Message from Sacha on Tue, 27 Feb
2007 07:18:04 Garden Birds:

Did you see the press photographs of the blackbird that is pied? It's
not
an albino and it doesn't just have a fleck here or there, it's genuinely
pied. Apparently, hopes are not high for its survival because it is so
conspicuous. I would add to that my fear/belief that its own kind will
kill
it.

When I was a lad we had one in the neighbourhood that was around for years,
he was so distinctive.

We used to have a sparrow with a white bar to the lower part of one wing.
He looked just as if he was carrying a newspaper tucked under his wing and
we called him The Times Reader.

We presently have a robin with a light pinkish breast. Surprisingly, it
has a mate!

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