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From: Blinky the Shark <no.s...@box.invalid>

Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 13:50:10 -0700

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Subject: Re: PING tony cooper: More Birds

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tony cooper wrote:
> On Tue, 13 May 2008 11:43:52 -0700, Blinky the Shark
> <no.s...@box.invalid> wrote:

>>A while back we exchanged some pelican images.

>>Got any ducks?

>>http://blinkynet.net/blinkyshots/sentry.jpg

>>His attention may be focused in the wrong direction -- a possible example
>>of why ducks rarely succeed in the military.

As contrasted to bird colonels, anyway.

> No ducks, but here's a pair of Sandhill Cranes that were blocking the
> road as I left my house a couple of days ago. Shot from the car
> window and not much in the way of good pictures, but I was in a hurry.
> They're about 4' tall.

> http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f244/cooper213/md005.jpg
> http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f244/cooper213/md008.jpg

What purpose-built bodies those are. It's hard for a wading bird to not
look like a wading bird.

Is that the edge of a city park? Golf course?

I remember when I was a boy in the Midwest my father pointing out a crane
flying high overhead and saying that it was carrying its fishing poles --
referring to its long legs, trailing parallel, behind it.

I got this a couple weeks ago. I love the graceful loop the head and beak
complete. It also reminds me of one of those magnetic "cause" ribbons I
see on cars and such.

http://blinkynet.net/blinkyshots/flamingo.jpg

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