There's a trend here, I just know it..."

Would you like me to look up some bird stuff around Plymouth for you and your lovely wife tomorrow?

Ooo, nice offer! I think we'll have enough to do, though.

lol. great story

Let us know if she is, 'cause that would be nifty.

Yay! Awesome Red Tail pic! He came and visited you! Nice!

Looks like this year's baby, must have been curious and a little tired from flying lessons. It was looking for a cookie :D

Oh beautiful!! I'm so jealous. I desperately want to own hawks someday...

Oh, hee! I hope you win this time. One needs to come out ahead every now and then. That's an awesome pic, too. :)