1 This sense of "charged" might just be that crackling electrical wire working its way subliminally into my brain.
2 I have vague ornithological inclinations, but I can't quite manage to concern myself with the distinctions among that flitty sub-genre: Little Brown Birds (LBBs), the ones that are everywhere, all having slightly varying combinations of brown and gray. Maybe someday…a
4 I've had that song stuck in my head recently. Though the my brain doesn't have the lyrics quite right and keeps on, in some background process, rearranging combinations of words until the rhymes incrementally fall into place.
2 I have vague ornithological inclinations, but I can't quite manage to concern myself with the distinctions among that flitty sub-genre: Little Brown Birds (LBBs), the ones that are everywhere, all having slightly varying combinations of brown and gray. Maybe someday…a
a Ooh! I just saw my woodpecker buddy! Now that's a variety I recognize. (And ooh! Look at me get all fancy with my sub-footnote syntax. I've been reading David Foster Wallace again. Talk about a guy with complex footnotes.)3 The weather report would tell me, but for the moment, I'm enjoying my uncertainty.
4 I've had that song stuck in my head recently. Though the my brain doesn't have the lyrics quite right and keeps on, in some background process, rearranging combinations of words until the rhymes incrementally fall into place.
I think they're called "sparrows".
ReplyDeleteMany are indeed sparrows, but the group is slightly broader, including — dunno — wrens and such. My ornithological knowledge is limited, but I'd say there a are a number of varies that might fall in the LBB category. (The bounds of this class are, of course, fuzzy.)
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