On Tue, 28 Jul 1998 Dyannesh at aol.com wrote:

> At home with a bad back has allowed me some 'residential' birding that I don't
> often get...and I observed a young robin, two days in a row (assuming it was
> the same bird) carefully swiping a slug in the dry dirt of the garden. Over
> and over again, in what appeared to be a clear effort to remove the slime from
> same....this went on for nearly five full minutes each time, afterwhich said
> slug was consumed by said robin.

Standard recipe, isn't it? "Roll meat in bread crumbs, or in
clean soil if no crumbs are available. Garnish with grass and
miscellaneous seeds. Consume raw."

Burt Guttman guttmanb at elwha.evergreen.edu
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