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jhetley ([personal profile] jhetley) wrote2018-12-25 02:54 pm

You have to look twice

Out for a walk this afternoon (brr) and saw what I thought was a mockingbird in a known mockingbird territory. It landed in a bare bush about six feet away, and I didn't realize until I was about two houses further along the street that the body feathers weren't quite right and it had a heavy, hooked bill. Northern shrike.