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This goose has a nest in the very empty Circuit City parking lot.

She thought I was stepping to her and her eggs and started doing that hissing thing and so I apologized for the intrusion and went on my way and that is the end of this story THE END.

Or, practicing mah manual focus skills on some birds outside the Esquire:

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Downtown Champaign:

If I was a bird, mama, I would find a nest in the heart of town
Lord, you know I’d build it in the heart of town
So when the town get lonesome, I’d be bird nest bound

Hooray for the weather finally cooperating! I was going nuts not having a chance to try out the new lens.

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The other day I saw a Cedar Waxwing. Actually, about eight of them, feasting on the berries of a nearby tree. A-anne saw them the day before, and got a picture:

I wanted to get my own, but could not find my zoom lens. I had to settle for the camera in my Mind.

Later that very same day—so much later it was actually night—I saw a screech owl up in another nearby tree. I can’t do the normal owl call, so I got its attention by making high pitched fart sounds. It was really cute, until it clawed my eyes out. (That’s how this story would have ended if I didn’t stop making those sounds!)

…and I said OK. At one point there were a couple dozen of them wanting to be my friend, but I had to draw the line somewhere.