Subject: [Tweeters] The Bird That Wasn't
Date: Dec 7 03:06:05 2011
From: Russell - rrogers at olypen.com
I've always called them S'not Birds.
S'not a bird, must be something else.
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On Dec 7, 2011, at 1:56 AM, Wendy Thuring wrote:
> As long as we?re having confession time here, I?ll add my bird that wasn?t.
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> Several years ago when I first moved to the Bremerton/Seattle area I remember driving along I-5 in the Tacoma / Fife area and passing that outfit that sells the manufactured homes on the left hand side as your heading north. It?s right around the Emerald Queen Casino on your left, and before the car dealership across the highway on the right. This place has a nice big blue sign next to the highway and perched on top was a Great Horned Owl. I just knew it! I had seen it with my own eyes. I couldn?t have been more excited! I even turned the car around so I could go take a look at this owl perched along the I-5. I was even more delighted to see the GHO in the exact same place the next morning when I began my new job up in Seattle and started the daily morning commute. Surely this GHO wouldn?t still be there on the way home?.. But there it was!! Perched in the exact same spot on that big blue sign along I-5!! Imagine that!
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> Some of you know exactly where and what I?m talking about and you are probably having a good laugh as you read this. (Laughter is the best medicine after all). But?. For those of you who don?t know, it turns out that the GHO constantly perched in the same place on that big blue sign was nothing more than a decoy to prevent other birds from landing on the sign and ?marking? it with their droppings. It took a few days, but I figured it out. : )
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> Wendy
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