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Thursday, November 29th, 2012 04:49 pm
Christine recommends talking to friend Twit re the learned aversion and that i should question the learned aversion.

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Cloudy. Only coots by the back water feature. My vague memory was that there were gulls as well neat the water feature during the last storm.

Hmm, if i word mined this entry based on the #perpetual calendar tag, would i think gulls were present.

As i left, i saw a flock of male and female hooded mergansers (Tribe Mergini, Lophodytes cucullatus). In the dim light, my phone did not get a particularly good image, but it's good enough to note crests on the males raised and lowered. I am embarrassed that all that registered for me was the big white patch so i thought "buffleheads!" without reflecting that they were fairly large ducks and had the longer bodies of a merganser.

Mergansers are dramatic birds, i think.

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Packing. I hate all my clothes. I feel exhausted, but i need to get the minimal kit together. I am being picked up by a friend at 4:50 am tomorrow. Oy.
Friday, November 30th, 2012 02:02 am (UTC)
Agreed about mergansers. And as for a 4:50 pickup: yeah, that hurts.