While Shoveling Snow...
... a blue jay...
Links:
“Naturalist thinks blue jays don’t deserve the bad rap” [Appleton Wisconsin Post Crescent]
Blue jay overview [Cornell Lab of Ornithology] [Wikipedia]
“Bird watching has surged in popularity during the pandemic” [NYT]
Elsewhere:
“I first wrote this essay for The New York Times when my children were still children and I was still married.” John Horgan shares an essay on Scientific American: “A winter solstice ritual helps a faithless science writer appreciate life’s infinite improbability.”
Cookie Monster Mystery Mural. “The guy paid me and he paid me pretty well,” Mr. Hawkins said. “So I’m not mad at all about that.” Via Chris Duffy. [NYT]
“saw this picture of the new 1980s american girl doll and for one brief and beautiful moment i thought her name was Bourtney” [Twitter/markpopham]
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For real laugh out loud because of the blue jay being a jerk... and then BOURTNEY!
I grew up in the Midwest with blue jays, and have the similar Seller’s Jays here in Oregon. Both of these jays carry their ‘five’ acorns in their crop (pouch-like bag in their upper throat) and in their beak. I’ll look for that illustration in a future “Links.”