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 :rose: Hope you have a wonderful day, and a much better year!  :beer: :birthday2:

 :newyearbd: Happy birthday!  :rose:  :3postrule:  :falcon:  :birthday2:

CHIRPY BIRD-DAY, DALE!!

Slainte!

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Happy Birthday Dale!

Have a great birthday Dale! (Three of the five little ones from next door this spring.)

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Super card, NoraH!!

Happy Birthday Dale,   Enjoy the day!!   :bdcake:

I hope you have the happiest of birthdays Dale!

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Happy Birthday good person!

Hope it's a wonderful day! :newyearbd:

A very happy birthday and all good wishes for the coming year.

Mary in Charlotte (NC)

Happy Birthday, Dale!

Happy birthday, Dale!! :happybday: :rose: :rose:

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Thank you SO much for all the wishes!  (Nora, SWALLOWS!)
I got a huge rush translation to do yesterday, and spent the entire day and most of the night working. Will have to reschedule that birthday, maybe in a year or two.

I haven't posted an "urban wildlife" account for years, so here's one --

Sunday I was walking down a shady side street and heard a squirrel utterly BESIDE itself (which I always find hilarious). This, one, however, was about 2/3-scale, underage, sitting on a low branch, absolutely frantic; it wasn't just scolding but barking and clucking and honking and grunting -- apparently trying to express its disapproval as other species as well. At what?

Squirrels direct their scolding at the offender, so I followed the trajectory of its hysteria and found an absolutely enormous fledgling robin on the ground under a bush, next to some porch stairs. I'd say it was "cowering" there, but it wasn't smart or lucid enough to cower. It was dazed. Flummoxed. Maybe it was waiting by the stairs for the UPS man to deliver its red and felt naked without it.
If it had done something to offend that particular squirrel, it didn't remember.
I suspect its very existence was the problem.

Since fledgling robins belong under bushes and adolescent squirrels are always insane, I left them to their business.

Thanks again for the good wishes and a good day to all of you!

I thought of you this weekend Dale, as I always do, when I see that most foreign creature, the groundhog, sauntering across the end of the pedestrian bridge.  Not once, not twice, but three times!  Back and forth, going about its business.  Whatever that might have been.  It seemed to be content and so were the watchers watching it.  So good to hear from you my friend.  Miss you.

Awww loved the fledgling robin and little squirrel story.  Sorry you got a big job on your birthday, but at least you got a chance to check in.  And yes SWALLOWS  :hysterical:

Wish I could have seen that, Carol. I never ever ever see those...and Donna, that is one scary image!!  We do have about a zillion peregrine nests in the city, but none make ginormous dive-bombing eyases.  That chick will ding its bill seriously on the Bean, if it doesn't watch out!

Well, you'll just need to come visit again sometime to see all our critters.  You would love the massive beaver we've been seeing cruising on the river below the pedestrian bridge.  How s/he gets so big on just salad is beyond me.   :wave:

Dale, that is one of the Evanston eyases! Wrigley!!!