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Fox Sparrow

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Wednesday, March 2, 2011

This beautiful little guy was my first new bird of the year and I got him on New Year’s Day. A fine start to the year, I think. When he first hopped out of the underbrush and I saw that chest, I thought maybe it was some kind of thrush but that head is all sparrow. And what a sparrow. Who could refer to this guy as a LBJ, a little brown job? Just look at all that red. This really is an exceptionally good-looking  sparrow. JK

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It Seemed Like A Good Idea…

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Tuesday, December 14, 2010,

It seemed like a good idea. Just take this one bug from one jar and put it into another. Never mind that it was a tarantula in a jar marked “Cobalt Blue – Fast and aggressive.” Cobalt Blues, I learned, prefer a vertical environment as they like to live in tunnels beneath the ground, coming up for dinner as needed. Before he could be moved, however, he needed to be dug out of his old digs


Then it was just a matter of tipping him from the old jar into the new one.


Sometimes the best laid plans…well, you know.

He’s supposed to be inside that jar. Whoops.


And so it goes. Another adventure at Sweetbriar. It should be noted that I did nothing here but take photographs. Any stories alleging that I screamed like a girl are completely unfounded. I was already across the county line when this guy hit the floor. JK

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