Identifying birds via books

[jwg]

As I've mentioned before, I'm not too good (or interested) in identifying birds by books. Yesterday while having cocktails on the porch, we saw a strange bird in a tree - it looked a bit like a young feathery duck but probably was something else. I went to check to see how old my bird books were. My Peterson (my mother's) is a 1947 and as we all

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[rsc]

it looked a bit like a young feathery duck but probably was something else.

It didn't look anything like a duck -- it had a long pointy bill. While jwg was looking for old bird books I got out my relatively new Sibley guide; of course by the time I got back out on the porch the bird had left, but it was most likely a young black-crowned night heron.

[bearfuz]

I find the date on the receipt to be especially auspicious!!

[jwg]

Oh!

My email notification of comments doesn't work so I just noticed this.