Out by the river last night Natasha saw a bird with a red spot on it’s wing and asked me what it was. Being an expert ornithologist, I had no idea, so I stalled and told her it was a Cardinal. Except it was clearly not a Cardinal, it was a Red-Winged Blackbird. So she punched me.
Then, no more than 50 feet around the bend, up in a tree was an actual Cardinal. Not very difficult to spot, since it’s redder than a fire truck. I told her it was a Parrot.
Of course I wasn’t carrying my camera, so you get this artistic re-interpretation of the event.
(Edit: Kudos to Terri, a legitimate expert ornithologist club member, for pointing out my naming error – it was in fact not a red-breasted blackbird, and I knew that, but surfing through the bird directories on Wikipedia had me bird-brained.)
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1 Terri // May 9, 2009 at 12:57 pm
Don’t you mean Red-WINGED Blackbird, Mr. Ornithologist?
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