by Anura Guruge
on March 13, 2024
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It was VERY LOUD. I could hear it in the shower (even with the water running).
I first thought that it was ‘peepers‘ (i.e., baby frogs) but I didn’t think we could have that many, to make such a racket, in our backyard since it is not wetlands.
Appears it was birds. All I could see were crows, i.e., black birds. Didn’t sound like them.
I need to find out more. Wanted to share. It is raucous.
by Anura Guruge
on June 25, 2023
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This is in a cute garden, tended by a rather famous, now long retired orthopedic surgeon, in ‘Alton‘ — about 3/4 mile from my place. He put it up this week.
It cracked me up. Nothing, but nothing, from with a blackface scarecrow. Perfectly kosher.
But, I just worry about the local crows.
I am the ONLY NON-WHITE person they normally see — & I, as some of you have worked out, is not black. Just a dark, dirty brown — with a suntan on top of that.
They definitely have no exposure to black people this far north. I kid YOU NOT.
So, I am curious if this scarecrow will work. Poor crows. You shouldn’t confuse them such.