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<B><BIG>Newsletter of the Altacal Audubon Society, serving Butte county and
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<TD><BIG><B>UP FROM THE EGG. THE CONFESSIONS OF A NUTHATCH AVOIDER</B> -
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<PRE> Birdwatchers top my honors list.
I aimed to be one, but I missed.
Since I'm both myopic and astigmatic,
My aim turned out to be erratic,
And I bespectacled and binocular,
Exposed myself to comment jocular.
We don't need to know much birdlore, do we,
To tell a flamingo from a towhee;
Yet I cannot, and never will,
Unless the silly birds stand still.
And there's no enlightenment so obscure
As ornithological literature.
Is yon strange creature a common chickadee,
Or a migrant from Picardy?
You rush to consult your Nature guide
And inspect the gallery inside,
But a bird in the open never looks
Like its picture in the birdie books--
Or if it did, it has changed its plumage,
And plunges you back into ignorant gloomage.
That is why I sit here growing old by inches,
Watching the clock instead of finches,
But sometimes I visualize in my gin
The Audubon I audabin."
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