Morning’s extremely busy with several things, I have to be out of here with the boys in about fifteen minutes to help L unload some hay, I’m in the middle of a big firewood push, chickens need stuff (they think) desperately, breakfast is burning, and I’m trying to finish washing two pairs of trous so they’ll have time to dry in the weakening sunlight. Weather’s supposed to be coming in and I don’t want to be stuck with an overflowing hamper. One load is better than none even if I have to squeeze it in between bites of breakfast.
Which is why – between the burning and the chickens – the wash water overflowed into the drainage ditch. No big thing, as long as things are working all right well water is cheap, but I consider wasting water a sin.
Not everyone in the neighborhood agrees…
Two flocks of small birds, sparrows and some sort of finch, happened to be in the neighborhood. And they mobbed the place and threw an impromptu kegger. They really didn’t approve of my presence so the best I could do is go inside for the camera, dump some more water in the ditch, wait till they came back, shoot a bunch of stills and then post the least bad one. In all there were several dozen not shown here. Every time I moved even to adjust the camera they flew away.
I see white crowned sparrows, male and female (the males are the purty ones, as it should be). Yeah, nobody likes a know-it-all. I just fed a flock of them migrating out. See them most of the year.
“There is a peculiar notion that elegant plumage and fine feathers are not proper for the male, when actually this is the way things are in most species.”
Extra credit for source identification.
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Kentucky: Darwin or that other guy that nobody can remember who had a similar theory? Wallace? I’m guessing ‘cuz googling is cheating.
Not even in the same ballpark.
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🙂 I cheated and looked it up.
Which saved me a bit of embarrassment, because I was going to opine that it sounded like something Heinlein might say. But he didn’t.
Males and females of this species look alike.,the ones with the brown instead of black on their heads aren’t females, they’re this years young, so…we can still like you Unclezip