And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
My Mom had some chickadees fairly well trained, whenever they saw her on the back deck they would make a beeline right over and sit on the railing while she put little piles of seeds right next to them.
Towhee?
ReplyDeleteSpotted towhees have an all black hood, like an executioner.
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They're easy to ID because when they fly away from you the white corners of their tails are hard to miss. Very distinctive.
I'm not an ornithologist but I play one in my back yard.
Spotted pardalote.
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He comes from a land down under, where women glow and men plunder
Cantcha hear the thunder!!
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ReplyDeleteMy Mom had some chickadees fairly well trained, whenever they saw her on the back deck they would make a beeline right over and sit on the railing while she put little piles of seeds right next to them.
ReplyDeleteA little dinosaur!
ReplyDeleteSlicker than snot on a doorknob, LOL. Amazing that he sits in the persons hand. Beutiful thing.
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