For a couple days in October there were a lot of Common Grackles on the big tree outside our building. The shiny, purple-headed, yellow-eyed blackbirds were on every branch making their typical cacophony of squeaky gate calls. As it was migration season, they soon all vanished… except for the deranged one. The Deranged Grackle hadContinue reading “Latest from Book of Birds: “The Deranged Grackle””
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Latest from Book of Birds: “We Wanted It to Be Something Else”
We went out on the trail hoping to find birds we’d never found before. “What if we see a California Condor?” I said. “What if we see a Bohemian Waxwing?” she said. “What if we see an Orange Bishop?” “Wait, what’s that one again?” “It’s the one from the documentary about things only found inContinue reading “Latest from Book of Birds: “We Wanted It to Be Something Else””
Jonathan Bluebird Montgomery 