Hi Tweets

Deborah Wisti-Peterson writes:

>i have been wondering which species of bird did you see first in 1998?

A partial albino Black-capped Chickadee with a round white area atop the
crown, like a bald-spot or a halo or a Yellow-rumped Warbler hat.

>what significance do you think
>this sighting has for your new year (if you saw a french fry bird as
>your first sighting, perhaps you might think this means that 1998
>will be a mundane sort of year)?

Well, it is a common species, but with cats and merlins around and an
incoming jolt of Arctic air arriving at the coast this afternoon (it's
winter, finally! And the first swallows due back in only a few weeks!), the
little mite likely has enough on its mind just finding enough to eat and
staying warm and safe. Even if I knew how to break the news gently, finding
out it's mundane might finish it.

Michael Price A brave world, Sir,
Vancouver BC Canada full of religion, knavery and change;
mprice at mindlink.net we shall shortly see better days.
Aphra Behn (1640-1689)